UIC Library News

The groundbreaking separation of a pair of conjoined twins is documented in an exhibit of papers, photographs and other materials at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Library of the Health Sciences – Chicago .
In 1952, Dr. Oscar Sugar (1914-2008), a faculty member of the University of Illinois Department of Neurosurgery, led the pioneering surgery […]

Hundreds of photographs and other graphic materials from the UIC Library’s collections are freely available online, providing easy access to visual documentation of past events, social movements, architecture and the built environment, and prominent historical figures.
There are five UIC Library collections in the CARLI Digital Collections database, established by the Consortium of Academic […]

The UIC Library presents a program in conjunction with the city-wide Festival of Maps. on Thursday March 20, 2008, from 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm, in Special Collections, Richard J. Daley Library, 3rd Floor South, 801 S. Morgan.
Speakers are Robert W. Karrow, Jr., Curator of Special Collections and Curator of Maps, The Newberry Library […]

Official photographs of the Enchanted Island, the Sky Ride Trolley, the House of Tomorrow, and infamous fan dancer Sally Rand soon will be available in a digital collection, Images of Progress: Views of A Century of Progress International Exposition, 1933-1934.
The UIC Library’s Department of Special Collections and University Archives received a $20,000 grant to digitize […]

The UIC Library’s Special Collections department has launched an online interpretive exhibit about how the residents of seven Chicago settlement houses worked to improve the lives of people living in poor neighborhoods during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
The exhibit includes 100 photographs and documents from Henry Booth House, Bethlehem-Howell Neighborhood Center, Off-The-Street Club, Marcy […]

The papers and research files of urban sociologist Pierre de Vise are available in University Archives.
The late researcher was known for declaring Chicago to be America’s most segregated city in his 1967 demographic study, Chicago’s Widening Color Gap. de Vise, who died in 2004, earned a doctorate degree in public policy analysis at UIC […]

The Special Collections Department in the Richard J. Daley Library will expand its hours starting Nov. 10. The department will be open the second Saturday of each month from 10 am – 2 pm. Researchers who want to use the collections during an open Saturday are encouraged to make appointments.

Photographs and other historical materials from UIC’s Special Collections are featured in the film And They Came to Chicago, a documentary describing 150 years of Italians in Chicago. The film highlights the neighborhood of UIC as well as other “Little Italy’s” in Chicago and draws on material from UIC Special Collections, […]

Burt Natarus, Chicago alderman for 36 years, has announced that he is donating his papers and political collections to the University of Illinois at Chicago Library. The collection includes city council proceedings since 1970, financial controller reports, zoning ordinances, scrapbooks of photographs and news articles, and architectural books.
“This donation is a […]

A special exhibit now on view in the first floor lobby of Daley Library is “Building the Future City: Past Visions.” The exhibit features maps, plans, books, and photographs documenting past visions and plans for the City of Chicago.

Highlights include Burnham’s Plan of Chicago (1902), construction of Wacker Drive, and […]