Encyclopedia of Chicago book jacket
Table of Contents List of A-Z entries List of Maps Introduction from the book Errata
Edited by James R. Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, and Janice L. Reiff
Developed by the Newberry Library in cooperation with the Chicago Historical Society
Major funding provided by
The National Endowment for the Humanities
The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The City of Chicago
The State of Illinois
Founding Patrons
Bank One
The Boeing Company
BP Foundation
Additional funding
Sara Lee Foundation
Otho S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute, in honor of Charles C. Haffner III
James R. Grossman is vice president for research and education at the Newberry Library and senior lecturer in history at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration and A Chance to Make Good: African Americans 1900-1929. Ann Durkin Keating is professor of history at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. She is the author of Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis, Invisible Networks: Exploring the History of Local Utilities, and Chicagoland. Janice L. Reiff is associate professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Structuring the Past: The Use of Computers in History and coeditor of The Settling of North America: The Atlas of the Great Migrations into North America from the Ice Age to the Present.

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