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First page of the sheet music for song titled, "The Avenues of Chicago"

Two articles clipped from the Chicago Defender and saved in a scrapbook: "This Girl Band is Much Too Much with Swing and Jitter" and "Sweethearts."

The Sutherland Lounge was a music venue in the Sutherland Hotel that hosted some of the most famous jazz and blues musicians to make it from Chicago

Maxwell Street was famous for it's market and the blues musicians who would play out front of stores and on the corners

Blues song recorded by Muddy Waters

'Fly Me To The Moon' by Frank Sinatra

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…

An mp3 file of the Theme Song for the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair, "In 1933"

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