Resources

FEATURED ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS

57th Street Art Fair. Records, 1964-2007

Austin Community Collection, 1839-1981

Beverly-Morgan Park Collection, 1874-2010

Body Politic Theatre Collection

Chicago Sun-Times Collection of Visual Materials, ca. 1921-2001, bulk 1960-1999

Harold Washington Archives and Collections, Mayoral Records, Press Office Photographs, 1979-1991.

Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference. Records, 1895-2011

JoAnn Elam Collection, 1967-1990

Judith Roth Papers, ~1945-2008

Manifest Urban Arts Festival Programs

Media Burn Independent Film Archive

O’Quinn Family Papers, circa 1937-circa 1987, undated

Randolph Street Gallery Archives, 1979-1998

South Shore Newspaper Collection, 1894-1982

University of Chicago Photographic Collection

William McBride, Jr. Papers, 1907-1995

BOOKS

Cahan, Richard and Michael Williams. Edgar Miller and the Handmade Home: Chicago’s Forgotten Renaissance Man. Chicago: City Files Press, 2009.

Cain, Mary Ann. South Side Venus: The Legacy of Margaret Burroughs. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018.

Dyja, Thomas. The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream. New York: Penguin Books, 2014.

Hine, Darlene Clark and John McCloskey. The Black Chicago Renaissance. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012.

Holli, Melvin G. and Peter d’A. Jones, editors. Ethnic Chicago: A Multicultural Portrait. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995.

Knupfer, Anne Meis. The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women’s Activism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Pacyga, Dominic A. Chicago: A Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Richman, Julie, and Mary Louise Womer. Chicago’s 57th Street Art Fair: The First Fifty Years, 1948-1997. Chicago: Published by 57th Street Art Fair, 1997.

Sundell, Ivy. The Chicago Art Scene. Evanston, IL: Crow Woods Publishing, 1998.

Sundell, Ivy. Art Scene Chicago 2000. Evanston, IL: Crow Woods Publishing, 2000.

Taft, Maggie, Robert Cozzolino, Judith Kirshner, and Erin Hogan, editors. Art in Chicago: A HIstory from the Fire to Now. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Warren, Lynne, Jeff Abel, and Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.). Art in Chicago, 1945-1995. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996.

Zorach, Rebecca, and Marisa H. Baker. The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960-1980. Chicago: David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, 2018.

DIGITAL RESOURCES

Chicago Art Galleries Project. School of the Art Institute and Art Institute of Chicago, n.d.

City Beyond the White City: Race, Two Chicago Homes, and Their Neighborhoods, 1892-2022. Society of Architectural Historians, 2022.

Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago. Chicago Historical Society, 2005.

SERIALS

Art … Chicago at Navy Pier. Chicago: Art Chicago Exhibition, annual, 1993-2002.

Art Fair Directory. Chicago: Illinois Arts Council, annual, 1985-2008.

Art Fairs in Chicago. Chicago: Council on Fine Arts, 1977-1983.

Chicago Daily News. Chicago newspaper, 1875-1978.

Chicago Defender. Chicago newspaper, 1910-1975. ProQuest Historical Newspapers database.

Chicago Reader. Chicago weekly newspaper, 1971-present. Chicago Reader, Inc.

Chicago Shoreland News. Chicago weekly newspaper, 197-. AJA Enterprises, Inc.

Chicago Sun-Times. Chicago newspaper, 1929-present.News Group Chicago database.

Chicago Tribune. Chicago newspaper, 1849-1990. ProQuest Historical Newspapers database.

Chicago Tribune. Chicago newspaper, 1985-present. ProQuest US Major Dailies database.

Hyde Park Herald. Chicago newspaper, 1885-2008. Herald Newspapers Inc. and Digital Libraries Consulting database.

Illinois Art Fairs. Chicago: Illinois Council on Fine Arts, annual, 1982.