Big Book, Big City
If your ancestors attended Ben Reitman’s “hobo college,” shopped at the Fair department store, took in a show at the Regal Theater, or worked for Swift or Armour, you can learn more about the town they called home in the Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago. And it’s all right on your desktop.
Along with entries on all things Chicago, the site features video galleries, historical photographs, digital essays, and uniquely detailed maps.
The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago is a collaborative effort between the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society, and Academic Technologies at Northwestern University. The creators see it as “new kind of metropolitan history,” an experiment that “is very much ‘to be continued.’”
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