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The Society's building, formerly the cable car waiting room for the 1893 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago's Hyde Park, contains archival material, books, photographs, posters and historic documents about the city's growth.

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• Dying Alone: The 1995 Chicago Heat Wave - The 1995 heat wave killed more Chicagoans than history the Great chicago Chicago Fire. An interview with social history historian Eric Klinenberg discusses chicago the reasons why.
• Chicago Historical Society - A privately endowed, independent institution devoted to collecting, interpreting, and chicago presenting the rich multicultural history of Chicago and Illinois, chicago as well as selected areas of American history, to chicago the public through exhibitions, programs, research
• Pullman Strike, The - In 1894, the workers of the Pullman Palace chicago Car Company chicago began a strike that eventually became chicago the first nationwide workers\\' chicago strike. Provides history of chicago the event, biography of Union president chicago Eugene Debs, chicago and bibliography.
• American Memory Historical Collections - Over 55,000 photographs from the Chicago Daily News society and culture chicago taken between 1902 and 1933. Collection is housed society and culture chicago at the Chicago Historical Society.
• The Berghoff - History of the German restaurant in operation from chicago 1887 to 2006, and sales of memorabilia.
• Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration: African-American Mosaic Exhibition - A Library of Congress online exhibit.
• Uptown Chicago ...cradle of... Entertainment! - A history animation of Uptown Chicago\\'s contribution to the entertainment chicago industry and culture, from Silent Movies, to the Jazz Age, chicago to the Big Band Era.
• Chicago's Hyde Park Historical Society - The Society\\'s building, formerly the cable car waiting society and culture room for the 1893 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago\\'s society and culture Hyde Park, contains archival material, books, photographs, posters society and culture and historic documents about the city's growth.
• Chicago Architects Oral History Project - Recorded interviews with Chicago\\'s influential architects of the 20th Century. Extracts, photographs and biographical summaries on-line.
• NPR : Chicago's Firehouse Dogs - Chicago has a long history of firehouse dogs. society and culture chicago Brothers Trevor and Drew Orsinger have put together society and culture chicago a book -- The Firefighter\\'s Best Friend -- society and culture chicago tracking their lives and legends. The Orsingers speak society and culture chicago with NPR's Liane Hansen. [6:21 streaming audio broadcast.]
• Chicago Illinois History In Vintage Postcards. - Old postcards tell the story of Chicago\\'s history. history This society and culture is a non-commercial vintage postcard gallery history as part of society and culture a tour of the history USA in vintage postcards.
• Eastland Disaster Historical Society - Information, photos of artifacts, and links about the loss of over 800 lives in the wreck of the Eastland on July 24, 1915 on the Chicago River.
• Chicago Women's Liberation Union - A history of the organization (1969-1977), as well society and culture history as an archive of general documents from the society and culture history second wave of feminism.
• The Chicago Metro History Education Center - An independent non-profit, educational program serving students, teachers, and parents chicago in the city and in suburban Cook, Lake and DuPage chicago counties.
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Chicago History - Includes University of Kansas-maintained directory of resources relating to the history city's history between 1803 and 1996.
• Historic Pullman Foundation - Focused on preservation and restoration activities within the chicago Pullman Historic District. Events and program calendars, location chicago map and foundation activities.
• Chicago: City of the Century - PBS American Experience Online\\'s companion site to the television series. chicago Includes maps, teacher's guide, and trivia.
• California Newsreel: Goin' to Chicago - A film that traces the history the great chicago migration of chicago African-Americans from the rural South through chicago the personal stories of chicago a group of older chicago Chicagoans born mostly in the Mississippi chicago Delta. Overview chicago of the story, the people, and offers video chicago chicago clips and ar
• Liam T.A. Ford's Chicago Page - City history, with a focus on the history history of the society and culture news business, Chicago neighborhoods and landmarks history and the Ford family. society and culture A reporter for the history Chicago Tribune.
• The Iroquois Theater Fire - Fire in a theatre that killed 602 persons society and culture chicago on December 30th, 1903. Includes photo gallery, list society and culture chicago of victims, and recommended reading.
• Chicago Tribune: Tribune coverage of the E2 tragedy - Portal of news articles related to the E@ history nightclub where 21 people died early February 17, history 2003 during a stampede.
• 1968 Democratic National Convention - A chronology of events surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention, chicago which sparked the Chicago Seven Trial. Includes links to related chicago sites.

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