Below are some general resources for
exploring the South Side in history. The links above will lead you to
additional resources on the history of the South Side.
Black Chicago Online
"Chicago
Bibliography." The Chicago Public Library's listing
of their holdings dealing with Chicago history and the following topics: General
Histories, Bibliographical Directories, General Politics, Mayors, Neighborhoods,
Sports, Ethnic Groups, The African American Experience, and Special Topics
(which includes Chicago 1968, The Haymarket, Housing, Jane Addams and Hull
House.
"Chicago
Collections at the Chicago Public Library"
Chicago History
Links
Chicago Historical Society
Virtual
Chicagoland has a historical overview of the city.
The Vivian
G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature at the Woodson Library is the largest African American history and
literature collection in the Midwest.
Photographs
from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933: a collection of
glass negatives held by the Chicago Historical Society. This collection
comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on
glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the
Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading
newspapers. The photographs illustrate the enormous variety of topics and events
covered in the newspaper, although only about twenty
percent of the images in the collection were published in the newspaper. Most of
the photographs were taken in
Chicago
,
Illinois
, or in nearby towns, parks, or athletic fields. In addition to many Chicagoans,
the images include politicians, actors, and other prominent people who stopped
in
Chicago
during their travels and individual athletes and sports teams who came to
Chicago
. Also included are photographs illustrating the operations of the Chicago Daily
News itself and pictures taken on occasional out-of-town trips by the Daily
News's photographers to important events, such as the inauguration of presidents
in
Washington
,
D.C.
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