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Block Club Chicago: Photographer Unveils Photos Of CPS Students In The ’70s — Are You In Them?. “The Highland Park-based former teacher and documentary photographer, who closed her darkroom 20 years ago and has been digitizing her photography collection, has always been curious about the kids she captured. Now that over 50 years have passed since her classroom photos were taken, she’s […]

Block Club Chicago: Photographer Unveils Photos Of CPS Students In The ’70s — Are You In Them?. “The Highland Park-based former teacher and documentary photographer, who closed her darkroom 20 years ago and has been digitizing her photography collection, has always been curious about the kids she captured. Now that over 50 years have passed since her classroom photos were taken, she’s […]

Block Club Chicago: Photographer Unveils Photos Of CPS Students In The ’70s — Are You In Them?. “The Highland Park-based former teacher and documentary photographer, who closed her darkroom 20 years ago and has been digitizing her photography collection, has always been curious about the kids she captured. Now that over 50 years have passed since her classroom photos were taken, she’s […]

Block Club Chicago: Photographer Unveils Photos Of CPS Students In The ’70s — Are You In Them?. “The Highland Park-based former teacher and documentary photographer, who closed her darkroom 20 years ago and has been digitizing her photography collection, has always been curious about the kids she captured. Now that over 50 years have passed since her classroom photos were taken, she’s […]

Block Club Chicago: Photographer Unveils Photos Of CPS Students In The ’70s — Are You In Them?. “The Highland Park-based former teacher and documentary photographer, who closed her darkroom 20 years ago and has been digitizing her photography collection, has always been curious about the kids she captured. Now that over 50 years have passed since her classroom photos were taken, she’s […]

Lake Mendota and Fitzgerald Airport, Mendota, Illinois Postcard
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#MendotaIllinois #LakeMendota #FitzgeraldAirport #VintageAviation #HistoricAirfield #SmallTownAmerica #IllinoisHistory #AerialPhotography #VintagePostcard #OldAirports #RuralAviation #AviationHeritage #MidwestHistory #ClassicPlanes #AviationNostalgia

WAND: Illinois State Museum launches online database of 100 oral histories of Route 66. “The Illinois State Museum is launching an online database of 100 oral histories about Route 66. The Route 66 Oral History Project database includes video-recorded interviews and world-searchable written transcriptions.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/06/wand-illinois-state-museum-launches-online-database-of-100-oral-histories-of-route-66/

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: What was life in Chicago like in 2000? . “From January to December that year, more than 200 photographers, videographers and journalists captured moments like these to create a time capsule of life in Chicago at the turn of the millennium. The project, called CITY 2000, resulted in more than 500,000 images and nearly 800 audio and video recordings… […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/05/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-what-was-life-in-chicago-like-in-2000/

Do you have items that tell the story of how your family came to Madison County? We'd love to take a look! The Madison County Historical Society, in collaboration with SIUE's IRIS Center and Department of History, is hosting a History Harvest on the theme of migration and immigration.

#HistoryHarvest #DigitalHumanities #PublicHumanities #IllinoisHistory #ImmigrationHistory #AmericanHistory #Museum #MuseumStudies #LocalHistory #CitizenArchivist #Edwardsville #EdwardsvilleIllinois