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Recommended Chicago History Links

A large amount of information related to the history of Chicago is available on the internet. The accuracy and analysis of this information, however, varies from web site to web site. Among the most useful and reliable of these web sites are the following:

For a more comprehensive listing of Chicago history web sites, refer to the Extended List of Chicago History Links or click on one of the subject headings below:

  · General Chicago History
· Famous Chicagoans
· Major Events
· Organizations and Institutions
· Popular Culture and Fine Arts
· Business and Industry
· Transportation
  · Architecture
· Lost Landmarks
· Extant Landmarks
· History-Related Museums
· Libraries and Archives
· Other Jazz Age Cities
· Archived Links
 






Page authored: 1 July 2005


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· Randi Storch, Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928-35 (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2008)

· Robert Lewis, Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008)

· Karen Abbott, Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul (Random House, 2008)

· Michael Lesy, Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties (Norton, 2008)

· Davarian L. Baldwin, Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2007)

· Georg Leidenberger, Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor And the Bid for Public Streetcars (Northern Illinois Univ. Press, 2006)

· Jeffery S. Adler, First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920 (Harvard Univ. Press, 2006)


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