![]() ![]() It includes biographical, business, cultural, educational, municipal, recreation, religious, social and transportation source materials. The Chicago City-Wide Collection consists of a wide assortment of manuscript, printed and photographic materials on multiple topics. Increasingly it emphasized its service roles in medicine, higher education, and tourism. Deindustrialization after 1970 closed the Union Stock Yards and most of the steel mills and factories, but the city retained its role as a financial and transportation hub. The Cook County suburbs grew rapidly after 1945. Mexicans started arriving after 1910, and Puerto Ricans after 1945. Large numbers of African Americans migrated from the South starting in the World War I era as part of the Great Migration. The city was also a magnet for European immigrants-at first Germans, Irish and Scandinavians, then from the 1890s to 1914, Jews, Czechs, Poles and Italians. The modern city was incorporated in 1837 by Northern businessmen and grew rapidly from real estate speculation and the realization that it had a commanding position in the emerging inland transportation network, based on lake traffic and railroads, controlling access from the Great Lakes into the Mississippi River basin.ĭespite the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 that destroyed the Central Business District, the city grew exponentially becoming the nation's rail center and the dominant Midwestern center for manufacturing, commerce, finance, higher education, religion, broadcasting, sports, jazz, and high culture. It was destroyed in 1812 following the Battle of Fort Dearborn, rebuilt in 1816, and permanently demolished in 1857. government built Fort Dearborn at what is now the corner of Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive (look for the bronze markers in the pavement). He came here in the 1770s via the Mississippi River from New Orleans with his Native American wife, and their home stood at the mouth of the Chicago River. Seated atop a continental divide, the Chicago region is located at the intersection of several great waterways, leading the area to become the site of travel and healing for many Tribes.Ĭhicago’s first permanent non-indigenous resident was a trader named Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a free Black man from Haiti whose father was a French sailor and whose mother as an African slave. Biographical/HistoricalĬhicago is the traditional homelands of Hoocąk (Winnebago/Ho’Chunk), Jiwere (Otoe), Nutachi (Missouria), and Baxoje (Iowas) Kiash Matchitiwuk (Menominee) Meshkwahkîha (Meskwaki) Asâkîwaki (Sauk) Myaamiaki (Miami), Waayaahtanwaki (Wea), and Peeyankihšiaki (Piankashaw) Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo) Inoka (Illini Confederacy) Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe), Odawak (Odawa), and Bodéwadmik (Potawatomi). In addition, the collection covers the Loop and Downtown areas and contains a wide range of guide and souvenir viewbooks geared toward tourism sketches and images from historical events, especially the Chicago Fire of 1871 a series of Chicago maps dating back to 1835 and several significant maps of Chicago parks, including several 19th century maps for West and South Park Commissions and 134 of 171 maps created as part of a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project in the 1930s. The collection is designed to gather together materials that relate to the city as a whole and to include materials from Chicago communities that fall outside of the Library’s existing neighborhood collection strengths. Updated and reformatted for ArchivesSpace by Michelle McCoy, 2021. Initial Accession: Processed, 1990-1992 by Galen Wilson 2017 by Morag Walsh 2019 by Johanna Russ 2021 by Michelle McCoy. When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is: Chicago City-Wide Collection, Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. ![]() Please consult staff to determine ability to reuse materials from collection. Materials are primarily in English, with a few items in Czech, German, and Spanish. Provenance summary information for Supplements 1-5 is provided in the Immediate Source of Acquisition Note. Givens Collection (Box 9, Folder 24 through Box 10, Folder 31) was transferred to Special Collections from the Sulzer Regional Library in February 1989. Where appropriate, the provenance of individual items has been noted on folders. The Chicago City-Wide Collection comes from a wide range of sources: transfers from other Chicago Public Library branches, libraries across the nation, purchases, and private donations. 43.25 linear feet in 147 boxes, including 152 oversize folders, 1816 photographs, 3 artifactsĬhicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections, 400 S. ![]()
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