Chicago Defined: Space and Place, Homes and Journeys
How have writers and artists portrayed the city of Chicago? How did they respond to the city’s changing population and character during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?
Chicago and the Midwest
1893: Chicago and the World’s Columbian Exposition
What did visitors to the World’s Columbian Exposition experience? How did the Exposition’s White City compare to the actual city of Chicago?
Subversives in the City: Responses to Political Radicalism in Chicago
What is the history of political radicalism in Chicago from the 1880s through the 1950s? How did the government and the public respond to radical movements?