Primary Sources in Chicago History
Origins through 1871
Charles Butler, diary entries (1833)
Eyewitness accounts
of the Great Fire
Caroline Kirkland, "Illinois in Springtime"
(1858)
Charles Joseph Latrobe, Rambler in
North America (1836)
Harriet Martineau, Society in America
(1837)
Treaty
with the Indians (1833)
1872-1900
Jane Addams, "A Modern Lear"
(1896)
Jane Addams, "The Subjective
Necessity of Social Settlements" (1892)
Jane Addams, "Why the Ward
Boss Rules" (1898)
Chicago Tribune, "Stamp Out the
Anarchists" (1886)
Paul De Rousiers, American Life
(1892)
Richard Ely, "Pullman: A Social Study" (1885)
Haymarket Posters (1886)
Gerhard Lizius, letter to the
Alarm (1885)
George McLean, The Rise and
Fall of Anarchy in America (1888)
Charles Warner, "Wonder of a World" (1893)
1900-1929
Daniel Burnham, Plan of Chicago
(1909)
Chicago Commission on Race Relations, The
Negro in Chicago (1922)
Chicago Defender, "Farewell
Dixie Land" (1916)
Chicago Defender, "Things That
Should Be Considered"(1917)
"Letters of Negro Migrants" (1919)
New York Times, "7 Chicago Gangsters
Slain" (1929)
Frank Norris, excerpt from The Pit
(1902)
Carl Sandburg, "Chicago" (1916)
Upton Sinclair,
The Jungle (1906)
1930 to Present
Horace Cayton, interview about Depression
Chicago Freedom Movement, Program (1966)
Depression letters
E. Gomillia, Letter Opposing Urban Renewal
(1965)
J.M. Kelly, "`Shiny New Islands' Don't
Solve Housing" (1958)
Leanita McClain, "How Chicago Taught
Me to Hate Whites" (1983)
Dan Swinney, "Development is Dividing
the City," (1997)
