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Chicago Crime and Punishment

This is a guide to historical sources on crime focusing on the collections in the Chicago Collections Consortium.

CCC Reference

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Archival Sources

Law collections

Judiciary collections

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. Policeman, Anton Calek, sitting in a room, May 3, 1916. Chicago History Museum, http://explore.chicagocollections.org/image/chicagohistory/71/4j0b80n/

Books and Other Published Sources

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