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Chicago's earliest surviving building, the Henry B. Clarke House (built c. 1836) is on the Near South Side, close to the Prairie Avenue District of residential Chicago architecture. Architect Louis Sullivan's work is represented by the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, and Auditorium Building.
Her sisters likewise married traders—Sheshi Chevalier married Louis Buisson who traded and farmed near what became Peoria, Illinois, Josette Chevalier married Jean Baptiste Beaubien and Catherine Chevalier married Alexander Robinson who learned the fur trade from Joseph Bailly at St. Joseph, Michigan, alongside Beaubien and would later settle ...
"The Transformation of Higher Education in the 1960s: Master Plans, Community Colleges, and Emerging Universities," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101 (Summer 2008), 177–92. Teaford, Jon C. (1993). Cities of the heartland: The rise and fall of the industrial Midwest. Indiana University Press.; strong on Chicago and St Louis.
Prairie Avenue was the most posh Chicago address by the time of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. [11] 1871 Map of Chicago: The shaded area was destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire. Many of South Michigan Avenue's elegant villas were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. [13]
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (You of Chicago Press, 2002) online on summer 1995. Klinenberg, Eric. "Denaturalizing disaster A social autopsy of the 1995 Chicago heat wave," Theory and Society (1999) 28: 239–295, online; Koehler, Gottfried. Annals of health and sanitation in Chicago (1919) online excerpts from primary ...
United States historic place Prairie Avenue District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district Chicago Landmark The John J. Glessner House by Henry Hobson Richardson is located within the Prairie Avenue District. Show map of Chicago metropolitan area Show map of Illinois Location Chicago, Illinois Coordinates 41°51′26″N 87°37′19″W / 41.85722°N 87.62194 ...
The Northwest Chicago Historical Society's official website; Chicago History Archived January 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine and other overlooked elements at Forgotten Chicago; Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey English translations of 120,000 pages of news articles from the foreign language press from 1855 to 1938. Digital Research ...
Fire on the prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the politics of race (Holt, 1992, ISBN 0-8050-2698-3) Rocksborough-Smith, Ian. Black public history in Chicago: Civil rights activism from World War II into the Cold War (U of Illinois Press, 2018). Rocksborough-Smith, Ian. "Margaret T.G. Burroughs and Black Public History in Cold War Chicago".