1. Chicago: Nature’s Metropolis

6. The Erie Canal opened the West in 1830s via the Mohawk River Valley

8. Chicago: Stacy’s Tavern at Five Points, 1840

11. Stacy’s Tavern at 5 points, 1989

12. Chicago Lake Front, 1853

13. 1871

14. 1872, the great fire

17. Haymarket Square Riot, 1886

20. Hull House, 1889

22. Daniel Burnham, the father of American City Planning and the architect of the Columbian Expo/World’s Fair 1893 & Plan of Chicago 1909

25. The Chicago World’s Fair, aka The Columbian Exposition, aka The White City, 1893 Galvin Library Digital History Galvin Library Digital History

30. The Plan of Chicago, 1909 A gift to the city by the Chicago Merchants club, it was the first comprehensive city plan.

32. Riverside Plan, 1869, the first US planned community, Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux

33. 2007

34. Riverside was planned on the rail line between the Chicago Loop, now the Miracle Mile, and parts West

35. Al CaponeAl Capone, 1899-1947

36. The Sears Tower, now the Willis Building, was once the world’s tallest building at 108 stories. Sears moved to the suburbs.

39. Southside & Westside Chicago, dominantly African American

41. Le Corbusier’s Radiant City, Model for central Paris, 1935

44. Cabrini Green, 1958-95

47. Cabrini Green, redeveloped 2007

48. Democratic National Convention and the Chicago 7, 1968

49. Fred Hampton, Black Panther spokesman, murdered by the Chicago PD as he slept, 1969 Roland Kirk, Say a little prayer, 1969

50. Why the Black Panthers scared white America to death.

51. Picasso

52. Calder

53. duBuffet

54. Chicago Blues Loud Gritty Electric

57. Buddy GuyBuddy Guy, Lettsworth, LA, 1936 2011 Blues Grammy at age 75