Includes articles, photos, maps, broadsides and newspapers related to Chicago's history.

Images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News.

"The Lakefront from Pioneer Days to the Century of Progress." Features information from books, documents, photographs, and other historical materials.

Material relating to the development of commerce, retail, and entertainment centers in Chicago from the turn of the 19th century to the early 1930s.

Searchable collection of original manuscripts, artifacts, broadsides, pamphlets, photographs, and prints relating to the protest meeting and bombing on 4 May 1886 in Chicago's Haymarket Square.