33 East Wacker Drive
Suite 250
312-670-7770
info@aiachicago.org

Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Ave.

224 South Michigan Ave.
312-922-3432
info@architecture.org

1601 N. Clark St.

320 N. Clark St.
312-744-3200

121 N. Lasalle St.
312-744-3419
Department of Buildings
City of Chicago

400 S. State St.
312-747-4300
hwlc@chipublib.org

312-996-2742
lib-maps@uic.edu
801 S. Morgan St.
Maps Unit
Special Colections
Richard J. Daley Library
University of Illinois Chicago

60 W. Walton St.
312-943-9090

1365 N. Astor St.
sahchicago@gmail.com

See section on Captions and Exhibit labels

Writing Effective Interpretive Labels for Art Exhibitions

See Section B.III Label Design and Text (page 17)

HathiTrust is a digital library providing access to millions of digitized books, journals, newspapers, and other various titles through partnerships with academic and research institutions. Use this resource for broad subject searches.

Provides a searching platform to find information about Chicago buildings, architects, and general information related to Chicago landmarks.

Created by the Library of Congress, this resource provides access to information about prominent structures throughout the U.S. with drawings, photographs, and data sheets.

An architecture and landscape database of independent college and university campuses. This project presents information about significant buildings, landscapes, campus plans, and heritage sites of American higher education and identifies sources for further research.

A series of publications generated by the Alumni Office at Columbia College Chicago. Note: early issues from 1954 through 1977 may reference campus buildings.

Issues of the Columbia College Chicago student newspaper from 1973 to present. Note: early issues from 1973 through 1977 may reference campus buildings.

A collection of Academic Catalogs for Columbia College of Expression and Columbia College from 1893 through 2010. Many provide detailed information about curriculum and offer a glimpse into Columbia’s past by providing information about courses, student resources, academic programs, and campus information.

This Architecture and Building History Resource, created by the Research Center at the Chicago History Museum, provides a wealth of information and lead to resources about architecture and building history.

The link leads to the “Historic Preservation” entry on the Encyclopedia of Chicago, providing information about the movements in Chicagoland to preserve historical architecture.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Researching your property by the Commission on Chicago Landmarks

Presented by Tim Wittman on October 12, 2005

Presented by Tim Wittman on October 12, 2005

Presented by Dominic Pacyga on October 19, 2005

Brief history of the South Loop campus buildings

Architectural Histories is an international, blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal that creates a space where historically grounded research into all aspects of architecture and the built environment can be made public, consulted, and discussed. The journal is open to historical, historiographic, theoretical, and critical contributions that engage with architecture and the built environment from a historical perspective.

The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians features articles on American and international topics, reviews of recently-published books and architecture exhibitions with an intellectual context. It is an indispensable resource for architectural history, and it can be of interest to those in fields such as urban studies, history, and cultural studies.

An online guide providing information about how to use the Chicago Manual of Style for citing resources.