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An architectural summary of the Rookery Building, a historical skyscraper in the Loop.

Stoneware vase, c. 1917-1932

A 1905 photograph of boys ice skating in Lincoln Park

Frank Moy (called King of Chinatown), leaning against a desk in a room, surrounded by a group of men

Image of Mexican immigrants working with sickles to cut weeds along the side of a road outside of Chicago, Illinois. Power lines on tall wooden poles extend in the distance behind the workers.

Image of a fountain created with relics from the 1871 Chicago fire. The fountain was built in the yard of Mrs. W.M. Scudder located on North Michigan Avenue (formerly at 674 Lincoln Parkway) in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois.

Harry Truman hold up Chicago Daily Tribune with a headline erroneously declaring Thomas Dewey the winner.

Frontpage of the Chicago Daily Tribune from November 28, 1934 detailing the death of famous Chicago gangster Baby Face Nelson

Two articles clipped from the Chicago Defender and saved in a scrapbook: "This Girl Band is Much Too Much with Swing and Jitter" and "Sweethearts."