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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…

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…

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

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

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.

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…

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…

Hand puppet of the character Beulah Witch created by Chicago puppeteer Burr Tillstrom around 1947 for the popular children's television show Kukla, Fran and Ollie.

Portrait of Lucy Parson, 1920s anarchist

The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is a man-made hydrologic connection between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins that was completed in the early 20th century to address sanitation and flooding. Construction of the CSSC allowed the…