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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.

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

WorldCat allows you to search the holdings of libraries around the world. Check to see if these titles are at a library near you! If not, see if a local public library or a university with which you are affiliated allows you to do interlibrary loan.​ WorldCat may not include images or summaries for all titles.