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Chicago History Museum discussion of 1970s rock music in Chicago, with an emphasis on the bands Chicago and Styx.

Daniel H. Burnham was the founder of Burnham and Root, one of Chicago's most prominent architectural firms, and the Director of Works on the World's Columbian Exposition. He also designed many of the city's most impressive buildings, including the…

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

A website that features encyclopedia entries, essays, maps, statistics, and digitized primary sources for all of the above.

Field Museum of Natural History and its collections originated from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and is now one of the largest such museums in the world. The Field Museum is also an example of classical revival.

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.

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.

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…

A colorized photograph portraying the interior lobby of the Hotel Atlantic in Chicago, Ill. on the front of a postcard.