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Chicago newspaper popular in the latter half of the nineteenth-century founded in 1854. The paper was originally published in the fifth story of the McCormick Block, on the corner of Randolph and Dearborn streets. The circulation was but little over…

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.

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.

A portrait artist draws a woman, seated left, as a crowd watches behind the artist in Jazz Alley at 50th and Langley in Chicago

Plate 137 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. View of the Proposed Development in the Center of the City, from Twenty-Second Street to Chicago Avenue, Looking Towards the East Over the Civic Center to Grant Park and Lake Michigan, 1907

Chicago's fine arts have long languished in the shadow of the city's architectural riches, but their time has finally come, most prominently as the focus of the final major exhibition at Chicago's Terra Museum of American Art. The attendant catalog…

Chess Records was a Chicago based music record label primarily blues, rhythm, soul music, gospel music, early rock and roll, and jazz. The label was founded by Polish brothers Leonard and Phil Chess and eventually was sold off to Universal Music…

1914 portrait of Jane Addams, social worker and founder of Hull House in Chicago.

A photograph of the Granada Theater in Rogers Park, Chicago, demolished in 1990.

A photograph of the auditorium in the Granada Theater, demolished in 1990.