Bridgeport Lock Zero
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/LockZero/

An excellent history of the famous Chicago neighborhood, the home of five different mayors. It is well-illustrated with an excellent set of links. No author is named.
(28 Jul 2001)

Chicago Historical Society
http://www.chicagohs.org/

This outstanding site is probably THE prototype for an urban museum web page with archival materials and monograph-quality analyses of the 1872 Chicago fire and Haymarket Riot. There are plenty of other artifacts in addition to the numerous archival and iconographic materials. There is an excellent links page. New online projects include "Teen Chicago", which deals with teen history, and "Studs Terkel: Conversations with America", which includes more than 500 interviews with Terkel conducted over the past 50 years.
(28 Jul 2001; updated 8 Aug 2002)
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News (1902 to 1939)
http://r.vresp.com/?ChicagoHistoricalSoc/0ea76e8d0f/57929/b3d14bb702
This Chicago Historical Society collection of 56,000 photos from the morgue of the Chicago Daily News is presented online in cooperation with the Library of Congress American Memory web site, which provides an excellent search function. Just to give some feeling for its contents, there are 39 photos of Al Capone, 19 of Jane Addams, and 17 on street cleaning. The collection is not confined to Chicago. For example a search under Boston found over 100 images (most of them, to be sure, photos of baseball players).
(8 Jan 2003)

Chicago Imagebase
http://www.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase/

Sensational collection of maps, both historical (including Sanborn Fire Insurance maps) and contemporary assembled at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
(28 Jul 2001; updated 8 Aug 2002)

Chicago Landmarks (by the City of Chicago)
http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/index.html

The Chicago Landmarks Commission of the City of Chicago assembled this easy-to-navigate, beautifully photographed site, that contains interactive maps; tours; a useful style guide; and a database for over 17,000 buildings of historic significance. The building database identifies architects (where possible), and includes descriptions and photos of major buildings. The links page is very limited, with no connections to primarily historical websites.
(28 Jul 2001)

Chicago Public Library: Digital Collections
http://www.chicagopubliclibrary.org/digital/digital.html

Includes online exhibits on Chicago's infrastructure (Down the Drain: History of an Urban Infrastructure); Afro-American culture; and historic photographs of neighborhoods.
(21 Aug 2003)

City Sites: Multimedia Essays On New York And Chicago, 1870s-1930s
http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/citysites/

City Sites is an electronic book edited by Maria Balshaw, Liam Kennedy, Anna Notaro, and Douglas Tallack. It is an inter- and multi-disciplinary study of the iconography, spatial forms and visual and literary cultures of New York and Chicago in the period 1870-1939 with 10 essays including extensive online resources, map pages, bibliography, moving and still images and sound. City Sites is the result of collaborative research by scholars from Europe and the USA in the 3 Cities Project.
(updated 17 Nov 2004; 28 Jul 2001)
See Review of this site done for H-Urban on March 17, 2001, by Peter C. Baldwin, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
See Review of this site done for H-Amstdy on May 17, 2001, by William J. Maxwell, Associate Professor of English and Afro-American Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.
See Review of this site done for H-Amstdy on May 19, 2001, by Deborah L. Parsons, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
See Review of this site done for H-Amstdy on May 18, 2001, by Stephen Shapiro, Lecturer, English & Comparative Studies, University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

Deaths, Disturbances, Disasters and Disorders in Chicago: A selective bibliography of materials in the Municipal Reference Collection of the Chicago Public Library
http://www.chicagopubliclibrary.org/004chicago/chidisaster.html

An illustrated and annotated bibliography compiled by Ellen O'Brien and Lyle Benedict, Reference Librarians in CPL's Municipal Reference Collection.
(21 Aug 2003)

Down the Drain: History of an Urban Infrastructure
http://www.chipublib.org/digital/sewers/intro.html

The Chicago Public Library’s history of water and sewer systems in that city. Many photos.
(28 Jul 2001)

The Dramas of Haymarket
http://www.chicagohs.org/dramas/

A collection of documents, illustrations and analysis of the famous Chicago riot that is valuable both for research and student projects.
(28 Jul 2001)
See also the Review of this site done for H-Urban on March 22, 2001, by Janice Reiff, University of California at Los Angeles, USA.

The Great Chicago Fire
http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/index.html

The 1997 review of this site by Susan Williams is still valid and gives a good description of the website. Valuable teaching and research tool. Text by Carl Smith. Lots of photos and primary documents.
(28 Jul 2001)
Review of The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory website done for H-Urban in February, 1997 by Susan Williams, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, USA.  (22 Jul 2001)

History of Riverside (Chicago suburb)
http://riverside-illinois.com/History.htm

A short history and photo tour of Frederick Law Olmsted's best known planned suburb by a community group.
(28 Jul 2001; updated 8 Aug 2002)

Park Forest Digital Imaging Project
http://findit.sos.state.il.us/PFS/

Well-indexed collection of oral histories and photos of this 1950s planned suburb outside Chicago. The interface can be cumbersome, and there's no indication of who created the website.
(17 Jun 2001)

Photographs from the Chicago Daily News (1902 to 1939)
http://r.vresp.com/?ChicagoHistoricalSoc/0ea76e8d0f/57929/b3d14bb702

This Chicago Historical Society collection of 56,000 photos from the morgue of the Chicago Daily News is presented online in cooperation with the Library of Congress American Memory web site, which provides an excellent search function. Just to give some feeling for its contents, there are 39 photos of Al Capone, 19 of Jane Addams, and 17 on street cleaning. The collection is not confined to Chicago. For example a search under Boston found over 100 images (most of them, to be sure, photos of baseball players).
(8 Jan 2003)

Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/contents.htm

Sponsored by the Jane Addams Hull House Museum and the University of Illinois at Chicago, this online project contains a variety of primary source documents, documentary photographs, and scholarly essays that explore the legacy of social reform movements in Chicago and the community's history.
(26 June 2003)

World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 (Chicago)
http://columbus.gl.iit.edu/bookfair/bftoc.html

Architectural photos of the Fair and the full text of The Book of the Fair by Hubert Howe Bancroft (Chicago, San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1893). This site was created and maintained at Illinois Institute of Technology by Kristin Standaert.
(16 Aug 2001)

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East St. Louis Action Research Project

See The IBEX Archive.
(7 Jan 2002)

The IBEX Archive (the Illinois Bottomland Explorer)

http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/ibex/archive

Commissioned in 1999 by the East St. Louis Action Research Project, this online history of East St. Louis, Illinois contains oral history transcripts and the texts of primary and secondary sources, mostly guidebooks and traveler's views (some with numerous photos). The site is obviously still under construction. There's no indication of designer or author or date. There are few links and a narrative or time-line would help.
(7 Jan 2002)

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RIVERSIDE, ILLINOIS

Riverside, Illinois

See Chicago, Illinois because this is a suburb of Chicago.
(28 Jul 2001)

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