Key Resources
- Chicago Tribune Historical Content This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the complete paper version of the newspaper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format. More recent years of the Chicago Tribune are available through the Chicago Tribune Current Content collection as well as US Newsstream (ProQuest).
Dates Covered: 1849-2010. - Chicago Defender - Historical Edition This link opens in a new window
Provides full page and article images with searchable full text of this historically important African American newspaper from 2010 back to the first issue.
Dates Covered: 1910-2010.
- Encyclopedia of ChicagoPhotographs, biographies, essays, art, music, maps and documents on all things Chicago.
Access note: Freely available to the public.
- Explore Chicago Collections This link opens in a new window
Provides access to digital images, maps, photos, letters, descriptions of archival collections, and other resources, made available by the Chicago Collections initiative, a consortium of more than 20 libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and other cultural heritage organizations across the Chicago region.
Access note: Freely available to the public.
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