Picturing Illinois authors John Jakle and Keith Sculle appeared on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” program on February 21st. “Chicago Tonight” also posted a gallery of some of the postcard art featured […]
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Robert Lombardo discusses organized Crime in Chicago on PBS
Robert Lombardo discusses his new book Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight. […]
Picturing Illinois in U of I holiday gift guide
Our books make great holiday gifts, and Dusty Rhodes at the University of Illinois News Bureau agrees. She’s included John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle’s Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art […]
Congratulations, Bruno Nettl
The University of Illinois News Bureau reports that UI Press author and U of I Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology, Bruno Nettl, has been awarded the 2014 Charles Homer […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 12
Keith Sculle, co-author of Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo (University of Illinois Press, October 2012), concludes our Postcard of the Day feature with his favorite from […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 11
John Jakle, co-author of Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo (University of Illinois Press, October 2012), reveals his favorite from the book. Figure 131 on page 133 of […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 10
On April 10, 1900, University of Illinois benefactor Arnold Beckman was born in Cullom, Illinois. Fourteen years later this snowy scene of Beckman’s hometown was captured for postcard distribution. Cullom, 1914. No […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 9
Is this Illinois? With the wooded hills in the background, it’s reminiscent of a highway view in West Virginia This is an early 20th Century postcard of Savanna, Illinois, a Mississippi River town […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 8
In recognition of President Obama’s victory, today’s featured postcard is The University of Chicago in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago, ca. 1935. Max Rigot Selling Co., Chicago (#272); C. […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 7
In 2009 we published Steven Ashby and C. J. Hawking’s book Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement. Here’s a postcard view of Decatur’s Staley plant around 1940. The A. E. Staley Manufacturing […]
Chicago Reader features Picturing Illinois
The Chicago Reader reminisces while reading Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo. “Postcards used to be a common form of communication. Particularly with those of a certain era. […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 6
Yesterday the Chicago Bears demolished the Tennessee Titans 51-20 in Nashville. Next week Da Bears come home to Soldier Field to play the Houston Texans. Here’s a postcard of that […]