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Alton trials of Winthrop S. Gilman(114 clicks)
Alton trials of Winthrop S. Gilman, who was indicted with Enoch Long, Amos B. Roff, George H. Walworth, George H. Whitney, William Harned, John S. Noble, James Morss, Jr., Henry Tanner, Royal Weller, Reuban Gerry, and Thaddeus B. Hurlbut; for the crime of riot, committed on the night of the 7th of November, 1837, while engaged in defending a printing press, from an attack made on it at that time, by an armed mob

At Home in the Heartland Online(1468 clicks)
Family life in Illinois since the 1700s.

Bath School Disaster(220 clicks)
On a warm Spring morning in May of 1927 the Treasurer of the Bath, Michigan Consolidated School District blew up half of the school building (intending to have destroyed all of it). Within the hour he had committed suicide (and more murders) in the middle of the village by detonating explosives in his vehicle. In all, 45 people would be dead & many more would be injured in the worst instance of school violence in U.S. history.

Chicago Historical Society(1366 clicks)
Great site!

Chicago Historical Society’s: The History Files(963 clicks)
Get the inside story on some of Chicago's most memorable events!

Chicago: City of the Century(673 clicks)
PBS American Experience

Colombian Exposition of 1893(770 clicks)

Dramas of Haymarket(636 clicks)

Early Illinois Women & Other Unsung Heroes, 1818-1918(1277 clicks)
"This web site attempts to capture the experiences of Illinois women during the first century of statehood. The site includes a digital archive of original material from participating libraries and links to existing Internet material."

Great Chicago Fire & The Web of Memory(702 clicks)

History of the great fires in Chicago and the West(242 clicks)
History of the great fires in Chicago and the West... With a history of the rise and progress of Chicago, the "young giant". To which is appended a record of the great fires in the past (1871)

Homicide in Chiago(1250 clicks)

Hull House And Its Neighborhhod, 1889-1963(786 clicks)
Urban Experience in Chicago

Illinois Historical Digitization Project(25 clicks)

John H. White: Portrait of Black Chicago(1135 clicks)
"From June through October 1973 and briefly during the spring of 1974, John H. White, a 28-year-old photographer with the Chicago Daily News, worked for the federal government photographing Chicago, especially the city's African American community."

Lincoln/Net(15 clicks)
Lincoln/Net presents historical materials from Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), including Lincoln's writings and speeches, as well as other materials illuminating antebellum Illinois.

Little Road(102 clicks)
The little road the story of the Macomb Industry & Littleton Railway by Frank G. Hicks. Published 2006 by Western Illinois University in Macomb, Ill

Mrs. Leary's [sic] Cow(105 clicks)
Mrs. Leary's [sic] cow a legend of Chicago by C.C. Hine. Published 1872 by Insurance monitor in New York

Parades, Politics, and Protest in Chicago(1433 clicks)
1860 to the present.

Political Debates Between Lincoln and Douglas(1383 clicks)
The seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND THE FAILURE OF MUNICIPAL SOCIALISM IN CHICAGO,(706 clicks)

Rand, McNally & co.'s handbook of the World's Columbian exposition(106 clicks)
with special descriptive articles by Mrs. Potter Palmer, the Countess of Aberdeen, Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer ... Published 1893 by Rand, McNally & company in Chicago .

The Haymarket Tragedy(1414 clicks)
The Hatmarket affair of 1886, a set back for working people.

The story of the stadium (1921)(200 clicks)
University of Illinois

The Winters art lithographing company's(110 clicks)
popular portfolios of the World's Columbian exposition (1891

Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963(799 clicks)

Urban Revolt: Ethnic Politics in the Nineteenth-Century Chicago Labor Movement(573 clicks)
Scholarly book by Eric L. Hirsch

World's Columbian Exposition (1893)(111 clicks)
Rand, McNally & co.'s handbook of the World's Columbian exposition with special descriptive articles by Mrs. Potter Palmer, the Countess of Aberdeen, Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer ... Published 1893 by Rand, McNally & company in Chicago .

World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago(124 clicks)
The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 / a full description of the buildings and exhibits in all departments : and a short account of previous expositions with an introduction / by Col. George R. Davis ; and an introduction to the Woman's Department by Mrs. Potter Palmer ; with special chapters by Hon. Thomas B. Bryan, ... [et al.] (1893)