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History Fair

Ideas

Official Site of the Chicago Metro History Fair :
http://www.chicagohistoryfair.org

Primary Source Databases

Chicago Public Library

CPL Chicago History Resources:
http://www.chipublib.org/cplbooksmovies/poptopics/chicagohistory.php

CPL Databases :
http://www.chipublib.org/cplbooksmovies/research/database_atoz.php

Click on the following databases.

• Chicago Tribune Historical Archive Almost every article--including every PAGE--published from 1854 to 1986
• Chicago Defender Historical Archive From 1905 to 1975, the Chicago Defender was the Newspaper of Record for the African American Experience
• Illinois Sanborn Map Collection Incredibly detailed historical map sets--very useful if trying to show where something happened in relation to other things

Listing of all CPL Archive Collections:
http://www.chipublib.org/cplbooksmovies/cplarchive/archivalcoll/index.php

Library of Congress

American Memory:
http://memory.loc.gov/

National Archives

Access to Archive Databases:
http://aad.archives.gov/aad/

Chicago History Museum

The Encyclopedia of Chicago:
http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/

Online Projects:
http://chicagohistory.org/research/resources/online-resources/online
Scroll down to access these resources

Northern Illinois University

Illinois Historical Digitization Projects:
http://chicagohistory.org/research/resources/online-resources/online

University of Illinois at Chicago

Urban Experience in Chicago
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/

Great Migration Resource Page
http://www.uic.edu/educ/bctpi/pt3/greatmigration.html

Northwestern University

Homicide in Chicago: 1870-1930
http://homicide.northwestern.edu/

Forms

High School Summary Statement Form: