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This house has undergone significant change. A 1947 Tribune photo of the back of the house indicates it was built as designed although in reverse. Today, the house has, instead of the protruding garage from the original, a built-in garage. The…

Prize home #17. Built at 2914 West Pratt Boulevard. One of the largest houses to be built, this four-bedroom house has not only a master bedroom/bath combination, but two additional full bathrooms on the second floor in addition to a half-bath on the…

Built using Prize Home winner #11 design. This two-and-a-half bathroom, three-bedroom house has been expanded. An addition over the garage added a bedroom, and the living space was extended by building a family room extension at the back of the first…

Prize Home # 9. This large house has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms, but contains a small second-floor sewing room as a bonus. It appears from the outside to be architecturally unchanged. There is some evidence—as of yet…

Prize home # 10. Four houses were built from this design. (Others include 12020 Maple Ave in Blue Island; 368 Ridge Road in Highland Park; 1542 Woodbine Ct. in Deerfield.) With three bedrooms, one bath room and a dining alcove rather than full dining…

Built using Prize Home winner #12 design. A master suite, with separate bathroom and walk-in closet, makes this house distinctive. With three bedrooms and two full baths, plus a separate dining area plus breakfast nook, this house is one of the…

Built using Prize Home winner #2 design. The second of two houses built with the same plan. (The other is in Palatine.) The Deer Park home now has a second floor, which likely doubles the original square footage as well as increasing the number of…

What Francis O'Neill's home looked like when he lived in it

Francis O'Neill's home from 1880-1889

Built using Prize Home winner #18 design. One of two built from this design (the other is 250 Poplar in Highland Park). Despite being a four-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom design, the Wheaton version was torn down in 2006 and replaced by new home.

2015 Field School

Built using Prize Home winner #2 design. This modest design, only two bedrooms, was built twice. (The other is 2844 W. Pratt in Chicago.) The house was torn down in the mid-2000s, and remains an empty lot.

Pamphlet produced for the exhibition of the Du Sable cabin replica during the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.

Poster for Chicago Department of Health showing large red question mark, with text reading: "Is your child vaccinated Vaccination prevents smallpox - Chicago Department of Health."

An aerial photograph of the city of Chicago from 1900 or 1901, titled "The Heart of Chicago".

Students pledging to the flag, 1899, 8th Division, Washington, D.C. Part of the Frances Benjamin Johnston 1890 - 1900 Washington, D.C., school survey.

An illustrative map of the city of Chicago before the Great Fire, the First City before the Great Conflagration of October 8th-10th, 1871.