This page was created by Gretchen Neidhardt.
Credits and Additional Resources
Participating Members
Because we are such a diverse consortium, not all of our members were able to contribute sports material to this exhibit. You can see all of our members on our website, but we wanted to credit those that were able to contribute this time around. Stay tuned for more exhibits and more participants in the future!- Art Institute of Chicago
- The Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
- Chicago Botanic Garden
- Chicago History Museum
- Chicago Public Library
- Chicago Zoological Society's Brookfield Zoo
- DePaul University
- Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park Archives
- Frances Willard Historical Association
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Lincoln Park Zoo
- Loyola University Chicago
- Newberry Library
- Northwestern University
- Theatre Historical Society of America
- University of Chicago
- University of Illinois at Chicago
Digital Exhibit Task Force
Thanks also to our task force members who made this website possible:- Kate Flynn, Chicago Collections (co-Coordinator)
- Gretchen Neidhardt, Chicago History Museum (co-Coordinator)
- Rachel Shaevel, Chicago Public Library (co-Coordinator)
- Chris Day, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Matt Krc, Newberry Library
- Greer Martin, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Andrew Rea, DePaul University
- Dominic Rossetti, Columbia College Chicago
- Stacy Stoldt, Chicago Botanic Garden
Recommended Reading
All of our recommended reading sources are compiled here. Please note that starred resources (*) are available online through ProQuest Historic Newspapers, a subscription database. For access, you can visit or email one of our member institutions, many of which have a subscription. Many public and academic libraries across the United States also offer access to this database.- "2012 Chicago 7 Most Threatened Chicago's Historic Movie Theaters," Preservation Chicago (2012)
- Asinof, Eliot, Eight Men Out: the Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (1963)
- Austin, Joe Alan and Michael Willard, Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth-Century America (1998)
- Bachin, Robin F., "Black Sox Scandal," Encyclopedia of Chicago (2005)
- Bachrach, Julia, The City In A Garden: A Photographic History of Chicago's Parks (2001)
- Bachrach, Julia, "Park Districts," Encyclopedia of Chicago (2005)
- Borish, Linda J., David K. Wiggins, and Gerald R. Gems (editors), The Routledge History of American Sport (2017)
- *Bowman, Jim, "The Way We Were: A South Side sharpshooter brings home a national title," Chicago Tribune (March 27, 1983)
- "Bicycling," City of Chicago Department of Transportation website (undated)
- Blatchford Family Papers, The Newberry Library, Chicago
- Carney, Gene, Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded (2007)
- Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum blog (various dates)
- "Chicago's History of Horticulture," Chicago Flower and Garden Show website (undated)
- *"City Boys Vie at Marbles for Title of Champ," Chicago Daily Tribune (April 21, 1940)
- Cooper, Pamela Lynne, The American Marathon (1998)
- Crate, Tiffany, "Fitness and Athletic Clubs," Encyclopedia of Chicago (2005)
- Desai, Manan, "The 'Tan Stranger' from Ceylon," South Asian American Digital Archive (July 8, 2014)
- *"Display Ad 49 - No Title," Chicago Tribune (May 15, 1984)
- Eliot Asinof papers (Chicago History Museum)
- *"Foot-Ball: The Chicago Foot-Ball Club," Chicago Daily Tribune (May 24, 1876)
- Forel, Marianna, "Biking in Chicago: A Long History of a Strong Community," Chicago Detours website (June 28, 2012)
- Garbus, Julia, and Noah Berlatsky, "Bison, American," Gale Virtual Reference Library (2016)
- Goldstein, Richard, "Otto Graham, 82, Dies; Cleveland Dynasty's Quarterback," New York Times (December 18, 2003)
- Gomery, Douglas, "Movie Palaces," Encyclopedia of Chicago (2005)
- Gorn, Elliot J. (editor), Sports in Chicago (2008)
- Greenberg, Joel, A Natural History of the Chicago Region (2004)
- "Hacking Hemingway: Cracking the Code to the Vault," Oak Park Public Library and Ernest Hemingway Foundation website (2015)
- Hemingway, Ernest, Hemingway at Oak Park: The High School Writings of Ernest Hemingway 1916-1917 (1993)
- Hersh, Phil, "A Chicago-Style Pan Am Games," Chicago Tribune (July 19, 1987)
- "History," Lincoln Park Boat Club website (undated)
- Holubow, Eric and Roger Ebert, "Chicago’s Once-Grand Movie Palaces," Chicago Magazine (January 11, 2013)
- "How Fast Can the Average Human Run?" Reference.com (undated)
- Inwood, Joel, "The Chicago Coliseum, 1513 S. Wabash Ave. (1900-1982)," South Loop Historical Society website (October 8, 2013)
- Kemper, Kurt Edward, College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era (2009)
- Litas, Lee A, "Brookfield Zoo Runners Race to Save Animals," Evanston Review (September 22, 2015)
- "Louis Sullivan," Chicago Architecture Foundation website (undated)
- Maloney, Cathy Jean, Chicago Gardens: The Early History (2008)
- "A Mini-bike History: From Daley To Daley," Chicago Tribune (June 25, 2000)
- "Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo," Studio Gang website (2010)
- "Northwestern Historical Timeline," Northwestern University Sesquicentennial website (2001)
- O'Reilly, Jean and Susan K. Cahn (editors), Women and Sports in the United States: A Documentary Reader (2007)
- "Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving," Athletics Weekly website (undated)
- Pickard, George, "History of Inline Hockey," USA Roller Sports website (2007)
- Professional Football Hall of Fame website (various dates)
- Schmidt, Raymond, "Bowling," Encyclopedia of Chicago (2005)
- Smith, Lissa (editor), Nike is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports (1999)
- Station, Elizabeth, "Scholar from Afar," The University of Chicago Magazine (June 28, 2013)
- Terry, Don, "Mike Royko, the Voice of the Working Class, Dies at 64," New York Times (April 30, 1997)
- Thelin, John R., A History of American Higher Education (2011)
- Wade, Louise Carroll, "Settlement Houses," Encyclopedia of Chicago (2005)
- "Wildcats: A History of Football at Northwestern," Northwestern University Archives website (undated)
- Willard, Frances Elizabeth, A Wheel Within a Wheel (1895)