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Chicago History Timeline - Chicago Public Library

Chicago Landmarks - Your House Has A History

Chicagology

A pictorial and editorial history of early Chicago.

Chicagology - Chicago Tunnel Company

Learn all about a 60 mile underground railroad that operated with 146 locomotives and 3000 freight cars 40 feet below the streets of downtown Chicago.

Early Cook County Roads - Part 1 (Wayback Machine)

Early Cook County Roads - Part 2 (Wayback Machine)

German Culture on the Skids: How World War I Changed German Culture in America

Article by Rickie Lazzerini. Chicago, the most German city in America at the time of the First World War, hosted a plethora of German-language newspapers and clubs. Because of this, Chicago, and other parts of Illinois, became a hotbed of anti-German sentiment. Germaniphobia went beyond place name changes and took on a violent and sinister tone when Robert Prager, a German immigrant who was thought to be disloyal, was hanged by a mob in Collinsville, Illinois. The state of Illinois provides a small-scale setting to witness how the war led to the downfall of German culture in America.
[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Jazz Age Chicago - Chicago History Internet Links

The Encyclopedia of Chicago

From the Chicago History Museum, The Newberry Library, and Northwestern University.

The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory

Young Lords In Lincoln Park

Over 120 oral histories of families and activists displaced or connected to former Latino immigrant residents of the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. It is not only a genealogical migration into the community, especially of the first Puerto Rican immigrants to Chicago; it is also the birthplace of the Young Lords Latino civil and human rights movement. The interviews are online and archived at special collections in the Grand Valley State University Library.