Lesson Plans for Grades K-12

recommended for GRADES 9-12

Developing a Gateway to the West: A Chicago Success Story
Kevin Clary (South Stokes High School – Walnut Cove, NC)
Richard Mertz (Oak Park/River Forest High School – Oak Park, IL)

Books, Articles, Maps, Videos

Abu-Lughod, Janet. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America’s Global Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.

Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863–1869. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000.

Belcher, Wyatt Winton. The Economic Rivalry between St. Louis and Chicago, 1850-1880. New York: Columbia University Press, 1947.

Chicago: City of the Century. DVD or VHS. PBS, 2003.

Colton’s Guidebook through the United States of America. New York: J.H. Colton, 1850. Colton’s Map of North America. New York: J. H. Colton, 1857.

Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1991.

Fisher, Richard, ed. Colton’s Western Tourist and Emigrant’s Guides. New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1854 and 1857.

Illustrations of Greater Chicago. Chicago: J.M. Wing and Co., 1875.

Meinig, D.W. The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Vol. 2, Continental America 1800-1867. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

On-Line Resources
Art Institute of Chicago. Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890-1940. [Exhibit] http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/window.html

Chicago Metropolis 2020: The Chicago Plan for the 21st century. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/402002.html

U.S. Bureau of the Census homepage. www.census.gov

U.S. Bureau of the Census, State Data Center. www.sdcbidc.iupui.edu