About this Exhibit

Most of the Photographs and documents in this exhibit are taken from the Forest Preserves District of Cook County collection in the Special Collections Department of Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago. These materials represent only a small portion of the materials available in this collection, which is scheduled to be made available to the public by 2011. 
    
Other materials have been taken from the following collections in the Special Collections Department, Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago: 
Education in Chicago-Pamphlet Collection
Hull-House Association Collection
The Jane Addams Personal Library Collection
The Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana
The Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe Collection
The Rare Books Collection

To view finding aids for these and other collections, visit our website at: 
http://library.uic.edu/home/collections/manuscripts-and-rare-books. 

Or visit us at:
Special Collections Department 
Richard J. Daley Library 
University of Illinois at Chicago 
801 S. Morgan St. M/C 234 
Room 3-330 
Chicago, IL 60607 
Phone: (312) 996-2742

FUNDING 
This exhibit is made possible by a generous grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.
(http://www.gddf.org)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The following persons contributed to this project: 
Exa Von Alt, Graduate Assistant, Curator
Matthew Popovich, Graduate Assistant, Curator
Dan Harper, Graduate Assistant, Curator
Dan Brunsvold, Graduate Assistant, Curator
Traci Hercher, Assistant Photographer, Web Designer
Peggy Glowacki, Archival Operations and Reference Specialist, Project Director
Additional assistance provided by:
Jessica Applebee
Amanda Lettner
Sylvie Rollason-Cass
Resource Management Department, Forest Preserve District of Cook County (http://www.fpdcc.com)

COPYRIGHT
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