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• Chicago History Museum Rescheduled Jim Belushi

  Published: October 12, 2007, 7:25 am

  Tags: Arts, Chicago, Chicago History Museum, Museums

  Chicago Treasures is a series of conversations with Chicago personalities discussing their views on Chicago and how their careers and the city have shaped and influenced each other. Date rescheduled from October 17 to November 7 due to Hollywood writers strike.

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• Chicago History Museum Welcomes DJ Spooky

  Published: October 13, 2007, 1:14 am

  Tags: Arts, Chicago, Chicago History Museum, Museums

  The Chicago History Museum welcomes New York based writer, musician, and conceptual artist, Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid to perform his newest multimedia performance piece, Subliminal Strings: Link City on Saturday, November 17 at 7:00 p.m. at the Museum.

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• Chicago History Museum Debuts At FIT

  Published: October 13, 2007, 1:12 am

  Tags: Arts, Chicago, Chicago History Museum, Museums

  The Chicago History Museum (CHM) in collaboration with the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) will provide visitors a rare opportunity to see 50 of the greatest couture pieces from the Chicago History Museum's acclaimed collection of more than 22 million artifacts.

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• Chicago Museum Honors Rock Band Chicago

  Published: November 22, 2007, 3:41 am

  Tags: Arts, Chicago, Chicago History Museum, Museums

  The Chicago History Museum has teamed up with the band Chicago to commemorate the band's 40th anniversary by presenting the installation CHICAGO 40: The Band and its City, at the Museum's entrance which will be on display, Tuesday, December 4, and will run through Sunday, March 30, 2008.

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• Chicago History Caught in the Web

  Published: April 25, 2008, 7:30 am

  Tags: Yerkes Observatory, Frank Lloyd Wright, Haymarket, White City, Newberry Library, Chicago History, Old Chicago Postcards, Charles T Yerkes

  Wish You Were Here Chicago History in Postcards has hundreds of cards organized by category,

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• Past Grads Meet on New CPS Alumni Site

  Published: April 24, 2008, 10:02 am

  Tags: Cps Alumni, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago History

  Public Schools launches the new Web site, CPSalumni, to connect an estimated three million people, who have attended or worked in Chicago Public Schools, with separate home pages for every school in CPS history. CPS is the first large urban public school district to organize its alumni in this way. The goal of CPSalumni.org is to build

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• A Visit to the Union Stock Yards

  Published: April 23, 2008, 4:13 pm

  Tags: Union Stockyards, Swift And Company, Chicago History

  Was there no better way to enjoy a Sunday family outing at the turn of the 20th century than by visiting the Union Stock Yards to watch a pig be brutally slaughtered by overworked, underpaid immigrants? Guess not. I found this wonderful 1903 Swift and Company souvenir and just had to share. The booklet begins with some facts and figures

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• Carter H. Harrison (Sr.)

  Published: April 22, 2008, 10:51 am

  Tags: Mayors Of Chicago, Chicago By Night, Chicago History, Late 19th Century Chicago Vice, Carter H Harrison

  a look at this place called Chicago. The girl whom he has just married is with him, yet even on his honeymoon he falls in love

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• Baseball and Beer: New Links Added

  Published: April 18, 2008, 8:30 am

  Tags: Chicago Beer Riot, 1919 World Series, Lager Beer Riot, Chicago History, Chicago Black Sox

  says spring in Chicago like beer and baseball. So in honor of the season (and an anticipated win by the Cubs this afternoon) this week's new links (scroll down the left column) feature the Lager Beer Riot of 1855 and the 1919 World Series Scandal. The 1919 World series pitted the Chicago White Sox against the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago

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• Where Do You Get Your History?: Primary Sources

  Published: April 17, 2008, 6:14 am

  Tags: The Pen And Spindle, Internet Archive, Primary Sources, Chicago History

  "Primary sources provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation. They are created by witnesses or recorders who experienced the events or conditions being documented. Often these sources are created at the time when the events or conditions are occurring, but primary sources can also include autobiographies,

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• A Glimpse of the Past

  Published: April 17, 2008, 5:16 am

  Tags: Chicago, State And Madison, Edison Motion Pictures, Chicago History

  The streets of Chicago seem crowded today, but take a look at the corner of State and Madison through the eye of the Edison Manufacturing Company in 1897, part of the Video Gallery at Encyclopedia of Chicago. The Library of Congress website features an extensive section on these early Edison Motion Pictures with dozens of early clips.

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• Chicago Politics is a Laughing Matter...Sometimes

  Published: April 16, 2008, 10:54 am

  Tags: Npr, Hinky Dink Kenna, Gary Krist, Chicago Fiction, Scott Simon, Chicago History

  again, being fought. The Chicago Children's Museum wants to move from their current location on Navy Pier to a site that, historically, was to remain "forever open, clear and free." Much of Chicago may well be hoping for some clever writer to pen "The Chicago Carol," where the ghosts of Daniel Burnham and Montgomery Ward visit Mayor Daley and

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• Chicagoans, Dr. Blackmarr and the R.M.S. Titanic

  Published: April 14, 2008, 10:06 am

  Tags: Dr Frank Blackmarr, Encyclopedia Titanica, Chicagoans On Titanic, Titanic, Chicago History, 1920s Chicago

  on April 15th.) A List of Chicagoans on Board the Titanic, plus as much biographical that is known, is provided at Genealogy Trails for Cook County. There is also the story from Encyclopedia Titanica about Miss Ann Elizabeth

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• Chicago History at the NYPL

  Published: April 14, 2008, 6:40 am

  Tags: Stereoscopic, Field, Digitized Images, Theodore Dreiser, New York Public Library, Great Chicago Fire, Chicago History, Leiter And Co

  Theodore Dreiser?! This is just one of the little treasures that I found on the New York Public Library Digital Gallery. The Digital Gallery provides access to over 600,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage

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• The Drake and The Disaster

  Published: April 10, 2008, 9:39 am

  Tags: Iroquois Theater Fire, John Mccutcheon, Cape Cod Room, The Drake Hotel, Chicago History, Benjamin Henry Marshall

  a Crain's Chicago Business article yesterday, Shia Kapos reported Spiffed-up Cape Cod in Upstream Swim. The Cape Cod Room of the legendary Drake Hotel has, indeed, re-opened, but based on the article there seems only to be guarded enthusiasm and restrained optimism. Well, I, for one, am ecstatic! The last time I visited the restaurant I

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