The old Chicago Public Library, now the Chicago Cultural Center. Top photo taken 1903. Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0001239. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society.
The Labor Trail is the product of a joint effort to showcase the many generations of dramatic struggles and working-class life in the Chicago area's rich and turbulent past. The Trail's neighborhood tours invite you to get acquainted with the events, plac
Image of Mexican immigrants working with sickles to cut weeds along the side of a road outside of Chicago, Illinois. Power lines on tall wooden poles extend in the distance behind the workers.
Steelworkers, union leaders, labor historians, industrial archeologists, business organizations, and university representatives have joined together as Chicago’s Steel Heritage Project to save the last vestiges of Chicago’s historic steel making struc
The Chicago History Project (CHP) is a partnership between the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Historical Society, Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago, Chicago Metro History Education Center, the Newberry Library, and the University of Illinoi