A path breaking reference work that features biographies of more than 400 women who helped build modern day Chicago. 158 photos.

Jane Addams's early attempt to empower the people with information

When Juliette Kinzie first visited Chicago in 1831, it was anything but a city. An outpost in the shadow of Fort Dearborn, it had no streets, no sidewalks, no s

Focusing on Chicago and downstate Illinois politics during the incredibly oppressive decades between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the election of Frank