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A pictorial and editorial history of early Chicago.
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Chicagology - Chicago Tunnel Company
Learn all about a 60 mile underground railroad that operated with 146 locomotives and 3000 freight cars 40 feet below the streets of downtown Chicago.
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German Culture on the Skids: How World War I Changed German Culture in America
Article by Rickie Lazzerini. Chicago, the most German city in America at the time of the First World War, hosted a plethora of German-language newspapers and clubs. Because of this, Chicago, and other parts of Illinois, became a hotbed of anti-German sentiment. Germaniphobia went beyond place name changes and took on a violent and sinister tone when Robert Prager, a German immigrant who was thought to be disloyal, was hanged by a mob in Collinsville, Illinois. The state of Illinois provides a small-scale setting to witness how the war led to the downfall of German culture in America.
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From the Chicago History Museum, The Newberry Library, and Northwestern University.
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Over 120 oral histories of families and activists displaced or connected to former Latino immigrant residents of the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. It is not only a genealogical migration into the community, especially of the first Puerto Rican immigrants to Chicago; it is also the birthplace of the Young Lords Latino civil and human rights movement. The interviews are online and archived at special collections in the Grand Valley State University Library.
