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

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…

16mm color amateur film featuring footage of Chicago with deadpan commentary. Originally produced to encourage attendance for the 1963 Photographic Society of America conference in Chicago.

This button is a 1 7/16 inch button with a locking pin back. It is a circle white litho button with black text and centered image of Bob Bell as Bozo the Clown. The text says: I Visited Bozo's Curcus WGN-TV, Channel 9.

Black and white photograph of poetry study group members around a table with books, taken in 1942 at the South Side Community Art Center.

Bronze with green patina

The John Hancock Center at its construction was the second tallest building in the world. It is now the 4th tallest skyscraper in Chicago, IL. It's architectural style is Structural Expressionism.

A song detailing a leisurely walk through the great city of Chicago.

Cocktail dress, circa 1955, worn by Mrs. Philip D. Block, Jr., to the Commercial Club of Chicago (founded in 1877) after her husband was made a member. Dress designed by James Galanos (American, 1924-2016). Wool jersey and silk chiffon.

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.