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Chicago and the Midwest

19th Century, Activities, High School, Lesson Plans, Middle School

Nineteenth-Century Currency

$1 bank note with illustrations (clockwise from top) of industrious white farmers, stateman Daniel Webster, and three Indigenous people.

Hilary Mac Austin
November 18, 2024

20th Century, Classroom Materials, Lesson Plans, Middle School

Black Childhood and the Great Migration

Hand-colored portrait of seven young Black men in basketball uniforms. Another Black man stands in the back row wearing a suit. The young man sitting in the front holds a basketball with the text "YMCA Champs 1921."

Dr. Michael Hines & Alexandrea Henry, Stanford University
September 12, 2024

20th Century, Classroom Materials, Lesson Plans, Middle School

Black Labor and the Great Migration

Chart in a printed book showing the percentages of white and Black workers employed in different industries in 1930. Substantially larger percentages of Black men and women work in semi-skilled and unskilled jobs than white men and women. The difference is more pronounced for women, because 55.7% of Black women work as servants.

Dr. Michael Hines & Alexandrea Henry, Stanford University
September 12, 2024

20th Century, Classroom Materials, Lesson Plans, Middle School

The Black Church and the Great Migration

Large, multi-story stone church on a residential streetcorner.

Dr. Michael Hines & Alexandrea Henry, Stanford University
September 12, 2024

17th Century, Activities, Middle School

Mapping Early America: Peoples, Animals, and Environments

Dr. Danielle Alesi
May 28, 2024

17th Century, Classroom Materials, High School, Lesson Plans, Middle School

Early European Travel in Illinois: Land, Animals, and the Environment

Engraved illustration of a bison standing in a wooded landscape with a stork or pelican and an opossum nearby.

Dr. Danielle Alesi
May 28, 2024

19th Century, 20th Century, Activities, Elementary School

Population Growth in Chicago

Elevated view of a city neighborhood showing rows of tightly packed two-and-three story houses with a church and many industrial smoke stacks on the horizon.

Kathleen Thompson
May 2, 2023

20th Century, Classroom Materials, High School, Lesson Plans, Middle School

Blockbusting

Single page of cursive text in pencil. The text describes the author's experiences and advocates for better housing access for African Americans in Chicago

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
December 16, 2022

19th Century, Classroom Materials, Lesson Plans, Middle School

The Hull House Neighborhood

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
June 25, 2021

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Riots and Protest: Chicago’s Legacy of Conflict

Dr. Rachel Boyle, Omnia History
December 2, 2020

19th Century, Collection Essays

Chicago after the Great Fire

Ginger Frere, MLIS, MBA
February 5, 2020

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Migration and the Midwest

Rachel Boyle, PhD
June 25, 2019