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The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) is an encyclopedic art museum located in Chicago's Grant Park. It features a collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in its permanent collection. Its holdings also include American art, Old…

Hotel Showgirl Polly Parrot serves two ogling men drinks at Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel on February 2, 1944.

The Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago, Illinois in the United States that opened on May 30, 1930.

Documents the research and physical labor involved in the creation of Judy Chicago's The dinner party, a monumental tribute to the women of spirit and accomplishments through the ages.

A digital version of the Plan of Chicago, the first city plan in the United States. Designed by Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett, two prominent Chicago architects, it laid out a series of projects meant to improve and beautify the city through a…

Portrait of Lucy Parson, 1920s anarchist

Map featuring color codes representing distribution of different ethnicities within the neighborhoods bounded by Polk St. and 12th St. in the Near West Side of Chicago.

A crowded street full of vendors at the Maxwell Street Market

A view of Maxwell and Halsted Streets during the Maxwell Street Market opening.

Mausoleum housing Charles Gates Dawes, Vice President to President Coolidge.