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Sue the T. Rex is the largest, most extensive and best preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex specimen ever found at over 90% recovered by bulk. It was discovered in the summer of 1990, by Sue Hendrickson, a paleontologist, and was named after her. The fossil…

In the mid-1890s, the West Park Commissioners installed a cast-iron fountain in Wicker Park. The fountain had an a cut granite outer basin with finials and floral urns. Produced by J.L. Mott Ironworks Company, the two-tiered fountain featured foliage…

The Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance was founded in 1998, 90 years after the building the Conservatory in 1908, in the aftermath of a hail storm that greatly damaged the building.

Photograph showing aerial view of Wrigley Field and surrounding areas, Taken in Chicago, Illinois, April 26, 1951.

Acrylic painting of woman with red hair in a yellow shirt on jagged Plexiglas in frame painted by the artist.

White button with text reading "ON TO CHICAGO" and red arrow pointing upward. Made and distributed by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam in the weeks leading up to the Democratic National Convention of 1968 to advocate for…

The Daily News was founded in 1875 and began publishing early the next year. It was the first one-cent newspaper published in Chicago. It strove for mass readership. The purpose was to establish a paper the price of which should be the lowest unit of…

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

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

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