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Ride the rails in style Train cars from the 1940s

When you could ride the rails in style: Train cars from the 1940s

Retro rooms: See these 12 themed vintage basement remodels, from the wacky to the wonderful (1948)

Kerner Commission: Racism confronted after months of soul-searching (1968)

Kerner Commission: Prejudice – A name for racism (1968)

Looking back at the history of Chicago (1977)

Racism in America: The Kerner Report (1968)

Cross the country with these vintage US road maps

Jefferson’s secret message to congress about Lewis & Clark (1803)

Ambrotype portrait of Abraham Lincoln (1860)

Kerner Commission: Use of ‘overforce’ criticized (1968)

Kerner Report: President’s riot commission learned from the people (1968)

Kerner Commission: Racism has no simple cure (1968)

A view on birth control from 1915

fine farming land in illinois 1863

Illinois: Farm land from $8 to $12 an acre (1863)

The Great Chicago Fire, as the story unfolded (1871)

St Louis tornado blew 80 miles an hour (1896)

Two tornadoes meet in St Louis – 100s killed (1896)

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