The Art Institute of Chicago-Historic Image
description: The exterior of the Art Institute of Chicago Building at 111 S. Michigan in 1890s to 1900s.
publisher: IIT Archives
date: 1900s
contributor: de Baca, Miguel
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Smith and Dawson's Sixth Addition to Country Club Acres Prospect Heights, IL.
description: "No persons of any race other than the Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or part of this subdivision, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant." (Source: Plat #13261439, Platbook 349, Page 25. Approved: January 4, 1944. Recorded: April 10, 1944. Expired: January 1, 1980)

Oriole Park Village Second Addition
description: "The premises herein described shall not be said, conveyed or leased to, or occupied by, any person who is not a Caucasian (except servants of the owner or tenant) and in this event, that the premises hereindescribed shall be sold, conveyed, or leased to or occupied by any person who is not a Caucasian, this deed forthwith becomes null and void, and property herein conveyed shall forthwith revert to the grantor, except that said condition of reverter shall not affect the validity of any mortgage that may hereafter be placed on any part or parts thereof on the premises in the event of a breach thereof, it being the intention hereof of said condition of reverter shall be and remain in force and effect excepting that any reverter resulting because of a breach thereof shall be subject to the prior rights of any mortgage and the prior rights of any mortgage and the indebtness described in and secured thereby." (Source: Plat #13257394, Platbook 349, Page 24. Approved: March 22, 1944. Recorded: April 3, 1944. Expired: January 1, 1980) Back to Restricted Chicago Homepage
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Wiegel and Kilgallen's 8th addition to Crawford Gardens
description: "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 null and void and the property herein described shall be conveyed or leased by the grantee or any of the successors in title of the grantee to any person who is not a Caucasian or in the event the residential lots herein described or any improvements erected thereon shall be occupied by anyone who is not a Caucasian, except when such person be acting in the capacity of a servant for proper resident. This condition shall not be effective or operative as against any mortgage or mortgages or trust deed or trust deeds in the nature of a mortgage made by any grantee or any successor or successors in title of the grantee or of any remote grantee except and until any person or persons persuant thereto or the rights thereunder shall acquire and become vested with the title or ownership of any residential lot or lots herein conveyed in which event the said condition shall apply and be and become effective." (Source: Plat #13393596, Platbook 351, Page 41. Approved: November 6, 1944. Recorded: November 9, 1944. Expired: January 1, 1980) Back to Restricted Chicago Homepage
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Golfmoor
description: "This property shall not be sold, given, leased, or conveyed to any person who is not Caucasian, and the occupancy of improvements on this property shall be limited (except domestic help) to a person or persons who are Caucasian." (Source: Plat #13395375, Platbook 351, Page 37. Approved: October 30, 1944. Recorded: November 13, 1944. Expired: January 1, 1980) Back to Restricted Chicago Homepage
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Clips from the 1952 radio drama of The Wonder Hat
description: Clips showing Jaime's drawings for different sections of The Wonder Hat.

First Presbyterian Screenshot
subject: Introductory image for First Presbyterian tour
description: From the Panotour 360° tour of First Presbyterian Church in Lake Forest, part of Ben Zeller's Sacred Chicago project
creator: Ben Zeller
date: 2016

Homeland Acres
description: "No person 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 owner or tenant." (Source: Plat #13388820, Platbook 351, Page 33. Approved: September 9, 1944. Recorded: November 1, 1944. Expired: January 1, 1980)

Arlingdale being Harry J. Eckhardt's Subdivision
description: "The ownership and occupancy of the parts or parcels of land shall be restricted to the Caucasian race and no race or nationality other than for whom premises are intended shall use or occupy any dwelling on the premises except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by a domestic servant of a different race or nationality employed by owner or tenant." (Source: Plat #13343975, Platbook 351, Page 20. Approved: July 14, 1944. Recorded: August 23, 1944. Expired: January 1, 2018)

Town and Country Homes: Second Addition to Ivanhoe
description: No persons of any race other than the Caucasian race shall use, occupy or own any building or lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or a tenant. (Source: Plat #13339857, Platbook 351, Page 13. Approved: July 11, 1944. Recorded: August 16, 1944. Expired: January 1, 1980) Back to Restricted Chicago Homepage
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Town and Country Homes: Third Addition to Ivanhoe
description: "No persons of any race other than the Caucasian race shall use, occupy or own any building or lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or a tenant." (Source: Plat #13436009, Platbook 352, Page 16. Approved: August 8, 1944. Recorded: January 24, 1945. Expired: January 1, 1980)

Town and Country Homes: Fourth Addition to Ivanhoe
description: "No persons of any race other than the Caucasian race shall use, occupy or own any building or lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or a tenant." (Source: Plat #13530647, Platbook 353, Page 50. Approved: June 8, 1945. Recorded: June 15, 1945. Expired: January 1, 1980)
date: 1945-06-15

Weigel and Kilgallen's First Addition to Kedzie Ave. Gardens.
description: "It is an express condition of this conveyance that the grantor herein may at its option (which option shall be exercised by filing notices thereof in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Cook County, Illinois) declare this deed to be and become null and void and the property herein described shall be conveyed or leased in the grantee or any of the successors in title of the grantee to any person who is not a Caucasian or in the event the residential lots herein described or any improvements erected thereon shall be occupied by anyone who is not a Caucasian, except when such person be acting in the capacity of a servant for a proper resident. This condition shall not be effective or operative as against any mortgage or mortgages or trust deed or trust deeds in the nature of any mortgage made by any grantee or any successor or successors in title of the grantee or of any remote grantee except and until any person or persons pursuant thereto or the rights thereunder shall acquire and become vested with the title of ownership of any residential lot or lots herein conveyed in which event the said condition shall apply and be become effective." (Source: Plat #13526545, Platbook 353, Page 42. Approved: May 2, 1945. Recorded: June 11, 1945. Expired: January 1, 2018)

Alfini's First Addition to Des Plaines
description: "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 hereon described nor any structure erected thereon shall be occupied by any person who is not a Caucasian and that in the event the premises herein described shall be conveyed or leased by the owner or any of the successors in title of the owners to any person who is not a Caucasian or in the event that said premises or any structure erected thereon shall be occupied at any time by any person who is not a Caucasian, all deeds and conveyances from the owner or any successor in the title to the owner shall forthwith become null and void and the property herein described shall forth with revert to the grantor provided however that such reversion shall be subjected to any then existing encumbrances." (Source: Plat #13525268, Platbook 353, Page 39. Approved: May 25, 1945. Recorded: June 8, 1945. Expired: January 1, 1980)
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creator: Duba, Tebatso
date: 2020

Harry J. Eckhardt's Arlington Acres
description: "The ownership and occupancy of the parts or parcels of land shall be restricted to the Caucasian race and no race or nationality other than for whom premises are intended shall use or occupy any dwelling on the premises except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by a domestic servant of a different race or nationality employed by owner or tenant." (Source: Plat #13525264, Platbook 353, Page 37. Approved: June 6, 1945. Recorded: June 6, 1945. Expired: January 1, 1980) Back to Restricted Chicago Homepage
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National Home Developers Bel-Aire Park
description: "No tract of land in this subdivision shall be conveyed to, leased or occupied by any person not members of the Caucasian race, and this covenant shall be for the benefit of the title holders of the tracts contained in this subdivision, and run with the land within said subdivision." (Source: Plat #13506464, Platbook 353, Pages 20&21. Approved: May 14, 1945. Recorded: May 14, 1945. Expired: January 1, 1980) Back to Restricted Chicago Homepage
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Alpine Farms
description: "No portion of this property shall ever be leased, given, rented, sold, or conveyed to any person who is not of the Caucasian race, nor shall the said property, or any portion thereof, nor any improvement thereon, be used or occupied by any person who is not of the Caucasian race; ALWAYS PROVIDED, however, that a breach of this covenant shall not cause the title to the property to revert to any prior title-holder." (Source: Plat #13650115, Platbook 355, Pages 46&47. Approved: October 11 1945. Recorded: October 31, 1945. January 1, 1980)

Wiegel & Kilgallen's Kedzie Avenue Gardens
description: "It's 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 null and void and the property hereon described to forthwith thereafter revert to this grantor, in the event that said premises herein described shall be conveyed or leased by the grantee or any of the successors in title of the grantee to any person who is not a Caucasian or in the event the premises herein described or any improvements erected thereon shall be occupied by anyone who is not a Caucasian, except when such person be acting in the capacity of a servant for proper resident." (Source: Plat #13640834, Platbook 355, Page 35. Approved: October 25, 1945. Recorded: October 19, 1945. Expired: January 1, 1980) Back to Restricted Chicago Homepage
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Town and Country Homes: Fifth addition to Ivanhoe
description: "No person of any race other than the Caucasian race shall use, occupy, or own any building or lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant." (Source: Plat #13613069, Platbook 355, Page 20. Approved: August 27, 1945. Recorded: October 1, 1945. Expired: January 1, 1980) Back to Restricted Chicago Homepage
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Grover C. Elmore and Co's Addition to Palos Park
description: "No lot in this subdivision may be sold or leased to any person who is not a Caucasian and no building erected on any lot in this subdivision may be occupied by any person not a Caucasian. The owners or occupants of any lot or building in this subdivision may be employed persons not Caucasian and such persons may be domiciled on the premises of the owner or occupants." (Source: Plat #14002474, Platbook 357, Page 19. Approved: February 6, 1946. Recorded: March 4, 1946. Expired: January 1, 1980)

Wonder Hat Clip: Working for Love
description: Clip from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952
creator: Goodman, Kenneth Sawyer Hecht, Ben Deare, Jaime
source: The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL (sound recording) Original illustrations by Jaime Deare.
publisher: Goodman Memorial Theatre
date: 1952 2016
contributor: Jaime Deare, illustrations.
rights: Sound recording courtesy The Newberry Library, Chicago, Call # MMS Goodman, Box 9 Folder N/A. Images by Jaime Deare.
format: Digital .mp4 video file
language: English

Rebecca Howell

Death in Chicago

Raised Building
description: An illustration of Briggs House (a hotel in Chicago) being raised, as the city planned to lift the buildings up by a few feet in order to install new foundations and municipal sewage systems
source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/chi-chicagodays-raisingstreets-story-story.html
publisher: Chicago Historical Society
date: 1857
contributor: Rebecca Howell
contributor: Zanub Husain
rights: public domain

Polio Ad
description: Titled, "Join the Parade: We had Polio Vaccine, get Your Polio Shots now.", the illustrated poster encourages polio vaccination among infants and children especially.
creator: The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
source: Collection: Historical Medical Poster Collection Repository: Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. Historical Library: http://whitney.med.yale.edu/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?c=mdposter&a=d&d=DmdposterposterAAJC
publisher: The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
date: 1957
contributor: Rebecca Howell
contributor: Zanub Husain
rights: Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Historical Library. Yale University

1900 Chicago
description: An aerial photograph of the city of Chicago from 1900 or 1901, titled "The Heart of Chicago".
source: https://www.loc.gov/item/det1994007788/PP/
publisher: Detroit Publishing Co.
date: 1900 / 1901
contributor: Rebecca Howell
contributor: Zanub Husain
rights: public domain

1871 Chicago
description: An illustrative map of the city of Chicago before the Great Fire, the First City before the Great Conflagration of October 8th-10th, 1871.
creator: Parsons & Atwater
source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3a24735/
publisher: Currier & Ives
date: 1874
contributor: Rebecca Howell
contributor: Zanub Husain
rights: public domain

Smoggy Skyline
description: A photograph of Chicago skyline from the Tribune Tower with the Wrigley building in the foreground, showing the heavy smog that blanketed the city in the mornings.
source: http://www.shorpy.com/node/19389
date: November 1st, 1952
contributor: Rebecca Howell
contributor: Zanub Husain
rights: permission granted to use digital copy for non-commercial use

Manual Training Class
description: Boys learning carpentry during a class at an open air summer school in Chicago, as open air schools were believed to help prevent and combat the spread of tuberculosis among children.
publisher: Science History Images
date: 1917
contributor: Rebecca Howell
contributor: Zanub Husain
rights: public domain

Iroquois Theater Measuring Exit
description: Police officers measure the exit of the Iroquois Theater after the 1903 fire. Taken from Chicago's Awful Theater Horror, by the Survivors and Rescuers, with an introduction by Bishop Fallows. (Memorial Publishing Co., D. B. McCurdy, 1904)
creator: Photograph in published monograph
source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39280/39280-h/39280-h.htm
publisher: D. B. McCurdy and Memorial Publishing Co.
date: 1904
contributor: Rebecca Howell
rights: public domain