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A. T. Andreas's An Imaginary View of the Site of Chicago in 1779, in History of Chicago Credit: A. T. Andreas/Edward E. Ayer Collection “Indigenous Chicago,” created through a collaboration between ...

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CHICAGO (CBS) — A team of researchers from Oklahoma has been in Chicago all week at the Newberry Library on the near North Side on a mission to rediscover old stories about the Cherokee Nation. A week ...

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On a chilly March evening while out for a walk with his dog Sparky on the North Side, Robert Miller came upon some books scattered on the sidewalk. Even in the dim light, Miller could see that these ...

The ancient manuscript rested on the shelves of the Newberry Library for more than a century. Little was known about the bound book from colonial Mexico that had been donated to the library in 1911 by ...

The Newberry Library is an independent research library, specializing in the humanities and located in Chicago, Illinois, that has been free and open to the public since 1887. Its collections ...

Chicago — The ancient manuscript rested on the shelves of the Newberry Library for more than a century. Little was known about the bound book from colonial Mexico that had been donated to the library ...

Was Mike Royko the toughest man in Chicago? We shall see, I suppose, when a one-man play opens here in early September at the Chopin Theatre. Mitchell Bisschop is the author and star in what he has ...