Chicago

Chicago - Growth of a Metropolis: A glance at Chicago around the 1920s. Excerpted from the book by Harold M. Mayer and Richard C. Wade.
Black Metropolis: A look at the African American experience in Chicago around the 1920s. Excerpted from St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Clayton’s Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City.
Black Metropolis - The Great Migration: Examining the Great Migration with an eye to its effects on Chicago. Excerpted from St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Clayton’s Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City.
Encyclopedia of Chicago History: Follow this link for a quite comprehensive store of information related to Chicago, with an impressive collection of historical documents. Note that this site includes a Chicago Blues page.