City Sites

Chicago

Chicago Landmarks (by the City of Chicago)
http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/index.html

Chicago Imagebase
http://www.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase/

World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Paul V Galvin Digital History Collection, Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://columbus.gl.iit.edu/

Columbian Exposition of 1893
http://park.org/Pavilions/WorldExpositions/chicago.html

The Chicago Historical Society
http://www.chicagohs.org/

"The Dramas of Haymarket" (premiering May 4 2000)
http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/index.htm

Great Chicago Fire and The Web of Memory.
Excellent site by scholar Carl Smith on actual event and subsequent interpretation and mythologizing about it.
http://www.chicagohs.org/

The Newberry Library Chicago
http://www.newberry.org/nl/newberryhome.html

"Down the Drain: The Historic Development of an Urban Infrastructure" .
Comprehensive overview of development of Chicago's sewer and water systems.
http://www.chipublib.org/digital/sewers/intro.html

Photographs from Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920
Fine collection of photographs of U.S., many of cities (search on "Chicago" for Chicago photographs). Library of Congress/ America Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html

History of Riverside, including excellent (and technically challenging) Riverside Historical Landmarks Tour
http://riverside-illinois.com/History.htm

Three Cities: New York; Los Angeles; Chicago
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/3cities/

World Expositions. Introductory site sponsored by major computer companies with history and images of expositions and world fairs in Amsterdam (1883, 1887, 1895), Chicago (1893), London (1850 Crystal Palace), New York (1939), Paris (1889), and Philadelphia (1876).
http://park.org/Pavilions/WorldExpositions/