Chicago

• Chicago Historical Society
  (includes Great Chicago Fire and Web of Memory)
• Chicago Landmarks
  (mostly focusing on the period after the Great Fire, 1871)
• Chicago Public Library
• Famous Trials
  (includes 1919-21 “Black Sox” scandal; Leopold and Loeb trial, 1924; and the Chicago Seven, 1969-70)
• Fort Sheridan
• Gang Research
  (focuses on post-World War II)
• Homicide In Chicago 1870-1930
  (database of 11,000 homicide casefiles, and related materials)
• Jazz Age Chicago
  (vast primary source collection, 1893-1924)
• South Side Jazz Club Project
  (database of Chicago’s jazz clubs in the era of the Great Migration)
• Weird Illinois
  (perhaps more fun than scholarly)

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