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__Chicago Links__
[|Encyclopedia of Chicago] City of Chicago web site Explore Chicago Explore Chicago you tube channel [|From Swamp to City] [|Changing Gears]- Radio project looking at the issues facing the Midwest [|Front and Center-] Project looking at the issues facing the Great Lakes Region [|Chicago Flag] [|Top 40 Lists] [|Chicago Revealed]- A nice Youtube site providing videos of Chicago people and places [|Lonely Planet Chicago Guide] [|Up Chicago Magazine] Chicago Live! Curious City- Answers to interesting questions about Chicago Chicago Video Tour from PBS Chicago 2012 Cultural Plan Pocket Guide to Hell 13 Top small cities in Illinois 10 things not to do in Chicago- Surprisingly good advice =__City Maps__= City of Chicago mapping site and links Interactive city Map Neighborhood Map Ward Map Community Area Map Early Chicago aerial views- Just type Chicago into the search field =__Politics__= __Mayor Daley Speaks__ __Rahm Emmanuel- Chicago Magazine__ __100 most powerful Chicagoans__ Is Rahm’s plan to rebuild Chicago brilliant — or disastrous? Emanuel pushes for Bike Lanes Harold- A wonderful documentary about Chicago's first African-American Mayor

=__Architecture__= __Wkipedia- Chicago Archtecture__ [|Nova- Trapped in an Elevator] [|Chicago's Top 40 Buildings] Open House Chicago [|The Sky's the Limit] City of Chicago landmarks web [|Landmark Data Base] [|Emporis] [|Chicago Architecture Today] [|Video Tours of Chicago- Geoffrey Baer- WTTW] [|Burnham Plan at 100] [|Burnham article in the Reader] [|Structurae-] Good site for individual buildings and architects [|Chicago Skyscrapers] [|Chicago Buildings] [|Chicago Architecture Info- by Architect] [|Chicago Architecture info- Home] [|Harry Weese] Stanley Tigerman Interview Forgotten Chicago

__Historical Links__
[|Chicago Days- Defining Moments in a Great City- Chicago Tribune] [|Defining Moments Photos] [|Top 40 Chicago Pioneers] [|Chicago Fire Pictures] [|Interview with Dominic Pacyga] [|Studs Terkel Division Street America Interviews] Railroad Maps

=**__1893 World's Fair__**= [|Photo gallery] [|Ideas, Experience, Aftermath of the Fair] Virtual Tour of the Fair

=**__Great Depression and World War Two__**= [|Studs Terkel Interviews of Depression Era personalities] [|Studs Terkel Interviews with WWII Vets] =__Great Lakes and River Links__= [|Great Lakes Intro Video] [|River Reversal] [|The Great Lakes Century]- [|Pieces of the Vision Video Overview] [|Century Vision Video] [|Terminator Carp] [|Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Initiative] [|Regional Vision for the Great Lakes] [|Quagga Mussels] [|Great Lakes Cleanup Video] =__Immigration and Neighborhoods__= [|Map of blacks/Hispanics/whites in city as of 2000] [|Changes in Population for whites/blacks/Hispanics 2000-2010 for the region] [|Changes in Population for whites/blacks/Hispanics 2000-2010 for Chicago] [|Ethnic change maps from 1990-2000] [|Immigration Graph] [|US Immigration site from Fordham University] [|Encyclopedia of Chicago] [|Explore Chicago Neighborhood links] [|Maxwell Street scenes] [|Black Metropolis] [|Black population change with maps] Black Chicago Renaissance [|Great Migration] Jazz and the Great Migration- Ken Burns [|Studs Terkel Interviews on Race] [|Going to Chicago-] A documentary on the Great Migration [|__Geoffrey Baer Videos__] [|Foods of Chicago] Hot Dog Links [|Biking the Boulevrds] [|Hidden Chicago] [|Immigration Map] [|Mexican Immigration] [|Immigration links at Loopster] 24 Hours at the Golden Apple- Ever wonder what it's like at 2 AM at an all night diner- Here's the radio documentary for you. Strangers in a Strange Land: Great stories about displaced people. Listen to the opening story. An Immigrant Class: links to book home page which is used in class Brown Line Video

=__Neighborhoods__= [|Andersonville Video] [|Eat Play Love] Anthony Bourdain- No Reservations Chicago Episode =__Chicago Music__= Chicago 2012 Cultural Plan [|Chicago Blues Documentary] featuring Muddy Waters [|Blues Documentary Part One featuring Chess Records and Muddy Waters] [| Blues Documentary Part Two starts with Maxwell Street] BBC Chess Records Blues Documentary: [|Part One];[| Part Two]; [|Part Three]; [|Part Four] Chicago History Fair Blues documentary Chicago Blues Online Tour narrated by Buddy Guy Buddy Guy Interview [|Chicago Blues Living History with timeline] [|Encyclopedia of Chicago Blues History] The story of Chicago House Music Jazz in Chicago Chicago Jazz Archive from the U of C Chicago Jazz Artists links Chicago jazz and the Great Migration Secret History of Chicago Music from the Reader

__Chicago Sports__
[|Cubs Documentary] Basketball: Radio Documentary about the grip of the 1996 Bulls on Chicago life 16 inch softball: 16-inch origins The Glory of 16-inch softball

__Miscellaneaous__
Rats in Chicago Coyotes and rats in Chicago Munger Road Why you should never leave Chicago