A group of African American students demonstrate against the Board of Education in front of the Picasso sculpture where a few of them are wearing masks and hovering over a coffin with the “Board of Education” painted on it.
In a clip from the documentary Studs on a Soapbox (2000), Studs Terkel talks about Chicago-style television of the 1940s and '50s, and in particular his show Studs' Place, a live sitcom set in a Chicago diner.
"Each lot in this subdivision is for all purposes perpetually restricted to the Caucasian race."(Source: Plat #10053219, Platbook 261, Page 4. Approved: May 2, 1928. Recorded: June 12, 1928. Expired: January 1, 1980)Back to Restricted Chicago…
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Tarrant & Co. was established in 1834 and formed a partnership with Johann Hoff in 1869. Johann Hoff’s Malt Extract had been marketed as a medicinal tonic since its invention in 1847; Tarrant & Co. became the sole agent for the product…
The modernist building of Temple Israel, on 44th and St. Lawrence Streets. After merging with B'nai Shalom, this also served as the synagogue of B'nai Shalom Temple Israel.
A New York Times article describing the activities surrounding the inaugural ceremonies and opening of the Chicago Columbian World's Fair. Headline: "Celebration Begun at Chicago Under Auspicious Conditions. Distinguished visitors attended the…
A modern day image of the location 12-30 W. Washington where the once Chicago Academy of Design and the later Art Institute was housed and now hosts a television studio and a shopping mall.
"It may be useful to note our belief that most citizens of the United States willingly recite the Pledge of Allegiance and proudly sing the national anthem. But the rights embodied in the Constitution, most particularly in the First Amendment,…
Exterior of Orchestra Hall (220 S. Michigan Ave.)-the location of the Cliff Dwellers Club. Various club members were associated and supported the Art Institute greatly.
