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21Title:  The story of old Fort Dearborn    
 Creator:  Currey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), 1844-1928 
 Publication:  A.C. McClurg, Chicago,1912. 
 Notes:  Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. 
 Call #:  B 8039 
 Extent:  173 p. front., plates, ports., maps, facsim. 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Massacres -- Illinois -- Chicago | Chicago (Ill.) -- History
 
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22Title:  Chicago, the wonder city    
 Creator:  Seeger, Eugen, 1851- 
 Publication:  G. Gregory Printing Co, Chicago,1893. 
 Notes:  At head of title: 1837, 1871, 1893. 
 Call #:  F38ZC S45 
 Extent:  xii, 451 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Chicago (Ill.) | Chicago (Ill.) -- History
 
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23Title:  Municipal history and present organization of the city of Chicago    
 Creator:  Sparling, Samuel Edwin, 1866- 
 Publication:  Madison, Wis,1898. 
 Notes:  Bibliography: p. 176-184. 
 Call #:  H31 W809 v.2, no.2 
 Extent:  188 p. 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Chicago (Ill.) -- Politics and government | Chicago (Ill.) -- History
 
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24Title:  John Kinzie: the "father of Chicago" ; a sketch    
 Creator:  Gordon, Eleanor Lytle Kinzie, 1835-1917 
 Publication:  Savannah? Ga,c1910] 
 Notes:  On cover: John Kinzie, Chicago's pioneer, a sketch. 
 Call #:  P 1728 
 Extent:  31 p. plates, fold. facsim. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Kinzie, John, -- 1763-1828 | Chicago (Ill.) -- History
 
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25Title:  The Lakeside annual directory of the City of Chicago    
 Publication:  Chicago Directory Co. [etc.], Chicago, Ill,1875-1917. 
 Notes:  Description based on: 1916. 
 Call #:  F38ZG 
 Extent:  v. ; 33 cm. 
 Subjects:  Chicago (Ill.) -- Directories | Chicago (Ill.) -- History
 
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26Title:  The Rail-roads, history and commerce of Chicago    
 Creator:  Daily Democratic Press 
 Publication:  Democratic Press Job and Book Steam Printing Office, Chicago,1854. 
 Notes:  Text ends on page 71; remaining pages are devoted to advertisements. "Second edition of five thousand copies."--p. 3. 
 Call #:  Pam. R782 
 Extent:  80 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Chicago (Ill.) -- Commerce | Chicago (Ill.) -- History
 
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27Title:  Chicago, her history and her adornment    
 Creator:  McIlvaine, Mabel 
 Publication:  C.D. Peacock, Chicago,c1926. 
 Notes:  "Illustrations sketched from figurines and relics of the Chicago Historical Society." On cover: "Great Northern Railway Company. Compliments of C. D. Peacock, Chicago." 
 Call #:  Pam. M1154 
 Extent:  47 p. illus. 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Chicago (Ill.) -- History | Chicago (Ill.) -- Description and travel
 
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28Title:  Chicago surface lines: an illustrated history    
 Creator:  Lind, Alan R. 
 Publication:  Transport History Press, Park Forest, Ill,c1974. 
 Call #:  F38ZND L742 
 Extent:  400 p. illus. 29 cm. 
 Subjects:  Street-railroads -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History | Local transit -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History | Chicago (Ill.) -- History
 
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29Title:  The Irish in Chicago    
 Creator:  McCaffrey, Lawrence John, 1925- 
 Publication:  University of Illinois Press, Urbana,c1987. 
 Notes:  Includes index. Bibliography: p. [159]-162. 
 Call #:  F38ZSL I6I68 
 Extent:  xii, 171 p., [13] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Irish Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History | Chicago (Ill.) -- Ethnic relations | Chicago (Ill.) -- History
 
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30Title:  Poles in America: their contribution to a century of progress : a commemorative souvenir book compiled and published on the occasion of the Polish Week of Hospitality, July 17 to 23, a Century of Progress International Exposition, 1933    
 Creator:  Polish Day Association 
 Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.)
 Publication:  Polish Day Association, Chicago, Ill,[1933?] 
 Notes:  English or Polish. 
 Call #:  F38ZSL P7P766 
 Extent:  263 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. 
 Subjects:  Polish Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History | Polish Americans -- History | Chicago (Ill.) -- History
 
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31Title:  Lost Chicago    
 Creator:  Lowe, David, 1933- 
 Publication:  Houghton Mifflin, Boston,1975. 
 Notes:  Includes bibliographical references and index. 
 Call #:  NA735 C532L9 
 Extent:  xii, 241 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. 
 Subjects:  Lost architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago | Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc | Chicago (Ill.) -- History
 
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32Title:  Recollections of seventy years    
 Creator:  Chetlain, Augustus L. (Augustus Louis), 1824-1914 
 Publication:  The Gazette Publishing Company, Galena,1899. 
 Notes:  Bound in green cloth; stamped in gold and blind; decorated endpapers. Inscribed by the author to a member of his Civil War staff. 
 Call #:  E467.1 C52C5 
 Extent:  [1]-304p. : ill. ; 21.3 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives | Galena (Ill.) -- History | Chicago (Ill.) -- History
 
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33Title:  Old Monroe Street: notes on the Monroe Street of early Chicago days    
 Creator:  Mack, Edwin F. (Edwin Frederick), b. 1860 
 Publication:  Central Trust Company of Illinois, Chicago,c1914. 
 Call #:  F38ZD M153 
 Extent:  83 p. : ill., map. ; 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Streets -- Illinois -- Chicago | Chicago (Ill.) -- History | Monroe Street (Chicago, Ill.)
 
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34Title:  Lost Maramech and earliest Chicago: a history of the Foxes and of their downfall near the great village of Maramech    
 Creator:  Steward, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1841-1915 
 Publication:  F.H. Revell Co, Chicago,1903. 
 Call #:  E99 F794S 
 Extent:  390 p. 22 plates, facsim. 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Fox Indians -- History | Kendall County (Ill.) -- Antiquities | Chicago (Ill.) -- History
 
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35Title:  Antoine Ouilmette, a resident of Chicago A.D. 1790-1826: The first settler of Evanston and Wilmette (1826-1838) with a brief history of his family and the Ouilmette reservation    
 Creator:  Grover, Frank R. (Frank Reed), b. 1858 
 Publication:  Evanston Historical Society, Evanston, Ill.],1908. 
 Call #:  Pam. G724 
 Extent:  26 p. pl. 
 Subjects:  Ouilmette, Antoine, 1760-1841 | Chicago (Ill.) -- History | Evanston (Ill.) -- History
 
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36Title:  The discovery and conquests of the Northwest: including the early history of Chicago, Detroit, Vincennes, St. Louis, Ft. Wayne, Prairie du Chien, Marietta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, etc., etc., and incidents of pioneer life in the region of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley    
 Creator:  Blanchard, Rufus, 1821-1904 
 Haines, Elijah M. (Elijah Middlebrook), 1822-1889
 Publication:  Cushing, Thomas & Co, Chicago,1880. 
 Notes:  Includes index. "Indian names. By E. M. Haines": p. 475-484. "Washington's journal of a tour to the Ohio, in 1753. With notes by John G. Shea": p. [1]-30, at end. 
 Call #:  F33D B639 
 Extent:  484, [1], 30, iv p., [18] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Northwest, Old | Indians of North America -- Names | Northwest, Old -- History | Chicago (Ill.) -- History
 
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37Title:  Discovery and conquests of the North-west, with the history of Chicago    
 Creator:  Blanchard, Rufus, 1821-1904 
 Publication:  R. Blanchard & Co, Wheaton [Ill.],1879. 
 Notes:  Text is the same as in his "Discovery and conquests of the Northwest", except the part relating to Chicago, which is much enlarged. Issued in parts. 
 Call #:  F38ZD B639 
 Extent:  768 p. plates, maps (part double) 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Chicago (Ill.) -- History | Illinois -- History | Northwest, Old -- History | Ohio River Valley -- History
 
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38Title:  Wau-bun, the "early day" in the North-west    
 Creator:  Kinzie, John H.Mrs, 1806-1870 
 Publication:  Derby & Jackson, D.B. Cooke & Co. [etc., etc.], New York, Chicago,1856. 
 Call #:  F42JE K56W1 
 Extent:  xii, 13-498 p. front., plates. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Frontier and pioneer life -- Illinois | Frontier and pioneer life -- Wisconsin | Northwest, Old -- Description and travel | Chicago (Ill.) -- History
 
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39Title:  George M. Pullman, Thomas McCalla and Alfred W. Davisson in Chicago: early history of Chicago ... : excerpts from the Hamill genealogy and the McCalla genealogy    
 Creator:  McCalla, Paul H. 
 Publication:  s.n, Chicago, Ill,1939?] 
 Notes:  Cover title. Typescript (carbon copy) 
 Call #:  McCalla family, Red File 
 Extent:  [24] p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm. 
 Subjects:  McCalla family | Hamill family | Pullman, George M | Davisson, Alfred W | Chicago (Ill.) -- History
 
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40Title:  Father Pierre Franðcois Pinet, S.J., and his Mission of the guardian angel of Chicago (l'Ange gardien) A.D. 1696-1699    
 Parent:  Chicago Historical Society. [Proceedings] 1905- [v.3] p. [153]-180    
 Creator:  Grover, Frank Reed, 1858- 
 Publication:  Chicago,1907. 
 Call #:  F38ZB C532P v.3 
 Extent:  [28] p. front., 2 pl., fold. plan. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Pinet, Pierre Franðcois, -- 1660-1704? | Jesuits -- Missions | Miami Indians -- Missions | Chicago (Ill.) -- History
 
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