Representing the Urban Landscape
   

-- Useful Links and Selected Web Resources --

Chicago Culture

• History:  The Online Encyclopedia of Chicago; Chicago History Museum (formerly the Chicago Historical Society); The History Files (CHM exhibits); Historical Timeline of Chicago (CPL); Chicago's Southeast Side (history, architecture, photos); Chicago Public Library's Chicago History Resources; The Great Chicago Fire (Web of Memory exhibit); DuSable Museum of African-American History; Chicago: City of the Century (PBS site based on the book by Donald Miller); The History Makers (African-American history archive)

• Art/Architecture:  Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933 (CHS / Library of Congress); Art Institute; Chicago Architecture Foundation; Forgotten Chicago (preservation organization); Chicago Architectural Landmarks (City of Chicago); Mexican Fine Arts Museum; Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago (fall 2008 Art Institute exhibit) 

• The World's Fair of 1893:  IIT's Digital History Collection on the Fair; Multimedia Tour and Analysis of the Fair; CHS's website on the Exposition; Eric Larsen's The Devil in the White City

• Literature:  University of Chicago Press' list of Chicago books; American Authors on the Web (listed chronologically by date of birth), American Literature Chronology; Seminary Co-op Bookstore

• Other Humanities Resources:  Chicago Humanities Festival; Institute for the Humanities at UIC; PBS online; American Memory exhibits at the Library of Congress

Chicago Nature

• Art/Photography/Architecture:  Terry Evans, Revealing Chicago; Ford Calumet Environmental Center Design Competition; UrbanLab, Growing Water (City of the Future Competition)

• Nature Writing:  Great Books of the Chicago Wilderness (by Chicago Wilderness Magazine); Seeding the Snow (Midwestern Women's Nature Writing)

• Geography/Mapping:  The Public Square -- An Atlas of the Next Chicago Region; Atlas of Biodiversity; Natural Connections (Green Mapping); The Continental Divide in Oak Park

• Ecology/Natural History:  Atlas of Biodiversity; Wetlands of the Calumet Region (Sierra Club); Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie; Bridgehouse and Chicago River Museum; Joel Greenberg, A Naturalists's Tour of Southern Lake Michigan; Field Museum of Natural History

• Conservation/Restoration:  Chicago Wilderness Reports; Edens Lost and Found (PBS); Calumet Environmental Resource Center (Chicago State Univ.); Journey Through Calumet (Field Museum);

• Planning:  The Burnham Plan Centennial; Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago (fall 2008 Art Institute exhibit); Chicago Metropolis 2020; Metropolitan Planning Council; Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning; Carl Smith, The Plan of Chicago (EofC); Campaign for Sensible Growth; CW Biodiversity Recovery Plan; Schaumburg's Biodiversity Plan; Calumet Area Use Plan (pdf)

• Environmental Organizations/Resources:  City of Chicago Dept of Environment; Chicago Wilderness; Center for Humans and Nature; Chicagoland Environmental Network; Chicago Park District; Forest Preserve District of Cook County; Friends of the Chicago River; Indiana Dunes Nat'l Lakeshore

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