Chicago Metro History Fair
Welcome to History Fair at the Chicago Public Library. On these pages you will find helpful sources for your projects, from historical descriptions of people and events to online newspaper articles from the Chicago Tribune back to 1849.
Of particular interest this year are the “ContentDM” pages. Here you will find hundreds of photographs, maps, manuscripts and documents from the Library’s special collections with metadata (detailed descriptions). Highlights include:
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| Photographs of Mayor Harold Washington |
Maps and lithographs of Chicago’s lakefront |
Images from the Chicago Renaissance 1932-1950 |
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| Neighborhood photographs of the North Side |
Construction shots of Millennium Park |
Photographs of buildings of the Chicago Public Library |