CPS DATABASES
Though all CPS databases are available for student use, these are recommended for this assignment. Some databases require username/password that can be attained from a librarian.
Student Resources in Context: A fully integrated database for high school containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, essays, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and audio and video clips.
Britannica: In addition to millions of articles on as many topics, this online encyclopedia includes Internet links, journal and magazine articles, teacher resources, timelines, dictionary and atlas resources. Select the appropriate grade level.
Encyclopedia of Chicago: Free, comprehensive reference source of Chicago history.
e CUIP Digital Library: Reference and reading materials specially created in support of the CPS curriculum for teachers and students. You will want to focus on the Chicago collection.
HISTORICAL ARCHIVES
Chicago History Files
Chicago Historical Society presents the stories of some of Chicago's most memorable events such as the fire, the Black Sox, Al Capone, and the 1933 World's Fair.
Chicago Southside
This research archive is part of the Urban Research Workshop (URW), which is analyzing Chicago's Southside black communities, with particular focus on changes in these communities since the early 1990s.
City Sites: Multimedia Essays on Chicago, 1870s-1930s
Explores the meanings and forms of American urbanism in New York and Chicago in the modern period." The essays explore the architecture, leisure, space, and race.
Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930
Chicago Police Department Homicide Record Index chronicling 11,000 homicides in the city from 1870 through 1930.
Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963
History of the life and times of Jane Addams, the history of the social settlement movement and of Hull-House, and the history of the Near West Side neighborhood and its immigrant communities.
Chicago Historical Society presents the stories of some of Chicago's most memorable events such as the fire, the Black Sox, Al Capone, and the 1933 World's Fair.
Chicago Southside
This research archive is part of the Urban Research Workshop (URW), which is analyzing Chicago's Southside black communities, with particular focus on changes in these communities since the early 1990s.
City Sites: Multimedia Essays on Chicago, 1870s-1930s
Explores the meanings and forms of American urbanism in New York and Chicago in the modern period." The essays explore the architecture, leisure, space, and race.
Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930
Chicago Police Department Homicide Record Index chronicling 11,000 homicides in the city from 1870 through 1930.
Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963
History of the life and times of Jane Addams, the history of the social settlement movement and of Hull-House, and the history of the Near West Side neighborhood and its immigrant communities.
PRIMARY SOURCES
Broadcasting in Chicago, 1921-1989
Online museum highlighting the history of TV and radio broadcasting in Chicago; emphasis on the NBC studios at the Merchandise Mart.
Illinois during the Gilded Age: 1866-1896This exhibit presents primary source materials which shed light on major themes in this period's [the Gilded Age in Illinois, 1866-1896] society, politics, and culture.
John H. White: Portrait of Black Chicago
Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer John H. White's images of 1970s Chicago.
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933
This collection comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers.
Online museum highlighting the history of TV and radio broadcasting in Chicago; emphasis on the NBC studios at the Merchandise Mart.
Illinois during the Gilded Age: 1866-1896This exhibit presents primary source materials which shed light on major themes in this period's [the Gilded Age in Illinois, 1866-1896] society, politics, and culture.
John H. White: Portrait of Black Chicago
Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer John H. White's images of 1970s Chicago.
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933
This collection comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers.
REFERENCE
WEBSITES
Chicago: City of the Century
City of the Century chronicles Chicago's dramatic transformation from a swampy frontier town of fur traders and Native Americans to a massive metropolis that was the quintessential American city of the nineteenth century. This accompanying site offers primary sources and special features.
Chicago Women's Liberation Union Herstory Project
Website dedicated to archiving and sharing the history of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU). Articles, essays, biographies, and memoirs document the "role of the CWLU in the movement for women's liberation and social justice.
The Burnham Plan Centennial
The Burnham Plan Centennial celebrates the Bold Plans and Big Dreams that shaped metropolitan Chicago for the past century and challenges the region's communities, leaders and institutions to build on the success of the Burnham Plan.
City of the Century chronicles Chicago's dramatic transformation from a swampy frontier town of fur traders and Native Americans to a massive metropolis that was the quintessential American city of the nineteenth century. This accompanying site offers primary sources and special features.
Chicago Women's Liberation Union Herstory Project
Website dedicated to archiving and sharing the history of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU). Articles, essays, biographies, and memoirs document the "role of the CWLU in the movement for women's liberation and social justice.
The Burnham Plan Centennial
The Burnham Plan Centennial celebrates the Bold Plans and Big Dreams that shaped metropolitan Chicago for the past century and challenges the region's communities, leaders and institutions to build on the success of the Burnham Plan.
OTHER RESOURCES
Chicago Public Library
Chicago History Resource Guide
Illinois Issues: a publication of the University of Illinois Springfield
Illinois Issues magazine is dedicated to providing fresh, provocative analysis of public policy in Illinois. With a specialfocus on Illinois government and politics, the magazine pays close attention to current trends and legislative issues
Resource Guides from the Newberry Library
Chicago Ancestors
Chicago and Midwestern Writers
Chicago Biography and Industry File
Chicago Church and Synagogue Records
Chicago Genealogy
Chicago History
Chicago Neighborhood Guide
Chicago Professions
Chicago History Resource Guide
Illinois Issues: a publication of the University of Illinois Springfield
Illinois Issues magazine is dedicated to providing fresh, provocative analysis of public policy in Illinois. With a specialfocus on Illinois government and politics, the magazine pays close attention to current trends and legislative issues
Resource Guides from the Newberry Library
Chicago Ancestors
Chicago and Midwestern Writers
Chicago Biography and Industry File
Chicago Church and Synagogue Records
Chicago Genealogy
Chicago History
Chicago Neighborhood Guide
Chicago Professions