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"No conveyance contract or lease is to be made to or with any person not of the Caucasian race." (Source: Plat #12755597, Platbook 341, Page 7. Approved: July 28, 1941. Recorded: September 12, 1941, Expired: January 1, 1965)Back to Restricted Chicago…

"No lot or lots in this subdivision or any interest, therein may at any time hereafter be sold, conveyed or leased or transferred, by grantee or grantees or by any successor or successors in title of a grantee or grantees, either voluntarily or by…

"No premises or lots in said subdivision shall be sold or leased to, or occupied by a person or persons other than of the Caucasian race" (Source: Plat #12840797, Platbook 342, Page 29. Approved: December 16, 1941. Recorded: February 13, 1942.…

"No persons of any race other than the Caucasian race shall use or occupy any buildings or any lo, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race, domiciled with an owner or tenant" (Source: Plat…

"All lots in this subdivision (except lots 1,2,3, and 4) are hereby restricted to single family residences and that said premises shall not be conveyed or leased to any occupied by any person who is not a Caucasian, except servants." (Source: Plat…

"A condition in language as follows: It is an express condition that no part of the real estate herein described shall ever be conveyed or leased to any person who is not Caucasian; provided that Caucasians while using or occupying said real estate,…

"A condition in language as follows: It is an express condition that no part of the real estate herein described shall ever be conveyed or leased to any person who is not Caucasian; provided that Caucasians while using or occupying said real estate,…

"A condition in language as follows: It is an express condition that no part of the real estate herein described shall ever be conveyed or leased to any person who is not Caucasian; provided that Caucasians while using or occupying said real estate,…

"It is an express condition of this conveyance that the grantor herein may at its option (which option shall be exercised by filing notice thereof in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Cook County, Illinois), declare this deed to be and become…

"It is an express condition of this conveyance that the grantor herein may at its option (which option shall be exercised by filing notice thereof in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Cook County, Illinois) declare this deed to be and become…

"The premises herein described shall not be sold, conveyed or leased to, or occupied by, any person who is not a Caucasian (except servants of the owner or tenant) and in the event that the premises herein described shall be sold, conveyed or leased…

"It is an express condition of this plat that the premises herein described shall not be conveyed or leased by the owners or any of the successors in title of the owners to any person who is not a Caucasian; that neither the premises herein described…

"No persons of any race other than Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or any lot except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant" (Source: Plat #13146931,…

"No person, of any race other than the Caucasian race, shall use or occupy any building erected in this subdivision; except however that this covenant shall not apply to domestic servants of another race, domiciled with an owner or tenant" (Source;…

"The premises herein described shall not be sold, conveyed or leased to, or occupied by, any person who is not a Caucasian (except servants of the owner or tenant) and in the event that the premises herein described shall be sold, conveyed or leased…

"No persons of any race other than the Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or any lot except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant" (Source: Plat…

"The premises herein described shall not be sold, conveyed or leased to, or occupied by, any person who is not a Caucasian (except servants of the owner or tenant) and in the event that the premises herein described shall be sold, conveyed or leased…

"It is an express condition of this path that the premises herein described shall not be conveyed or leased by the owners or any of the successors in title of the owners to any person who is not a Caucasian; that neither the premises herein described…

Sculpture titled "Monument With Standing Beast" by the artist Jean Dubuffet in 1984 and located in front of the James R. Thompson Center at 100 W. Randolph Street.

The exterior of the Record-Herald Building, which housed the Fine Arts Journal magazine. The building itself is no longer extant, but it was located at 154 W. Washington Street.

A drawn image of the Crosbys' Opera House on Washington Street that held the meeting that spurred the creation of a school for the Fine Arts or Chicago Academy of Design and later the Art Institute of Chicago.

An image of the Holabird & Roche designed McClurg Stationers and Booksellers Building at 215 S. Wabash Ave. It was the home of the Brush and Pencil Magazine from 1897-1907.

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.

Cover of the catalogue for Negro in Art Week hosted by the Chicago Art Institute and Chicago Woman's Club

Black and White photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe as a young woman captured by photographer Alfred Stieglitz.

Historic photograph of the Lake View Building in 1880s-1890s that housed the Art Institute under the stewardship of Charles L. Hutchinson until it moved to the modern day location on Michigan Avenue in 1893.

An image of Foundation of Great Lakes in the 1900s surrounded by a flock of pigeons. It is used as the "then" shot to compare the modern day landscape.

A Portrait of Bertha Honore Palmer (1849-1918). Palmer was serious patron of the arts and was invited to lecture at the Art Institute of Chicago. She also made a generous bequest to the Art Institute of Chicago and formed the core of the museum’s…