| Dates: | 1821-1993, bulk dates 1938-circa 1980s |
| Size: | 21 linear feet in 41 boxes, including 206 photographs |
| Repository: | Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections, 400 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60605 |
| Collection Number: | spe-c00123 |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition: | Donated by Theodore “Ted” Rich in 1993 |
| Conditions Governing Access: | Materials are open without restrictions. |
| Conditions Governing Use: | Please consult staff to determine ability to reuse materials from collection. |
| Preferred Citation: | When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is: Faith Rich Papers, [Box #, Folder #, Photograph #], Special Collections, Chicago Public Library |
| Finding Aid Author: | Processed by Meghan Courtney, Dominique Fuqua and T.J. Szafranski with the CLIR funded Black Metropolis Research Consortium “Color Curtain Processing Project,” March 20, 2013. Reprocessed by Michelle McCoy, 2020. Updated and ingested into ArchivesSpace by Michelle McCoy, 2021 |
Abstract
Faith Rich (1909-1990) was a white community activist, educator and volunteer with numerous organizations including the Chicago Westside Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Independent Voters of Illinois (IVI), the 15th Place Block Club, the Literacy Council of Chicago and local PTAs. She focused her organizing efforts on issues of civil rights, desegregation of schools and neighborhoods, equality in education, racism and the effect of urban renewal on local communities and especially, her own North Lawndale neighborhood in Chicago. Her collection contains her voluminous correspondence with family, friends and fellow activists along with meeting materials from social justice organizations and a sizeable library of publications that document Chicago’s urban renewal initiatives from the 1950s-1970s.
Biographical/Historical
Faith Rich (1909-1990), née Baldwin, was a white community activist, educator and civil rights advocate. She was born in Vermont in 1909 to a family of farmers. She received a bachelor’s degree from University of Vermont and a doctoral degree in Classics from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania in 1934 but was unable to publish her PhD thesis until 1943. She married fellow Vermont resident, Theodore Freeling Rich, or Ted, in the mid-1930s and joined him in Chicago where he had been completing his graduate work at the University of Chicago.
Upon arriving in Chicago in the 1930s, Rich was hired by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to create a farm journal, but soon found herself organizing laundry workers for the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU). During this time, she became acquainted with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Rich’s active membership with the NAACP began around 1945 and lasted until her death in 1990. She served in a variety of roles for the local organization, most notably on the Education Committee that she chaired in 1956-1957 at the time that her landmark study, De Facto Segregation in Chicago Public Schools, was released. Additional initiatives included the Textbook Committee’s research and proposed revisions in school textbooks in 1946-1947 to remove bias and better reflect contributions made by African Americans, Catholics, Jews and other groups.
Rich’s mission to achieve racial justice and equality led to her participation with a wide range of other community organizations and projects over the course of her life, especially with regard to issues of education and urban renewal. She served as a member of the George W. Collins High School’s Local School Council, on the board of the Literacy Council of Chicago and worked on education and districting issues with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Independent Voters of Illinois (IVI). Her papers reflect her research and efforts to improve student reading capabilities through the use of phonics and other teaching innovations. As a white activist in her North Lawndale community on Chicago’s West Side, Rich spent decades advocating for housing and other neighborhood stabilization efforts with the 15th Place Block Club (part of the Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission, GLCC). Rich was also interested in how urban renewal affected urban life and socioeconomic opportunity at the city and the community levels. Related to urban development was her lifelong passion for environmental issues and her efforts to transform vacant neighborhood lots into urban gardens.
Throughout her adult life Rich was employed as a temporary office worker, which allowed her flexibility to set her own schedule. She gained a teaching certificate in education, but preferred to work as a substitute teacher or tutor for the same reason. She retired in 1972.
Rich’s husband, Ted, served in Europe during World War II from 1943-1945 where his facility with languages earned him transfer from the Infantry to the Ordnance where he taught German. After the war he worked for the American Medical Association as an editor and writer and also for the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Faith Rich died on March 12, 1990. Ted died in 2009. Faith and Ted Rich had no children.
Scope and Contents
The Faith Rich Papers date from 1821 to 1993, however, the bulk of the material dates from 1938 to 1989 when Rich was active with numerous civic groups and causes. The collection includes Rich’s correspondence; the meeting minutes and materials from various civic groups; and publications, reports and other documentation related to her research and activism. Rich was active with multiple groups simultaneously, however, the organizations with the most documentation in the collection includes the Chicago Westside Branch of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Schools Committee, Independent Voters of Illinois (IVI), Literary Council of Chicago, 15th Place Block Club and the Loglan Institute. The topics covered in Rich’s papers include civil rights, desegregation, education, environmentalism, housing, linguistics, literacy, labor rights, racial justice, urban renewal, voting districts and family matters.
The papers and photographs that date from before 1938 mostly document Theodore Rich’s family and ancestors.
Although the collection is arranged into distinct series there is significant cross over between subjects and/or organizations. Researchers are strongly encouraged to consult the collection broadly.
Arrangement
The papers are organized into four series.
- Series 1: Biographical, 1928-1993
- Series 2: Community Activism and Volunteer Work, 1912-1993
- Series 3: Subject Files, 1935-1990
- Series 4: Theodore Rich Family, 1821-1970
Subject Headings
- 15th Place Block Club
- Chicago (Ill.) Department of Development and Planning
- Chicago (Ill.) Department of Urban Renewal
- Chicago Land Clearance Commission
- Chicago Model Cities Program
- Chicago Plan Commission
- Citizens Schools Committee (Chicago, Ill.)
- Civil rights
- Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks
- Community gardens
- Congress of Racial Equality. Chicago Chapter
- Disabled American Rally for Equality (DARE)
- Douglas Park (Chicago, Ill.)
- Educable Mentally Handicapped (EMH) Coalition
- Independent Voters of Illinois
- International Ladies’ Garment Workers' Union. Workers’ Education Bureau
- George W. Collins High School
- Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission (GLCC)
- Literacy Chicago
- Loglan Institute
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Chicago Branch
- National Peace Institute Foundation (U.S.)
- North Lawndale (Chicago, Ill.)
Parents’ and teachers’ associations - Race relations
- Reading--Phonetic method
- Rich, Faith (1909-1990)
- Rich, Theodore Freeling (1906-2009)
- School integration
- Tabb, Tamaara Danish
- Urban renewal
Related Materials
- Bethel New Life Records
- Chicago Department of Urban Renewal Collection
- CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), Chicago Chapter Archives (Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection, Woodson Regional Library)
- Lawndale-Crawford Community Collection
- Lawndale-Crawford Historical Association Records
- North Lawndale Community Collection
- O’Quinn Family Papers
- West Side Council of Parents and Teachers Records
- West Side Newspaper Collection
- Faith Rich Papers, 1957-1966, Wisconsin Historical Society Library and Archives, Madison, WI.
- Theodore Rich’s Family:
- Higbee, William Wallace. Around the Mountains: Historical Essays about Charlotte, Ferrisburgh, and Monkton, Charlotte, Vt.: Charlotte Historical Society, c1991. F49.5.H54 1991
Collection Inventory
Series 1: Biographical, 1928-1993
Scope and Contents
Faith Rich’s extensive correspondence provides a holistic view of her communications, relationships and activism. The correspondents include her family; a committed group of friends; her husband, Ted, while he was stationed in Europe during World War II or away on business and a wide range of authors, activists, and government officials. The letter topics range from the mundane business of ordering publications and renewing periodicals or memberships to an active engagement and description of her activism or research on such issues as environmentalism, housing, labor, political theory, race relations, schools and urban development. Researchers should be sure to also review all of her correspondence including from family and holiday newsletters for her insights on these civic action topics.
The correspondence in this series is a combination of letters to Rich as well as carbons of the letters she sent. A handful of mostly family letters addressed to Ted are also included. Beginning in her youth, Rich experienced tremors in her hand that affected her writing and as a result, she typed most of her letters. Rich’s correspondence that is specific to education outside of her committee work with the Chicago Westside Branch NAACP or other named groups has been separated out and added to Series 2: Community Activism and Volunteer Work, Subseries C: Education.
Rich maintained a lifelong friendship with fellow social activist, Tamaara “Tommy or Tommie” Danish Tabb, whom she met in the 1930s when Tabb directed the Educational Division of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, (ILGWU). In addition to their regular correspondence over the years, Rich retained the packets of news clippings that Tabb regularly sent her in the 1980s. Some of the original clippings were photocopied by the BMRC processing project and no longer have their associated envelopes and may not be in their original order. Taken together, the correspondence and news clipping packets between these two women provides a snapshot into the lives of these community organizers.
In the 1940s, Rich regularly exchanged letters on academic and political topics with collegiate associates. The correspondent “R” refers to Robert New, “S” refers to his wife Silva Tipple New Lake and “F” is Faith. Rich’s letter to “R” on March 27, 1943 touches on her difficulties with Bryn Mawr College to officially publish her thesis and earn her PhD.
Rich’s regular family correspondents include her sister, Rhoda Baldwin Mullen; her brothers Lyle and Don Baldwin; her mother; sister-in-law, Ethelinda “Nin” Rich Hanson and her niece, Andrea “Nikki” Baldwin.
The Indecks Information Retrieval System cards that Rich used to manage her contacts were retained in the order found.
Arrangement
Series 1 is arranged alphabetically by topic, type of action or materials type.
| Box 1 | Folder 1 | Award, Chicago Public Schools, certificate, 1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 | Award, City of Chicago, Neighborhood Clean-up and Beautification, circa 1986 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 | Award, Foundation for Freedom and Democracy in Community Life, 1965 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 | Award, Illinois Congress of Parents and Teachers, certificates and pin, 1978, 1989 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 | Award, Illinois PTA, certificate, 1989 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 | Biographical article, obituary, statements and Ted’s notes, 1983, 1990 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 | Central YMCA Community College, Computer Concepts, course materials, |
| Box 7 | Contact cards and Indecks Information Retrieval System card, undated | |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 | Correspondence, 1928, 1932, 1939-1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 | Correspondence, 1941 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 | Correspondence, 1942 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 | Correspondence, 1943 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 | Correspondence, 1944 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 | Correspondence, 1945 January-July |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 | Correspondence, 1945 August |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 | Correspondence, 1945 September-December |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 | Correspondence, 1946 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 | Correspondence, 1947 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 | Correspondence, 1948-1949 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 | Correspondence, 1950 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 | Correspondence, 1951 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 | Correspondence, 1952 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 | Correspondence, 1953 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 | Correspondence, 1954 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 | Correspondence, 1955 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 | Correspondence, 1956 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 | Correspondence, 1957 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 | Correspondence, 1958 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 | Correspondence, 1959 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 | Correspondence, 1960 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 | Correspondence, 1961 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 | Correspondence, 1962 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 | Correspondence, 1963 |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 | Correspondence, 1964 |
| Box 2 | Folder 13 | Correspondence, 1965 |
| Box 2 | Folder 14 | Correspondence, 1966 |
| Box 2 | Folder 15 | Correspondence, 1967 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 | Correspondence, 1968 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 | Correspondence, 1969 January-June |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 | Correspondence, 1969 July-December |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 | Correspondence, 1970 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 | Correspondence, 1971 |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 | Correspondence, 1972 |
| Box 3 | Folder 7 | Correspondence, 1973 |
| Box 3 | Folder 8 | Correspondence, 1974 |
| Box 3 | Folder 9 | Correspondence, 1975 |
| Box 3 | Folder 10 | Correspondence, 1976 |
| Box 3 | Folder 11 | Correspondence, 1977 |
| Box 3 | Folder 12 | Correspondence, 1978 |
| Box 3 | Folder 13 | Correspondence, 1979 |
| Box 3 | Folder 14 | Correspondence, 1980 |
| Box 4 | Folder 1 | Correspondence, 1981 |
| Box 4 | Folder 2 | Correspondence, 1982 |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 | Correspondence, 1983 |
| Box 4 | Folder 4 | Correspondence, 1984 |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 | Correspondence, 1985 |
| Box 4 | Folder 6 | Correspondence, 1986 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 | Correspondence, 1987 |
| Box 4 | Folder 8 | Correspondence, 1988-1990, 1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 9 | Correspondence, undated |
| Box 4 | Folder 10 | Correspondence, farming and socialism, 1938 |
| Box 4 | Folder 11 | Correspondence, farming and socialism with WPA article drafts, 1939 January-March |
| Box 4 | Folder 12 | Correspondence, farming and socialism with WPA article drafts, 1939 May-November |
| Box 4 | Folder 13 | Correspondence, holiday newsletters, 1965, 1970-1978, 1982-1989 |
| Box 4 | Folder 14 | Correspondence, incomplete letters, circa 1945-1970s |
| Box 41 | Folder 1 | “Faith,” Chicago Reader article by George N. Schmidt, 1983 August 5 |
| Box 4 | Folder 15 | Grocery cooperative, ledger, pre-1957 |
| Box 4 | Folder 16 | Membership cards, 1942, 1974, circa 1980-1990 |
| Box 4 | Folder 17 | News clippings, sent by Tamaara Danish Tabb, 1981 |
| Box 5 | Folder 1 | News clippings, sent by Tamaara Danish Tabb, 1982 |
| Box 5 | Folder 2 | News clippings, sent by Tamaara Danish Tabb, 1983 |
| Box 5 | Folder 3 | News clippings, sent by Tamaara Danish Tabb, 1984 |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 | News clippings, sent by Tamaara Danish Tabb, 1985 |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 | News clippings, sent by Tamaara Danish Tabb, 1986 |
| Box 6 | Folder 1 | News clippings, sent by Tamaara Danish Tabb, 1987 |
| Box 6 | Folder 2 | News clippings, sent by Tamaara Danish Tabb, 1988 |
| Box 6 | Folder 3 | News clippings, sent by Tamaara Danish Tabb, 1989 |
| Box 6 | Folder 4 | News clippings, sent by Tamaara Danish Tabb, 1990 |
| Box 6 | Folder 5 | News clippings, thyroid, 1979, 1985, undated |
| Box 6 | Folder 6 | News clippings, Vermont, 1976, 1980, 1986 |
| Box 6 | Folder 7 | Obituaries of friends, 1972, 1976 |
| Box 6 | Folder 8 | Political studies, circa 1938 |
| Box 38 | Photographs 1.1-1.3 | Photographs, Faith Rich, at home, 1967 (3) |
| Box 38 | Photograph 1.4 | Photographs, Faith Rich, at Morton Arboretum, 1967 (1) |
| Box 38 | Photographs 1.5-1.40 | Photographs, Faith Rich, at Morton Arboretum and Ontario, Canada, 1968-1978 (36 slides) |
| Box 38 | Photographs 1.41-1.51 | Photographs, Faith Rich, at Morton Arboretum, circa 1978-1980s (11) |
| Box 38 | Photographs 1.52-1.53 | Photographs, Faith Rich, portraits, 1967, circa 1980s (2) |
| Box 38 | Photographs 1.54 | Photographs, Faith Rich, Slum Busters, circa 1986 |
| Box 38 | Photograph 1.55 | Photographs, Faith and Ted Rich, circa 1960s |
| Box 38 | Photograph 1.56 | Photographs, Mrs. Baldwin [Faith’s mother], circa 1950 |
Series 2: Community Activism and Volunteer Work, 1912-1993
Scope and Contents
Rich was a lifelong community activist, educator and volunteer with numerous organizations including the Chicago Westside Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Independent Voters of Illinois (IVI), the 15th Place Block Club, the Literacy Council of Chicago and local PTAs. She focused her organizing efforts on issues of civil rights, desegregation of schools and neighborhoods, equality in education, racism and the effect of urban renewal on local communities and especially, her own North Lawndale neighborhood in Chicago.
This series contains any materials related to Rich’s work with community groups and local issues. The materials include correspondence, flyers, meeting materials, memos, newsletters, notes, publications, studies, reports and research.
Arrangement
Series 2 is organized into five subseries:
- Subseries A: Chicago Westside Branch NAACP, 1912-1990
- Subseries B: Civil Rights, Community Services and Labor, 1935-1993
- Subseries C: Education, 1915-1990
- Subseries D: Urban Renewal Community Work, 1946-1993
- Subseries E: Urban Renewal Publications, 1939-1990
Researchers are encouraged to review related files across series and subseries and to consult Rich’s personal correspondence in Series 1. Rich worked on similar issues, such as education, with multiple organizations and organizations like the NAACP and CORE were simultaneously active in the same school desegregation and educational equality initiatives. Additionally, a considerable portion of her papers did not have a distinct original order. As such, it was not always clear if correspondence or materials related to education, in particular, were created or gathered independently or if these acts were on behalf of an organization.
Subseries A: Chicago Westside Branch NAACP, 1912-1990
Scope and Contents
Rich’s membership with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) began around 1945 and lasted until her death in 1990. She served the organization in a variety of roles, such as on the Education Committee that she chaired at various times over the years, most notably from 1956-1957 when her landmark study, De Facto Segregation in Chicago Public Schools (Box 8, Folder 14), was released. Other highlights include her contributions to the Textbook Committee who researched and proposed revisions in school textbooks in 1946-1947 to remove bias and better reflect contributions made by African Americans, Catholics, Jews and other groups as well as her work on the NAACP bookmobile, organizing Illinois State Conferences and the housing and labor committees.
The meeting materials include a range of agendas, bulletins, correspondence, flyers, handwritten notes, meeting minutes, research and reports.
Arrangement
Subseries A is organized alphabetically by topic or type of action.
| Box 8 | Folder 1 | Affirmative Action survey of Chicago colleges, 1980-1981 |
| Box 8 | Folder 2 | Afro-American Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), 1978-1980 |
| Box 8 | Folder 3 | Articles by Faith Rich, 1950, 1954 |
| Box 8 | Folder 4 | Black History Read-a-Thon, 1982, 1985 |
| Box 8 | Folder 5 | Bookmobile, 1950-1951 |
| Box 8 | Folder 6 | Brochure, 1951 |
| Box 8 | Folder 7 | Busing Issues, report, 1982 |
| Box 8 | Folder 8 | By-Laws Committee, 1975 |
| Box 8 | Folder 9 | City of Chicago, Budget Hearing testimony, 1954 |
| Box 8 | Folder 10 | City of Chicago, Home Front Unity, conference proceedings, 1945 |
| Box 8 | Folder 11 | The Communist Party—Enemy of Negro Equality, pamphlet, 1951 |
| Box 8 | Folder 12 | Constitution, 1977 |
| Box 8 | Folder 13 | Constitution for Youth Councils, Junior Youth Councils and Young Adult Councils, 1967 |
| Box 8 | Folder 14 | De Facto Segregation in Chicago Public Schools, report by Faith Rich, 1957 |
| Box 8 | Folder 15 | Desegregation class action complaint, circa 1981 |
| Box 8 | Folder 16 | Desegregation Plan, statement by Joyce A. Hughes and news clippings, 1982 |
| Box 8 | Folder 17 | Discrimination complaints, 1969, 1987-1988 |
| Box 8 | Folder 18 | Discrimination complaints, 1989 |
| Box 8 | Folder 19 | Discrimination complaints, 1990 |
| Box 8 | Folder 20 | Education Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1945-1947, 1949 |
| Box 8 | Folder 21 | Education Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1951 |
| Box 8 | Folder 22 | Education Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1952 |
| Box 8 | Folder 23 | Education Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1953 |
| Box 8 | Folder 24 | Education Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1954-1955, 1958 |
| Box 8 | Folder 25 | Education Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1960-1961, 1969 |
| Box 8 | Folder 26 | Education Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1976-1978 |
| Box 8 | Folder 27 | Education Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1979 |
| Box 8 | Folder 28 | Education Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1980-1981 |
| Box 8 | Folder 29 | Education Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1982 |
| Box 9 | Folder 1 | Education Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1983 |
| Box 9 | Folder 2 | Education Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1984 |
| Box 9 | Folder 3 | Education Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1985 |
| Box 9 | Folder 4 | Education Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1986 |
| Box 9 | Folder 5 | Education Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1987 |
| Box 9 | Folder 6 | Education Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1988 |
| Box 9 | Folder 7 | Education Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1989 |
| Box 9 | Folder 8 | Freedom Fund Dinner, program, 1957 |
| Box 9 | Folder 9 | Heritage and Habitude Foundation, tutorial services, 1982 |
| Box 9 | Folder 10 | Hickman, James, 1947 |
| Box 9 | Folder 11 | History, Chicago Branch NAACP History Committee, report, 1955 |
| Box 9 | Folder 12 | History, Chicago Branch NAACP History Committee, copies of historical letters, 1912-1922, 1958 |
| Box 9 | Folder 13 | History, pamphlets, 1975, undated |
| Box 9 | Folder 14 | Housing, Cicero riots, 1951 |
| Box 9 | Folder 15 | Housing, Commission on Human Relations, Trumball Park Homes Disturbances, report 1954 |
| Box 9 | Folder 16 | Housing, correspondence and research, 1946-1949, 1952-1954, 1958-1959, |
| Box 9 | Folder 17 | Housing, correspondence and research, 1960-1961, 1964-1965, 1978, 1980 |
| Box 9 | Folder 18 | Illinois Interracial Commission, The Current Status of Civil Rights in Illinois Communities, report, 1948 |
| Box 9 | Folder 19 | Labor and Industry Committee, correspondence and research, 1946-1947, 1951-1953, 1978-1979, 1985 |
| Box 9 | Folder 20 | Labor and Industry Committee, Job Opportunities in Illinois, report, circa 1953 (2) |
| Box 9 | Folder 21 | Labor and Industry Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1987 |
| Box 10 | Folder 1 | Labor and Industry Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1988 |
| Box 10 | Folder 2 | Labor and Industry Committee, meeting and planning materials, 1989 |
| Box 10 | Folder 3 | Meeting and planning materials, 1945-1946 |
| Box 10 | Folder 4 | Meeting and planning materials, 1947-1948 |
| Box 10 | Folder 5 | Meeting and planning materials, 1949-1950 |
| Box 10 | Folder 6 | Meeting and planning materials, 1951 |
| Box 10 | Folder 7 | Meeting and planning materials, Illinois State Conference, 1951 |
| Box 10 | Folder 8 | Meeting and planning materials, 1952 |
| Box 10 | Folder 9 | Meeting and planning materials, 1953 |
| Box 10 | Folder 10 | Meeting and planning materials, 1958, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1975-1976 |
| Box 10 | Folder 11 | Meeting and planning materials, Illinois State Conference, 1959 |
| Box 10 | Folder 12 | Meeting and planning materials, 1973, 1976 |
| Box 10 | Folder 13 | Meeting and planning materials, 1977 |
| Box 10 | Folder 14 | Meeting and planning materials, 1978 |
| Box 10 | Folder 15 | Meeting and planning materials, 1979 |
| Box 10 | Folder 16 | Meeting and planning materials, 1980 |
| Box 10 | Folder 17 | Meeting and planning materials, 1981 |
| Box 11 | Folder 1 | Meeting and planning materials, 1982 |
| Box 11 | Folder 2 | Meeting and planning materials, 1983 |
| Box 11 | Folder 3 | Meeting and planning materials, 1984 |
| Box 11 | Folder 4 | Meeting and planning materials, 1985 |
| Box 11 | Folder 5 | Meeting and planning materials, 1986 |
| Box 11 | Folder 6 | Meeting and planning materials, 1987 |
| Box 11 | Folder 7 | Meeting and planning materials, 1988 |
| Box 11 | Folder 8 | Meeting and planning materials, Tag Day, 1988 |
| Box 11 | Folder 9 | Meeting and planning materials, 1989-1990 |
| Box 11 | Folder 10 | Membership applications, circa 1985 |
| Box 11 | Folder 11 | Midwest Regional Conference, program, 1950 |
| Box 11 | Folder 12 | NAACP Urges Integrated Chicago School Administrative Districts, report, 1979 |
| Box 11 | Folder 13 | NAACP v. Jane Byrne, Ruth Love, etal., class action lawsuit, circa 1982 |
| Box 11 | Folder 14 | Negro History Week, 1947, 1949, 1951-1952, 1954 |
| Box 11 | Folder 15 | Poetry, Singers in the Dawn, compiled by Robert B. Eleazer, 1946 |
| Box 11 | Folder 16 | Presbytery of Chicago, Pattern of Action for Race Relations, report, 1947 |
| Box 11 | Folder 17 | Prison Program, pamphlet, circa 1970s |
| Box 11 | Folder 18 | Reading, Audio Visual and Library Committee, 1975-1979 |
| Box 11 | Folder 19 | Report, Three Years with the NAACP Education Committee, 1949 |
| Box 11 | Folder 20 | Report with questionnaire, 1954 |
| Box 11 | Folder 21 | Testimony, Illinois School Problems Commission, 1979 |
| Box 11 | Folder 22 | Testimony, Illinois State Board of Education, 1979 |
| Box 11 | Folder 23 | Textbook Committee, 1946-1948 |
| Box 11 | Folder 24 | Textbook Committee, analysis of The Story of Our Nation, 1947 |
| Box 11 | Folder 25 | Textbook Committee, Intergroup Relations in Teaching Materials, statement, 1947 |
| Box 11 | Folder 26 | Textbook Committee, questionnaires about relations with minority groups, 1946 |
| Box 11 | Folder 27 | United States Commission on Civil Rights, Cairo, Illinois: Racism at Floodtide, 1973 |
| Box 11 | Folder 28 | Urban development address by George B. Nesbitt given at the Illinois State Conference of the NAACP, 1950 |
| Box 11 | Folder 29 | Youth and College Chapters, 1978-1979 |
Series 2: Community Activism and Volunteer Work, 1915-1990
Subseries B: Civil Rights, Community Services and Labor, 1935-1993
Scope and Contents
Subseries B brings together Rich’s files of her work with several community groups that worked on civil rights and labor actions such as the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Independent Voters of Illinois (IVI) and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, (ILGWU). Early in her career, Rich realized that Chicago’s political wards played a role in where and how social issues, particularly related to de facto segregation were or could be addressed in Chicago. In 1948, Rich and her husband, Ted, compiled a Political Directory of Chicago and Illinois. A copy of this publication is included in Subseries B.
Most of Rich’s CORE files were deposited at the Wisconsin Historical Society Library and Archives, Madison, Wisconsin in 1971 by Professor August Meier. The CORE files found in this collection of papers primarily concern a portion of her work with the Schools Committee in the early 1960s. Specifically, there is some documentation of Operation IN (Integration Now), a CORE statement at a schools budget meeting and opposition to Superintendent Benjamin Willis, along with a few letters expressing opposition to her efforts.
Subseries B also contains files on her work with the people with disabilities, libraries, parks, peace groups and political organizations.
Arrangement
Subseries B is arranged alphabetically by topic, type of action or materials type.
| Box 12 | Folder 1 | Abortion rights, 1987 |
| Box 12 | Folder 2 | Ad Hoc Committee for Honest Elections, 1978 |
| Box 12 | Folder 3 | American Friendship Club, newsletters, 1964 February-March |
| Box 12 | Folder 4 | Anti-Semitism, correspondence, articles and conference, 1948, 1950, 1986 |
| Box 12 | Folder 5 | Bloom, Lawrence S. election materials, circa 1989 |
| Box 41 | Folder 5 | But It Isn’t So: Fallacies of Race and Religion, broadsheet, 1944 |
| Box 12 | Folder 6 | Chicago Branch Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, 1989, undated |
| Box 12 | Folder 7 | Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, 1946 |
| Box 41 | Folder 6 | Chicago Heights, map, 1939 |
| Box 12 | Folder 8 | Chicago Memorial Association, 1971, 1987-1988, undated |
| Box 12 | Folder 9 | Chicago Workers’ School, Who Owns Chicago? report, 1950 |
| Box 12 | Folder 10 | Chicago Urban League, 1951 |
| Box 12 | Folder 11 | Christian Action Ministry (CAM), brochure and pamphlets, 1978 |
| Box 12 | Folder 12 | Citizens Utility Board (CUB), 1986, undated |
| Box 12 | Folder 13 | Civil Alternatives to Criminal Law Statutes, by Hon. Maureen P. Reilly and Louis Ito, report, circa 1977 |
| Box 12 | Folder 14 | Coalition for Justice of Rudy Lozano, flyer, 1985s |
| Box 12 | Folder 15 | Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 1961, 1964, 1966 |
| Box 12 | Folder 16 | Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Schools Committee, 1960-1962 |
| Box 12 | Folder 17 | Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Schools Committee, 1963 |
| Box 12 | Folder 18 | Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Schools Committee, 1964-1965 |
| Box 12 | Folder 19 | Cooperative League of the U.S.A., Monopolies Must Go! pamphlet by Judge Thurman Arnold, 1944 |
| Box 12 | Folder 20 | Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO), 1964 |
| Box 12 | Folder 21 | Davis, Danny K, election materials, 1986 |
| Box 12 | Folder 22 | Disabled American Rally for Equality (DARE), meeting and planning materials, 1985-1990 |
| Box 12 | Folder 23 | Douglas Park Advisory Committee, 1986-1987 |
| Box 12 | Folder 24 | Fair Jury Project, memo, circa 1974 |
| Box 12 | Folder 25 | Food First, 1988-1989 |
| Box 12 | Folder 26 | Illinois Committee for Equal Job Opportunities, report, 1960 |
| Box 12 | Folder 27 | Illinois Women’s Abortion Coalition, protest flyer, 1972 |
| Box 12 | Folder 28 | Independent Voters of Illinois (IVI), 1945-1946 |
| Box 12 | Folder 29 | Independent Voters of Illinois (IVI), 1947 |
| Box 12 | Folder 30 | Independent Voters of Illinois (IVI), 1948 |
| Box 12 | Folder 31 | Independent Voters of Illinois (IVI), 1951-1952, 1959 |
| Box 12 | Folder 32 | Independent Voters of Illinois (IVI), 1964-1966 |
| Box 41 | Folder 2 | Independent Voters of Illinois (IVI), Legislative and Congressional districts, maps, circa 1975 |
| Box 12 | Folder 33 | Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization (IVI-IPO), 1981-1982, 1984, 1986-1990 |
| Box 13 | Folder 1 | International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU), correspondence, 1939 1943, 1945-[1946] |
| Box 13 | Folder 2 | International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, (ILGWU), Education Department, Let’s Sing, songbook, 1935 |
| Box 13 | Folder 3 | International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU), English language educational materials and notes, 1943-1944 |
| Box 13 | Folder 4 | Kefauverism: A Protest, pamphlet by William Scott Stewart, circa 1951 [Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce.] |
| Box 13 | Folder 5 | Labor issues, correspondence, 1939, 1945-1947, 1952, undated |
| Box 13 | Folder 6 | Library, correspondence, 1968, 1970, 1984 |
| Box 13 | Folder 7 | Library, Friends of the Douglas Branch Library, 1983-1985, 1988-1989 |
| Box 13 | Folder 8 | Library, Friends of the Legler Regional Library, 1978, 1980, 1985-1987 |
| Box 13 | Folder 9 | Mayor’s Office of Inquiry and Information, brochures, circa 1983-1987 |
| Box 13 | Folder 10 | Medical Committee for Human Rights, 1965 |
| Box 13 | Folder 11 | Monthly Review Discussion Group, 1989 |
| Box 13 | Folder 12 | National Peace Institute Foundation, meeting and planning materials, 1985-1987 |
| Box 13 | Folder 13 | National Peace Institute Foundation, newsletters, 1985-1988 [incomplete] |
| Box 13 | Folder 14 | National Peace Institute Foundation, United States Institute of Peace Act, 1984 |
| Box 13 | Folder 15 | New World Resource Center, newsletter and community flyers, 1993 |
| Box 13 | Folder 16 | News clippings, civil rights, 1979, 1984 |
| Box 13 | Folder 17 | News clippings, labor, 1979, 1985 |
| Box 13 | Folder 18 | One of Chicago [LGBT rights], by-laws and goals, 1967-1968 |
| Box 13 | Folder 19 | Parks, correspondence, 1968, 1975 |
| Box 13 | Folder 20 | Political Directory of Chicago and Illinois, 1948 |
| Box 13 | Folder 21 | Progressive Party, 1948-1949, 1951 |
| Box 13 | Folder 22 | Student Committee on Discrimination and Academic Freedom, letter, undated |
| Box 13 | Folder 23 | United Nations, Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, 1968 |
| Box 13 | Folder 24 | United Nations Association of the United States of America, Illinois and Greater Chicago Division, planning materials, 1971-1972, 1974, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1984 |
| Box 13 | Folder 25 | War Department, “Prejudice! Roadblock to Progress,” Army Talk, 1945 |
| Box 13 | Folder 26 | The Way to Leave a Race Baiter Speechless, pamphlet, circa 1944 |
| Box 13 | Folder 27 | Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Coretta Scott King luncheon invitation, 1965 |
Series 2: Community Activism and Volunteer Work, 1915-1990
Subseries C: Education, 1915-1990
Scope and Contents
Rich was a lifelong advocate of equal access to quality education and schools. This subseries brings together all of the educational organizations outside of the NAACP and CORE that Rich worked with over the years. These meeting materials and reports document her service with George W. Collins High School’s Local School Council, as a board member of the Literacy Council of Chicago and as a volunteer for Educable Mentally Handicapped (EMH) Coalition and the Citizens Schools Committee. The Education subseries also includes her research on efforts to improve student reading capabilities through the use of phonics and other teaching innovations, along with publications that document Parent-Teacher Associations (PTA) procedures.
Researchers should also consult Subseries A for Rich’s NAACP Education Committee work and Subseries B for her CORE Schools Committee integration work and Independent Voters of Illinois (IVI) for school district studies.
Arrangement
Subseries C is arranged alphabetically by topic, type of action or materials type.
| Box 14 | Folder 1 | American Council on Race Relations, Analysis of Chicago School Strikes, 1945 |
| Box 14 | Folder 2 | Armstrong Act, 1957-1962 |
| Box 14 | Folder 3 | Auditory Discrimination in Depth (ADD), 1987 |
| Box 14 | Folder 4 | Board of Education, school boards, circa 1982 |
| Box 14 | Folder 5 | Board of Education, School Days are Happy Days, [kindergarten], circa 1955 |
| Box 14 | Folder 6 | Board of Education, Start-up Kit for Local School Councils, 1989 |
| Box 14 | Folder 7 | Board of Education, union contracts, 1989 |
| Box 14 | Folder 8 | Chicago Friends of the SNCC, Freedom Day II - School Boycott, 1964 |
| Box 14 | Folder 9 | Chicago Panel on Public School Finances, correspondence and assessments, 1986 |
| Box 14 | Folder 10 | Chicago Public Schools, Uniform Discipline Code, 1982 |
| Box 14 | Folder 11 | Chicago Tribune, Chicago’s School Integration Crisis, editorial compilation, 1979 |
| Box 14 | Folder 12 | Chicago Urban League, “Grade Reorganization and Consolidation of Facilities,” position paper, 1977 |
| Box 14 | Folder 13 | Citizens Schools Committee, Better Schools for All Chicago, 1982 |
| Box 14 | Folder 14 | Citizens Schools Committee, correspondence. 1945-1946, 1967 |
| Box 14 | Folder 15 | Citizens Schools Committee, correspondence and reports, 1987, 1989-1990 |
| Box 14 | Folder 16 | City Colleges of Chicago, Adults Learning Skills for Progress, circa 1970s |
| Box 14 | Folder 17 | City Colleges of Chicago, literacy program, circa 1986 |
| Box 14 | Folder 18 | City of Chicago, Budget Hearing testimony by gang members, 1961 |
| Box 14 | Folder 19 | Correspondence, education, 1959-1965 |
| Box 14 | Folder 20 | Correspondence, education, 1966-1969 |
| Box 14 | Folder 21 | Correspondence, education, 1970-1973, 1979 |
| Box 14 | Folder 22 | Correspondence, education, 1981, 1986-1987 |
| Box 14 | Folder 23 | Data-Driven Educational Leadership, article, 1986 |
| Box 14 | Folder 24 | Designs for Change, The Bottom Line: Chicago’s Failing Schools and How to Save Them, report with fact sheets, 1983-1985 |
| Box 14 | Folder 25 | Designs for Change, Caught in the Web: Misplaced Children in Chicago’s Classes for the Mentally Retarded, report and report summary, 1982 |
| Box 14 | Folder 26 | Designs for Change, Chicago Reading Campaign, pamphlet, circa 1982 (2) |
| Box 15 | Folder 1 | Designs for Change, correspondence and program materials, 1981-1982 |
| Box 15 | Folder 2 | Designs for Change, Learning to Read, draft report, 1983 |
| Box 15 | Folder 3 | Do the Medical Schools in Illinois Discriminate Against Jewish Applicants? paper by Gilbert Gordon, 1948 |
| Box 15 | Folder 4 | Educable Mentally Handicapped (EMH) Coalition, Community School District #60, plan, 1980, 1983 |
| Box 15 | Folder 5 | Educable Mentally Handicapped (EMH) Coalition, correspondence, 1983 |
| Box 15 | Folder 6 | Financial aid resources, circa 1985 |
| Box 15 | Folder 7 | George W. Collins High School, improvement plan, 1989 |
| Box 15 | Folder 8 | George W. Collins High School, PTA meetings, 1989 |
| Box 15 | Folder 9 | George W. Collins High School, PTA meetings, 1990 |
| Box 15 | Folder 10 | Harrison High School, PTA, 1980, 1983, 1986 |
| Box 38 | Photograph 1.57 | Howland School, Chicago, class picture, 1975 |
| Box 15 | Folder 11 | Illinois Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, The ABCs of Special Education, handbook, 1982 |
| Box 15 | Folder 12 | Illinois General Assembly, Chicago School Reform, Public Act 85-1418, 1989 |
| Box 15 | Folder 13 | Literary Council of Chicago, 1982 |
| Box 15 | Folder 14 | Literary Council of Chicago, 1983 |
| Box 15 | Folder 15 | Literary Council of Chicago, 1984 |
| Box 15 | Folder 16 | Literary Council of Chicago, 1985 |
| Box 15 | Folder 17 | Literary Council of Chicago, proposed constitution, circa 1985 |
| Box 15 | Folder 18 | Literary Council of Chicago, 1987 |
| Box 16 | Folder 1 | Measuring Scale for Ability in Spelling, 1915 |
| Box 16 | Folder 2 | Meeting guidelines, pamphlets, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, undated |
| Box 16 | Folder 3 | National Congress of Parents and Teachers, Schools of Information, pamphlet, 1967 |
| Box 16 | Folder 4 | National Council of Teachers of English, On the Dialects of Children, pamphlet, 1968 |
| Box 41 | Folder 3 | Network for Youth Services, Teen Leadership & Health Conference, poster, 1988 |
| Box 16 | Folder 5 | News clippings, 1974-1975, 1983-1989 |
| Box 16 | Folder 6 | Our Own American History, class proposal, Kosciusko High School, circa 1953 |
| Box 16 | Folder 7 | PTA brochures and pamphlets, 1978, undated |
| Box 16 | Folder 8 | PTA, Chicago, 1980, 1983-1988, undated |
| Box 16 | Folder 9 | PTA directory, Chicago, 1989-1990 |
| Box 16 | Folder 10 | PTA handbook, 1967 |
| Box 16 | Folder 11 | PTA handbooks, 1968-1969 |
| Box 16 | Folder 12 | PTA handbooks, circa 1975 |
| Box 16 | Folder 13 | PTA handbooks, Spanish, circa 1975 |
| Box 16 | Folder 14 | PTA handbooks, 1976 |
| Box 16 | Folder 15 | PTA handbook, officer duties, undated |
| Box 16 | Folder 16 | PTA, Illinois, 1968, 1971, 1973-1975, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1988, undated |
| Box 16 | Folder 17 | PTA, Illinois suggested by-laws for local units, 1989 |
| Box 16 | Folder 18 | PTA national by-laws, 1975 |
| Box 16 | Folder 19 | PTA, PTA Today, journals, 1980 October, 1989 March |
| Box 16 | Folder 20 | Reading instruction, Board of Education, Implementation Handbook for the Comprehensive Reading Program, 1985 |
| Box 16 | Folder 21 | Reading instruction, The Content of Phonics and Syllabication Instruction, 1975 |
| Box 16 | Folder 22 | Reading instruction, correspondence and research, 1961, 1967-1970, 1983-1987 |
| Box 17 | Folder 1 | Reading instruction, Direct Instruction programs, 1979, 1983-1985, 1987 |
| Box 17 | Folder 2 | Reading instruction, Hegeler Project, studies, 1966, 1968 |
| Box 17 | Folder 3 | Reading instruction, Intensive Phonics, 1978-1983 |
| Box 17 | Folder 4 | Reading instruction, Open Court, programs and reports, 1978, 1981, 1983-1986 |
| Box 17 | Folder 5 | Reading instruction, phonics correspondence with Geraldine Rodgers, 1984-1986 |
| Box 17 | Folder 6 | Reading instruction, The Reading Informer, articles and newsletters, 1984-1986 |
| Box 17 | Folder 7 | Reading instruction, research articles, 1965, 1971, 1984-1985, 1988 |
| Box 17 | Folder 8 | Religious education in public schools, article and Supreme Court case, 1948 |
| Box 17 | Folder 9 | The Role of the Local School Council in the Development of the Local School Improvement Plan, paper, circa 1989 |
| Box 17 | Folder 10 | START Council, 1987-1988 |
| Box 17 | Folder 11 | Teachers for Integrated Schools, Hearts and Minds, pamphlet, 1962 (2) |
| Box 17 | Folder 12 | United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Selected References on School Finance, 1956 |
| Box 17 | Folder 13 | United States v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago, amicus curiae brief, 1981 |
| Box 17 | Folder 14 | Ward list, catholic schools, 1946 |
| Box 17 | Folder 15 | Ward list, Chicago Public Schools, 1946 |
| Box 17 | Folder 16 | Why Many African-Americans are Poor Students, essay by J.B. Washington, undated |
| Box 17 | Folder 17 | You Can’t Throw the Rain Back Up, study of Champlain Valley Union High School in Vermont, circa 1972 |
Series 2: Community Activism and Volunteer Work, 1915-1990
Subseries D: Urban Renewal Community Work, 1946-1993
Scope and Contents
Faith Rich’s activism included her West Side Chicago neighborhood of North Lawndale where she resided for 37 years, first at 1500 S. Karlov Avenue from 1953-1959 and later at 1516 S. Albany Avenue from 1959 until her death in 1990. During these years, North Lawndale went from being a neighborhood with a high concentration of Russian Jews to a predominantly African American community whose members found few employment opportunities with neighborhood industries. As a consequence, North Lawndale’s new population struggled with poverty, overcrowding and a lack of new housing. These circumstances created tension with the white workers who commuted from other parts of the city or suburbs to work at neighborhood businesses and industries. The racial discrimination behind these circumstances was among the reasons Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. chose North Lawndale as a base for his northern civil rights campaign, also known as the Chicago Freedom Movement. North Lawndale changed little as a result of Dr. King’s stay and most businesses closed or relocated after the riots that followed his assassination in 1968. The community-based organizations he inspired, such as the Lawndale Peoples’ Planning & Action Conference and the Pyramidwest Development Corporation, failed in their revitalizing mission. Conference materials and a report from these groups, respectively, were among Rich’s files. Subseries E contains Chicago’s Department of Urban Renewal plans for the Douglas Park and Lawndale communities along with other reports and studies of the area.
As a white activist in her North Lawndale community on Chicago’s West Side, Rich spent decades advocating for equitable and desegregated neighborhood services that included schools, housing, economic development opportunities and city services such as libraries and parks. As with other initiatives by Rich, she worked both with local organizations, such as the 15th Place Block Club (part of the Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission, GLCC) and independently as a researcher and advocate. The bulk of this subseries documents block club activities such as baseball leagues, community gardens, forums for neighborhood complaints, reading programs, support for local school programs and vacant lot clean-up. Lists of land parcels, ward maps, correspondence and studies provide additional insight into Rich’s research interests.
Researchers should also consult the Rich’s research library of urban renewal publications in Subseries E and the NAACP files in Subseries A for meeting materials and other files on housing and labor, including the report from circa 1953 on job opportunities.
Arrangement
Subseries D is arranged alphabetically by topic, type of action or materials type.
| Box 18 | Folder 1 | 15th Place Block Club, meeting and planning materials, 1968-1969 |
| Box 18 | Folder 2 | 15th Place Block Club, meeting and planning materials, 1970-1973, 1975 |
| Box 18 | Folder 3 | 15th Place Block Club, meeting and planning materials, 1976-1977 |
| Box 18 | Folder 4 | 15th Place Block Club, meeting and planning materials, 1979-1983, 1985 |
| Box 18 | Folder 5 | 15th Place Block Club, meeting and planning materials, 1986 |
| Box 18 | Folder 6 | 15th Place Block Club, meeting and planning materials, 1987 |
| Box 18 | Folder 7 | 15th Place Block Club, urban gardening, 1985-1989 |
| Box 18 | Folder 8 | 24th Ward, precinct registers and map, 1968, 1986 |
| Box 18 | Folder 9 | Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), Cabrini Green, flower festival program, 9 neighborhood photographs, newsletter, 1950 August |
| Box 18 | Folder 10 | Correspondence, Lawndale and Garfield Park neighborhoods, 1959-1961, 1965-1966, 1968, 1971, 1976, 1982-1985 |
| Box 18 | Folder 11 | Gardens and environmental renewal, 1977-1978, 1985 |
| Box 18 | Folder 12 | Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission (GRCC), 1956, 1960-1961 |
| Box 18 | Folder 13 | Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission (GRCC), 1965, 1970 |
| Box 18 | Folder 14 | Lawndale Cooperative Association, annual meeting program, 1968 |
| Box 18 | Folder 15 | Lawndale, list of parcels, 1985 |
| Box 18 | Folder 16 | Lawndale Peoples’ Planning and Action Conference, by laws, circa 1969 |
| Box 18 | Folder 17 | Near North Side Planning Committee, 1946 |
| Box 18 | Folder 18 | Near Westside Community Forum, 1983 |
| Box 18 | Folder 19 | News clippings, 1961-1965 |
| Box 18 | Folder 20 | News clippings, 1976-1978, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989 |
| Box 18 | Folder 21 | Pyramidwest Development Corporation, annual report, 1987 |
| Box 18 | Folder 22 | Slum Busters, 1986, 1993 |
| Box 18 | Folder 23 | Urban renewal notes, 1968 |
Series 2: Community Activism and Volunteer Work, 1915-1990
Subseries E: Urban Renewal Publications, 1939-1990
Scope and Contents
Faith Rich kept an extensive library of publications, studies, reports and articles related to urban development plans in Chicago along with a small number of studies on comparative cities. The bulk of these publications was created by a handful of City or civic organizations, although private studies or corporate entities often authored and participated in neighborhood plans or attempted to influence the direction of renewal projects. Some of these publications are accompanied by maps or photographs. A number of the planning organizations and City departments included in Rich’s library changed names and/or evolved into new divisions over the years.
The Chicago Plan Commission was established in 1909 to promote and implement the Plan of Chicago, also referred to as the Burnham Plan. In 1939, the Commission was reorganized as a part of City government. The Commission continues to be staffed by the City of Chicago’s Department of Zoning and Land Use Planning and reviews proposals of land acquisitions, sales and developments.
Chicago’s Department of Urban Renewal (DUR) was created through the combination of the Chicago Land Clearance Commission and the Community Conservation Board in 1962. This merger was the result of the State of Illinois Urban Renewal Consolidation Act of 1961, which required municipalities to create departments of urban renewal to manage projects and funding related to land clearance and redevelopment.
The topics covered in Rich’s library include demographics, environmental conditions, historic preservation, housing, land clearance, neighborhood redevelopment, relocation for businesses and residents, transportation planning and zoning. Some of these publications use the terms “blight” and “slum clearance.” Urban renewal plans for numerous Chicago neighborhoods are represented.
Arrangement
Subseries E is arranged alphabetically by the publishing organization or by title in the case of individually-authored papers.
| Box 19 | Folder 1 | American Institute of Architects, Chicago Chapter Gala program, 1969 |
| Box 19 | Folder 2 | American Institute of Architects, Georgia Chapter, Visual Survey and Design Plan, circa 1959 |
| Box 19 | Folder 3 | American Institute of Planners, New Communities, 1968 |
| Box 19 | Folder 4 | American Public Health Association Committee on the Hygiene of Housing, Planning the Neighborhood, 1948 |
| Box 19 | Folder 5 | American Society of Planning Officials, Land Planning and Development Values in Postwar Britain, 1967 |
| Box 19 | Folder 6 | Architectural Forum, Planning With You, 1943 |
| Box 19 | Folder 7 | Article reprints, 1956-1967, undated |
| Box 19 | Folder 8 | Atlanta-Fulton County Joint Planning Board, Comprehensive Plan: City of Atlanta, 1958 |
| Box 19 | Folder 9 | Battle for Chicago, article by Daniel Seligman, 1954 |
| Box 19 | Folder 10 | Building Construction Employers’ Association, newsletter, 1976 June |
| Box 19 | Folder 11 | Bulldozers and Bureaucrats: Cities and Urban Renewal by Wolf Van Eckardt, 1963 |
| Box 19 | Folder 12 | Carl Sandburg Village: The Study of an Urban Renewal Project, article by Stanley L. Goodfriend, 1963 |
| Box 19 | Folder 13 | Center for Neighborhood Technology, brochure, 1985 |
| Box 19 | Folder 14 | Chase Manhattan Bank, The Responsibility of the Businessman in Urban Renewal, 1960 |
| Box 19 | Folder 15 | Chase Manhattan Bank, Urban Renewal: The Problem of the Central City, 1961 |
| Box 19 | Folder 16 | Chicago Area Transportation Study, Volume 3, 1962 |
| Box 19 | Folder 17 | Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry, Industrial Districts in Metropolitan Chicago, circa 1960 |
| Box 19 | Folder 18 | Chicago Central Area Committee, Chicago River Promenade, 1979 |
| Box 19 | Folder 19 | Chicago Land Clearance Commission, annual report, 1953 |
| Box 19 | Folder 20 | Chicago Land Clearance Commission, enumerator’s handbook for structure and population study, 1957-1963 |
| Box 19 | Folder 21 | Chicago Land Clearance Commission, Michael Reese-Prairie Shores Redevelopment Project, 1962 |
| Box 20 | Folder 1 | Chicago Land Clearance Commission, Organization and Program of the Chicago Land Clearance Commission, circa 1960 |
| Box 20 | Folder 2 | Chicago Land Clearance Commission, Study for the Land Use Plan: South Central Area, 1962 |
| Box 20 | Folder 3 | Chicago Land Clearance Commission, Surgery for a City [Lake Meadows project], 1954 |
| Box 20 | Folder 4 | Chicago Land Clearance Commission, West Side Study Areas, 1950 |
| Box 20 | Folder 5 | Chicago Model Cities Program, Adding It All Together, brochure, circa 1969 |
| Box 20 | Folder 6 | Chicago Model Cities Program, Forging Ahead: A Synopsis of Chicago Model Cities First Year Accomplishments, circa 1970 |
| Box 20 | Folder 7 | Chicago Model Cities Program, Impact, newsletter, circa 1977 |
| Box 20 | Folder 8 | Chicago Model Cities Program, Year One, circa 1970 |
| Box 20 | Folder 9 | Chicago Plan Commission, Billboard Regulation, 1952 |
| Box 20 | Folder 10 | Chicago Plan Commission, Budgeting for Capital Improvements, 1952 |
| Box 20 | Folder 11 | Chicago Plan Commission, Chicago Industrial Study: Summary Report, 1952 |
| Box 20 | Folder 12 | Chicago Plan Commission, Industrial Planning and Zoning, 1952 |
| Box 20 | Folder 13 | Chicago Plan Commission, Introducing the Central South Area Plan, 1960 |
| Box 20 | Folder 14 | Chicago Plan Commission, Occupied Dwelling Units in Chicago, 1953 |
| Box 20 | Folder 15 | Chicago Plan Commission, The Perimeter Plan for Rehabilitation of Major Shopping Centers, 1953 |
| Box 20 | Folder 16 | Chicago Plan Commission, Part 1, A Plan for the South Central Area of Chicago, 1950 |
| Box 20 | Folder 17 | Chicago Plan Commission, Part 2, A Plan for the West Central Area of Chicago, 1951 |
| Box 20 | Folder 18 | Chicago Plan Commission, Part 3, A Plan for the North Central Area of Chicago, 1951 |
| Box 21 | Folder 1 | Chicago Plan Commission, Part 4, A Plan for the Northwest Central Area of Chicago, 1951 |
| Box 21 | Folder 2 | Chicago Plan Commission, Part 5, A Plan for the Central Area of Chicago, Technical Index, 1952 |
| Box 21 | Folder 3 | Chicago Plan Commission, Principles for Planning a Comprehensive Program of Redevelopment, 1952 |
| Box 21 | Folder 4 | Chicago Plan Commission, Recommended Policies for Redevelopment in Chicago, 1954 |
| Box 21 | Folder 5 | Chicago Plan Commission, Recreation, 1953 |
| Box 21 | Folder 6 | Chicago Plan Commission, Redevelopment for Industry, 1951 |
| Box 21 | Folder 7 | Chicago Plan Commission, Report of Activities, 1955 |
| Box 21 | Folder 8 | Chicago Plan Commission, South Side Consolidated Railroad Passenger Terminal, 1953 |
| Box 21 | Folder 9 | Chicago Plan Commission, State Street Promenade, 1953 |
| Box 21 | Folder 10 | Chicago Plan Commission, A Study of Blighted Vacant Land, 1950 |
| Box 21 | Folder 11 | Chicago School of Architecture Foundation, Prairie Avenue Historic District, 1975 |
| Box 21 | Folder 12 | Chicago Sun-Times, Commercial Real Estate Report, 1990 |
| Box 21 | Folder 13 | Chicago Title and Trust Company, The City: Some of Its Problems and Its Progress Discussed in Five Articles, circa 1963 |
| Box 21 | Folder 14 | Chicago’s Land Clearance Paradox, article by Thomas Buck, 1964 |
| Box 21 | Folder 15 | City Club of Chicago, Principles, Priorities and Planning for the Solution of Chicago Transportation Problems, 1966 |
| Box 21 | Folder 16 | City Council Committee on Buildings and Zoning, A Report on the Proposed Comprehensive Amendment to the Chicago Zoning Ordinance, 1955 |
| Box 21 | Folder 17 | City Council Committee on Buildings and Zoning, Zoning and How It Affects You, 1956 |
| Box 21 | Folder 18 | City of Chicago, airport fact books, 1976 |
| Box 21 | Folder 19 | City of Chicago, The Burnham Corridor, 1977 |
| Box 21 | Folder 20 | City of Chicago, Chicago’s Southwest Economic Development Corridor, circa 1977-1979 |
| Box 21 | Folder 21 | City of Chicago, TheCrosstown: Lifeline for the Middle City, circa 1977 |
| Box 21 | Folder 22 | City of Chicago, Crosstown Expressway: Roadway of the Future, circa 1977 |
| Box 22 | Folder 1 | City of Chicago, North Loop Guidelines for Conservation and Redevelopment, 1981 |
| Box 22 | Folder 2 | City of Chicago, Transit Planning Study, Chicago Central Area, Volume 1 Summary, circa 1968 |
| Box 22 | Folder 3 | City of Chicago, Budgetary Division, Chicago’s Property Tax Dollar, [1972] |
| Box 22 | Folder 4 | City of Chicago, Special Panel, Report of the Investigation of the Wincrest Nursing Home Fire on January 30, 1976, 1976 |
| Box 22 | Folder 5 | Commerce: Chicagoland Voice of Business and Industry, 1979 July |
| Box 22 | Folder 6 | Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, annual report, 1969 |
| Box 22 | Folder 7 | Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, Alta Vista Terrace Landmark District, circa 1971 |
| Box 22 | Folder 8 | Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company Building, 1 S. State Street, 1970 |
| Box 22 | Folder 9 | Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, convention welcome, 1969 |
| Box 22 | Folder 10 | Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, Fort Dearborn, 1971 |
| Box 22 | Folder 11 | Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, George Washington-Robert Morris-Haym Salomon Memorial, 1971 |
| Box 22 | Folder 12 | Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, informational booklets, 1968-1969 |
| Box 22 | Folder 13 | Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, Leiter Building, 208 W. Monroe Street, 1970 |
| Box 22 | Folder 14 | Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, McClurg Building, 218 S. Wabash Avenue, 1971 |
| Box 22 | Folder 15 | Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, Monadnock Building, 53 W. Jackson Boulevard, 1970 |
| Box 22 | Folder 16 | Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, Municipal Code excerpts, circa 1968 |
| Box 22 | Folder 17 | Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, Old Chicago Water Tower District, 1971 |
| Box 22 | Folder 18 | Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, Reliance Building, 32 N. State Street, 1971 |
| Box 22 | Folder 19 | Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, Rookery Building, 209 S. LaSalle Street, 1972 |
| Box 22 | Folder 20 | Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, Rules of Procedure, 1969 |
| Box 22 | Folder 21 | Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, Site of the First Self-Sustaining Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction, 1971 |
| Box 22 | Folder 22 | Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, Union Stock Yard Gate, 1971 |
| Box 22 | Folder 23 | Community Conservation Board of Chicago, annual reports, 1956-1958 |
| Box 22 | Folder 24 | Community Conservation Board of Chicago, Hyde Park Kenwood: Urban Renewal Project, 1961 |
| Box 22 | Folder 25 | Community Conservation Board of Chicago, report, 1961 |
| Box 22 | Folder 26 | Community Renewal Program, Aspects of Environmental Design, 1963 |
| Box 23 | Folder 1 | Department of Buildings, Landlord and Tenant Responsibilities and Obligations, circa 1976 |
| Box 23 | Folder 2 | Department of City Planning, Development Plan for the Central Area of Chicago, 1958, 1959 |
| Box 23 | Folder 3 | Department of City Planning, Property Owned or Leased by the City of Chicago, 1958 |
| Box 23 | Folder 4 | Department of City Planning, Vacant Land in the City of Chicago, 1958, 1959 |
| Box 23 | Folder 5 | Department of Development and Planning, 2nd Ward: Population and Housing Characteristics, 1970 |
| Box 23 | Folder 6 | Department of Development and Planning, Chicago Central Communities Study, 1971 |
| Box 23 | Folder 7 | Department of Development and Planning, Chicago Inland Regional Parks: Design Study Report, 1968 |
| Box 23 | Folder 8 | Department of Development and Planning, Chicago Transit Station Area Development, 1977 |
| Box 23 | Folder 9 | Department of Development and Planning, Chicago Zoning Guide, circa 1966 |
| Box 23 | Folder 10 | Department of Development and Planning, Chicago’s Black Population: Selected Statistics, 1975 |
| Box 23 | Folder 11 | Department of Development and Planning, Chicago’s Five Year Beautification Plan, 1971-1976, 1970 |
| Box 23 | Folder 12 | Department of Development and Planning, Chicago’s Spanish-Speaking Population: Selected Statistics, 1973 |
| Box 23 | Folder 13 | Department of Development and Planning, The Comprehensive Plan of Chicago, memo, 1966 |
| Box 23 | Folder 14 | Department of Development and Planning, Marquette Park: Study Area Report, 1977 |
| Box 23 | Folder 15 | Department of Public Works, annual reports, 1970-1971 |
| Box 23 | Folder 16 | Department of Public Works, Chicago Beautification: Expressway Parks, circa 1966 |
| Box 23 | Folder 17 | Department of Public Works, Chicago O’Hare International Airport, 1964 |
| Box 23 | Folder 18 | Department of Public Works, Progress, newsletters, 1971-1972 |
| Box 24 | Folder 1 | Department of Urban Renewal, 12 Points for Selecting Home Improvement Contractors, 1962 |
| Box 24 | Folder 2 | Department of Urban Renewal, 45th-Ashland Redevelopment Plan, 1970 |
| Box 24 | Folder 3 | Department of Urban Renewal, 63rd-Dorchester Redevelopment Plan, 1967 |
| Box 24 | Folder 4 | Department of Urban Renewal, 67th-Stony Island Redevelopment Plan, 1969 |
| Box 24 | Folder 5 | Department of Urban Renewal, 69th-South Chicago Redevelopment Plan, 1969 |
| Box 24 | Folder 6 | Department of Urban Renewal, 73rd-Dobson Redevelopment Plan, 1967 |
| Box 24 | Folder 7 | Department of Urban Renewal, annual report, 1962 |
| Box 24 | Folder 8 | Department of Urban Renewal, annual report, 1963 |
| Box 24 | Folder 9 | Department of Urban Renewal, annual report, 1964 |
| Box 24 | Folder 10 | Department of Urban Renewal, annual report, 1965 |
| Box 41 | Folder 4 | Department of Urban Renewal, annual report, 1966 |
| Box 24 | Folder 11 | Department of Urban Renewal, annual report, 1967 |
| Box 24 | Folder 12 | Department of Urban Renewal, annual report, 1968 |
| Box 24 | Folder 13 | Department of Urban Renewal, annual report, 1969 |
| Box 24 | Folder 14 | Department of Urban Renewal, annual report, 1971 |
| Box 24 | Folder 15 | Department of Urban Renewal, Austin: Land Use Study, 1968 |
| Box 24 | Folder 16 | Department of Urban Renewal, Central Englewood Ill. R-47, 1965 |
| Box 24 | Folder 17 | Department of Urban Renewal, Community Renewal in Southeast Englewood, 1964 |
| Box 24 | Folder 18 | Department of Urban Renewal, Clybourn-Ogden: Project 1 Redevelopment Plan, 1967 |
| Box 24 | Folder 19 | Department of Urban Renewal, Commercial Relocation Facts, 1964 |
| Box 24 | Folder 20 | Department of Urban Renewal, Commercial Relocation Payments, 1965, 1967 |
| Box 24 | Folder 21 | Department of Urban Renewal, Commercial Relocation Program, 1965, 1967 |
| Box 24 | Folder 22 | Department of Urban Renewal, Community Improvement Program: Proposals for Program Expansion, 1967 |
| Box 24 | Folder 23 |
Department of Urban Renewal, Community Improvement Program: Study Areas, 1967 Brochures include: 24th-Bell, 33rd-Michigan, 45th-Ashland, 63rd-Ashland, 67th-Stony Island, 79th-Racine, Austin, Central West, Chicago-Orleans, East Central Englewood, East Garfield Park, East Humboldt Park, Lakeview, Lawndale, Lawrence-Kedzie, Lincoln Park, North Kenwood-Oakland, Pilsen-Heart of Chicago, West Garfield Park and Woodlawn |
| Box 24 | Folder 24 | Department of Urban Renewal, Douglas-Lawndale: Urban Renewal Plan, 1968 |
| Box 24 | Folder 25 | Department of Urban Renewal, Douglas-Lawndale: Urban Renewal Plan Amended, 1968 |
| Box 24 | Folder 26 | Department of Urban Renewal, East Humboldt Park, Near Northwest Community: Facts, 1965 |
| Box 24 | Folder 27 | Department of Urban Renewal, East Humboldt Park, Near Northwest Community: Proposals, 1965 |
| Box 24 | Folder 28 | Department of Urban Renewal, Financing Urban Renewal Programs, article by Lewis W. Hill, 1967 |
| Box 25 | Folder 1 | Department of Urban Renewal, Land Acquisition Policy Statement, 1977 |
| Box 25 | Folder 2 | Department of Urban Renewal, Lawndale: Background for Planning and Lawndale: Proposals and Recommendations for Planning, 1964 |
| Box 25 | Folder 3 | Department of Urban Renewal, Lawndale Conservation Plan, 1968 |
| Box 25 | Folder 4 | Department of Urban Renewal, Lincoln Park General Neighborhood Renewal Plan, 1967 |
| Box 25 | Folder 5 | Department of Urban Renewal, Lincoln Park: Project 1, circa 1965 |
| Box 25 | Folder 6 | Department of Urban Renewal, Lincoln Park: Project 1 Preliminary Proposal, 1964 |
| Box 25 | Folder 7 | Department of Urban Renewal, Looking Forward in Lincoln Park, 1966 |
| Box 25 | Folder 8 | Department of Urban Renewal, Madison-Canal, 1967 |
| Box 25 | Folder 9 | Department of Urban Renewal, Near West Side Community Improvement, 1964 |
| Box 25 | Folder 10 | Department of Urban Renewal, Near West Side Urban Renewal Plan, 1968 |
| Box 25 | Folder 11 | Department of Urban Renewal, North Loop Study Area, 1973 |
| Box 25 | Folder 12 | Department of Urban Renewal, Preserving the Architectural Character of a Neighborhood: A Preliminary Study, circa 1962 |
| Box 25 | Folder 13 | Department of Urban Renewal, Questions & Answers about the 312 Loan & the 115 Grant, 1970 |
| Box 25 | Folder 14 | Department of Urban Renewal, record books for management, relocation, rehabilitation, residential, circa 1970 |
| Box 25 | Folder 15 | Department of Urban Renewal, redevelopment plan publication covers, 1960s |
| Box 25 | Folder 16 | Department of Urban Renewal, Rehabilitation Loans & Grants, 1969 |
| Box 25 | Folder 17 | Department of Urban Renewal, Relocation as the Means to the Realization of a Decent Home and a Suitable Living Environment for Every Chicago Family, 1965 |
| Box 26 | Folder 1 | Department of Urban Renewal, relocation fact books, circa 1960-1967 |
| Box 26 | Folder 2 | Department of Urban Renewal, Relocation West Madison “Skid Row” Residents, 1967 |
| Box 26 | Folder 3 | Department of Urban Renewal, Roosevelt-Halsted: Proposals for Renewal Summary, 1966 |
| Box 26 | Folder 4 |
Department of Urban Renewal, Six Month Progress Report with photographic prints, 1973 January-June Photographs include: Walpole Point townhouses, North Park Tower, North Avenue widening, Campus Green, Stein Building demolition, Martin Luther King Plaza apartments, Barbara Jean Wright Courts, Douglas-Lawndale rehabilitation project, Jewel at 6200 S. Halsted Street, Lake Grove Village, Lake Village East Tower and Bryson Hotel |
| Box 26 | Folder 5 | Department of Urban Renewal, Urban Renewal Review, newsletter, 1966 August-September, 1967 August |
| Box 26 | Folder 6 | Department of Urban Renewal, Welcome to Douglas-Lawndale, circa 1969 |
| Box 26 | Folder 7 | Department of Urban Renewal, What Does Chicago’s Renewal Program Mean, circa 1969 |
| Box 26 | Folder 8 | Department of Urban Renewal, What’s Happening in Hyde Park-Kenwood?, 1964 |
| Box 26 | Folder 9 | Department of Urban Renewal, Your Tree is a …, circa 1969 |
| Box 26 | Folder 10 | Detroit, urban renewal studies, 1959, 1963 |
| Box 26 | Folder 12 | East Humboldt Park-Near Northwest Conservation Community Council, citizen reaction report on Department of Urban Renewal proposals, 1969 |
| Box 26 | Folder 13 | Federal Housing Administration, Digest of Affordable Loans, 1965 |
| Box 26 | Folder 14 | Federal Housing Administration, Home Owner’s Guide, 1961 |
| Box 26 | Folder 15 | Focus on Chicago Business, newsletter, 1976 December |
| Box 26 | Folder 16 | Ford Foundation, Housing and Urban Development: The Private Foundation’s Role, 1965 |
| Box 26 | Folder 17 | Forum, Special Issue: Chicago, 1962 May |
| Box 26 | Folder 18 | Freeways in the Urban Setting, 1962 |
| Box 26 | Folder 19 | Geographic Society of Chicago, Chicago: City of Decisions, 1955 |
| Box 26 | Folder 20 | Georgia, Richmond County Standard Specifications for Construction of All Roads and Streets, 1953 |
| Box 26 | Folder 21 | Georgia Institute of Technology, Downtown Atlanta Radial Transit, 1967 |
| Box 26 | Folder 22 | Good Architecture is Good Government, speech by Henry R. Luce, 1957 |
| Box 26 | Folder 23 | Governing Urban Society: New Scientific Approaches, journal, 1967 |
| Box 26 | Folder 24 | Historic American Buildings Survey, article and pamphlets, 1963-1964 |
| Box 26 | Folder 25 | HUD Federally Aided Programs in Chicago, 1969 |
| Box 27 | Folder 1 | Hyde Park and Its Savings and Loan Association, speech by Charles Benson, 1964 |
| Box 27 | Folder 2 | Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference, Designing Urban Parking Lots, 1961 |
| Box 27 | Folder 3 | Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference, Segments of the Past, 1962 |
| Box 27 | Folder 4 | Hyde Park-Kenwood Urban Renewal Years: A History to Date by Muriel Beadle, 1965 |
| Box 27 | Folder 5 | Illinois, Department of Business and Economic Development, Outdoor Recreation in in Illinois, circa 1965 |
| Box 27 | Folder 6 | Illinois, Department of Business and Economic Development, Outdoor Recreation in in Illinois, conference proceedings 1965 |
| Box 27 | Folder 7 | Illinois, State Housing Board, Illinois Housing Laws, circa 1956 |
| Box 27 | Folder 8 | Inland Architect, 1960 April |
| Box 27 | Folder 9 | Institute of Traffic Engineers, Committee 6-C, Traffic Planning for Urban Renewal Projects in Chicago, Illinois, 1962 |
| Box 27 | Folder 10 | Japan, urban renewal studies, 1962, 1964 |
| Box 27 | Folder 11 | Jersey City, progress report, circa 1969 |
| Box 27 | Folder 12 | Johnson & Johnson, Sound Government Board, This May Hurt a Little, 1958 |
| Box 27 | Folder 13 | Lakeside Bank, Building for a Greater Chicago, 1972 |
| Box 27 | Folder 14 | Lawndale, Chicago – Replanned, typed thesis by Nomenee B. Robinson, 1961 |
| Box 27 | Folder 15 | Metro Chicago Real Estate, 75th Anniversary Issue, 1988 April |
| Box 27 | Folder 16 | Metropolitan Area Planning Conference, proceedings, 1960 September 14 |
| Box 27 | Folder 17 | Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council, Housing the Economically and Socially Disadvantaged Groups in the Population, 1961 |
| Box 27 | Folder 18 | Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council, Needed! A Housing Code for Chicago, circa 1955 |
| Box 27 | Folder 19 | Model Block Program, Lawndale, 1985 |
| Box 28 | Folder 1 | Monuments and Memorials in the Chicago Park District by Robert E. Moore, 1963 |
| Box 28 | Folder 2 | National Association of Home Builders, NAHB Journal of Homebuilding, 1963 July |
| Box 28 | Folder 3 | National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO), A Public Relations Guide for Small Authorities, 1958 |
| Box 28 | Folder 4 | National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO), Chicago Chapter brochures, 1977, undated |
| Box 28 | Folder 5 | National Association of Real Estate Boards, Don’t Live with Mr. Blight, brochure, circa 1965 |
| Box 28 | Folder 6 | National Fire Protection Association, Flood Plain Zoning and Evacuation, 1939 |
| Box 28 | Folder 7 | National League of Cities, Financing Our Urban Needs$$, 1969 |
| Box 28 | Folder 8 | Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning Commission, annual report, 1961 |
| Box 28 | Folder 9 | Office of the Mayor, Hello Democrats! Welcome to Chicago, brochure, 1968 |
| Box 28 | Folder 10 | Old Town Triangle Association, Urban Renewal Opinion Survey, 1964 |
| Box 28 | Folder 11 | Open Lands Project, brochure, circa 1968 |
| Box 28 | Folder 12 | Open Space Action, 1969 March-April |
| Box 28 | Folder 13 | Population Reference Bureau, Population Bulletin, 1975 |
| Box 28 | Folder 14 | Port of Chicago, brochure, circa 1969 |
| Box 28 | Folder 15 | Port of Chicago, Chicago Port Unification, 1970 |
| Box 28 | Folder 16 | Pyramidwest Development Corporation, newsletter, 1981 March |
| Box 28 | Folder 17 | Regional Transportation Planning Board, The Changing Nature of Transportation, 1973 |
| Box 28 | Folder 18 | Sears, Roebuck & Co., Community Planning Division, ABC’s of Community Planning, 1962 |
| Box 28 | Folder 19 | Sears, Roebuck & Co., Community Planning Division, The Role of the Garden Club in Community Beautification, 1964 |
| Box 28 | Folder 20 | Sears, Roebuck & Co., Urban Renewal Division, ABC’s of Urban Renewal, 1957 |
| Box 28 | Folder 21 | Sears, Roebuck & Co., Urban Renewal Division, ABC’s Citizens in Urban Renewal, 1959 |
| Box 28 | Folder 22 | South Side Planning Board, An Agenda for Development, 1977 |
| Box 28 | Folder 23 | South Side Planning Board, An Opportunity to Rebuild Chicago Through Industrial Development on the Central South Side, 1953 |
| Box 28 | Folder 24 | South Side Planning Board, An Opportunity for Urban Renewal on Chicago’s Near South Side, 1956 |
| Box 28 | Folder 25 | State Planning Strengthens State Government, paper by Guy Kelnhofer, 1964 |
| Box 28 | Folder 26 | Tenants Relocation Bureau, The Homeless Man on Skid Row, 1961 |
| Box 28 | Folder 27 | Tenants Relocation Bureau, Relocation in Chicago, 1958 |
| Box 28 | Folder 29 | University of Chicago School of Business, Metropolitan Chicago: An Economic Profile, 1958 |
| Box 28 | Folder 30 | University of Illinois, Building Research Council, Design of the Housing Site, 1966 |
| Box 29 | Folder 1 | University of Illinois, Bureau of Community Planning, brochures, newsletter and papers, 1963-1968 |
| Box 29 | Folder 2 | University of Pittsburgh, Public Attitudes and Metropolitan Decision Making, 1962 |
| Box 29 | Folder 3 | Urban Land Institute, North Lawndale, Chicago, Illinois: An Evaluation of Redevelopment Potential and Strategies for the North Lawndale Community of Chicago Illinois, report, 1986 |
| Box 29 | Folder 4 | Urban Renewal Administration, Historic Preservation Through Urban Renewal, 1963 |
| Box 29 | Folder 5 | Urban Renewal Administration, memos, 1963-1965 |
| Box 29 | Folder 6 | Urban Renewal Administration, The Urban Renewal Program Fact Sheet, 1964 |
| Box 29 | Folder 7 | Urban Renewal Demonstration Project: URBANDOC Input Index 1, circa 1968 |
| Box 29 | Folder 8 | Urban Renewal Demonstration Project: URBANDOC Input Index 3, circa 1968 |
| Box 29 | Folder 9 | U.S. Department of Commerce, Airport Design, 1949 |
| Box 29 | Folder 10 | U.S. Department of Commerce, Model Traffic Ordinance, 1953 |
| Box 29 | Folder 11 | U.S. Department of Commerce, Our Growing Population, 1961 |
| Box 29 | Folder 12 | U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fifth Biennial HUD Awards for Design Excellence, 1973 |
| Box 29 | Folder 13 | U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Programs, 1966 |
| Box 29 | Folder 14 | U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Summary of the Urban Renewal Program, 1966 |
Series 3: Subject Files, 1935-1990
Scope and Contents
Series 3 contains correspondence, research notes and publications related to Rich’s other areas of interest including environmentalism, gardening, Native American culture and the artificial language created by the Loglan Institute.
The Loglan Institute developed and promoted an artificial, logical human language called “Loglan,” first introduced by Dr. James Cooke Brown in 1955. Rich served as “Cerpeu of La Purmao Diigru” for the Loglan Institute, a title that roughly translates to Chairperson of the Word Creation Committee. She was also interested in the language as it related to linguistics and education in general, a lifelong interest of hers. This series includes issues of The Loglanist journal from 1976 to 1983, flash cards, correspondence, newsletters, worksheets and grammar exercises.
Arrangement
Series 1 is arranged alphabetically by topic, type of action or materials type.
| Box 30 | Folder 1 | 911 universal emergency number, 1976 |
| Box 30 | Folder 2 | Alaska, book catalog and news clippings, 1938 |
| Box 30 | Folder 3 | American Bar Association, National Institutes on Obscenity Litigation, 1977 |
| Box 30 | Folder 4 | Book catalogs, 1988-1989 |
| Box 30 | Folder 5 | Cuba, articles and news clippings, 1935, 1938-1939 |
| Box 30 | Folder 6 | Environmentalism and gardening, correspondence, 1945-1979 |
| Box 30 | Folder 7 | Environmentalism and gardening, correspondence, 1980-1990 |
| Box 30 | Folder 8 | Environmentalism and gardening, energy conservation articles, 1979-1981 |
| Box 30 | Folder 9 | Environmentalism and gardening, news clippings, 1979-1989 |
| Box 30 | Folder 10 | Environmentalism and gardening, recycling articles, 1985-1987, undated |
| Box 30 | Folder 11 | Environmentalism and gardening, Sierra Club, 1980-1982, 1986 |
| Box 30 | Folder 12 | Environmentalism and gardening, urban gardening articles, 1975-1984 |
| Box 30 | Folder 13 | Government newsletters, 1986-1987 |
| Box 30 | Folder 14 | Korean War, statement and paper, |
| Box 30 | Folder 15 | Labor, H.R. 1398 “Quality of Life Action Act,” 1987 |
| Box 31 | Folder 1 | Loglan, by-laws and introduction, undated |
| Box 31 | Folder 2 | Loglan Institute, correspondence and language materials, 1976 |
| Box 31 | Folder 3 | Loglan Institute, correspondence and language materials, 1977 |
| Box 31 | Folder 4 | Loglan Institute, correspondence and language materials, 1978 |
| Box 31 | Folder 5 | Loglan Institute, correspondence and language materials, 1978 |
| Box 31 | Folder 6 | Loglan Institute, correspondence and language materials, 1979 |
| Box 31 | Folder 7 | Loglan Institute, correspondence and language materials, 1980 |
| Box 31 | Folder 8 | Loglan Institute, correspondence and language materials, 1981 |
| Box 31 | Folder 9 | Loglan Institute, correspondence and language materials, 1982 |
| Box 31 | Folder 10 | Loglan Institute, correspondence and language materials, 1983 |
| Box 31 | Folder 11 | Loglan Institute, correspondence and language materials, 1984 |
| Box 32 | Folder 1 | Loglan Institute, correspondence and language materials, 1985 |
| Box 32 | Folder 2 | Loglan Institute, correspondence and language materials, 1986 |
| Box 32 | Folder 3 | Loglan Institute, correspondence and language materials, 1987 |
| Box 32 | Folder 4 | Loglan Institute, correspondence and language materials, 1988 |
| Box 32 | Folder 5 | Loglan Institute, correspondence and language materials, 1988 |
| Box 32 | Folder 6 | Loglan Institute, correspondence and language materials, 1989 |
| Box 35 | Folder 1 | Loglan Institute, loose language materials, undated |
| Box 33 | Loglan Institute, loose language notes, undated | |
| Box 34 | Loglan Institute, loose language notes, undated | |
| Box 35 | Folder 2 | Loglan Institute, The Loglanist, 1976 August, December |
| Box 35 | Folder 3 | Loglan Institute, The Loglanist, 1977 February, April, June, August |
| Box 35 | Folder 4 | Loglan Institute, The Loglanist, 1979 February, March, October, December |
| Box 35 | Folder 5 | Loglan Institute, The Loglanist, 1980 February, June, August, November, December |
| Box 35 | Folder 6 | Loglan Institute, The Loglanist, 1981 September, December |
| Box 35 | Folder 7 | Loglan Institute, The Loglanist, 1983 April, October |
| Box 30 | Folder 16 | Native Americans, correspondence and research, 1952, 1959 |
| Box 30 | Folder 17 | Native Americans, correspondence and research, 1960-1970 |
| Box 30 | Folder 18 | Native Americans, correspondence and research, 1986-1987, 1989 |
| Box 30 | Folder 19 | Native American, pamphlets, 1957, 1969, undated |
| Box 30 | Folder 20 | Senior Citizens, map and guide, 1972, 1976 |
| Box 30 | Folder 21 | Socialism, For a New Beginning, pamphlet by Anton Garden, circa 1939 |
| Box 30 | Folder 22 | Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), report, circa 1950 |
| Box 30 | Folder 23 | United States Conference of Mayors, Chicago, publications, 1968 |
| Box 30 | Folder 24 | Welfare, news clippings, 1985, 1987 |
Series 4: Theodore Rich Family, 1821-1970
Scope and Contents
Series 4 contains papers and photographs that pertain to the family of Theodore “Ted” Freeling Rich, Faith Rich’s husband. One of six children, Ted Rich was born on January 7, 1906, in Burlington, Vermont, to Anna Varney and Dr. Frank A. Rich. Ted’s father was a veterinarian who was commissioned by the United States government to research Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease in 1902. Ted attended the University of Vermont and went on to do his graduate studies at the University of Chicago. In 1943, at the age of 37, he was drafted into the Army and deployed to Europe where his ability to communicate in multiple languages led to his placement as a German language educator and translator. After the war, Ted did editorial work for the American Medical Association (AMA) and Encyclopedia Britannica. He died on November 18, 2009.
Arrangement
Ted Rich’s ancestral family materials are organized into two subseries: Subseries A: Documents, 1821-1953 and Subseries B: Photographs, circa 1855-1970
Subseries A: Documents, 1821-1953
Scope and Contents
Subseries A contains genealogical notes and legal documents, such as indentures and mortgages, for the Rich and Varney families in the areas of Burlington, Vermont, and East Avon, New York, along with correspondence that dates from the 1820s through 1970. Ted’s ancestral lines include the Cole, Milliman, Smith, Varney and Rich families.
The bulk of the family letters include those written by or to Ted’s parents, Dr. Frank A. and Anna Rich; as well as his siblings, Ethelinda, Frank, Lucy, Ramon and Robert. A selection of the letters have detailed inventories with contextual and biographical notes about the correspondents that were made by Chicago Public Library staff and Ted Rich around the time the collection was donated in 1993. Folders with letters and documents for Ted’s parents that were found grouped together have been retained in this fashion. However, additional correspondence to and from Anna and Frank can be found in the Rich Family letters.
More information about the Rich-Varney family lines can be found in the book, Around the Mountains: Historical Essays about Charlotte, Ferrisburgh, and Monkton, by William Wallace Higbee. (F49.5.H54 1991)
Subseries A also contains a selection of Ted’s personal and academic writings, including his WPA research on Chicago packinghouses, poetry and a scholarly article. His Civil Service Translator ratings in French, German, Italian and Spanish are also in this subseries.
Arrangement
Subseries A is arranged alphabetically by last name.
| Box 36 | Folder 1 | Cole, Isaac G., Civil War correspondence to Dr. William Varney, 1863 |
| Box 36 | Folder 2 | Milliman family, bills and property indentures [New York and Vermont], 1821-1836 |
| Box 36 | Folder 3 | Milliman family, bills and property indentures [New York and Vermont], 1839-1845, 1850-1851, 1861 |
| Box 36 | Folder 4 | Rich, Dr. Frank A., correspondence and documents, 1902-1912 |
| Box 36 | Folder 5 | Rich, Theodore, documents and writings, circa 1930s |
| Box 36 | Folder 6 | Rich, Theodore, packinghouse labor research [for WPA], 1939 |
| Box 36 | Folder 7 | Rich, Theodore, poetry, circa 1930s-1940s |
| Box 36 | Folder 8 | Rich Family correspondence, 1861, 1866 |
| Box 36 | Folder 9 | Rich Family correspondence, 1883-1889 |
| Box 36 | Folder 10 | Rich Family correspondence, 1890-1899 |
| Box 36 | Folder 11 | Rich Family correspondence, 1900-1919 |
| Box 36 | Folder 12 | Rich Family correspondence, 1920-1925 |
| Box 36 | Folder 13 | Rich Family correspondence, 1926 |
| Box 37 | Folder 1 | Rich Family correspondence, 1927-1929 |
| Box 37 | Folder 2 | Rich Family correspondence, 1930-1939 |
| Box 37 | Folder 3 | Rich Family correspondence, 1940-1953 |
| Box 37 | Folder 4 | Rich Family correspondence, undated |
| Box 37 | Folder 5 | Rich Family genealogy documents, 1888-1930s |
| Box 37 | Folder 6 | Smith, Samuel E. and Sallie A., correspondence, 1859-1864 |
| Box 37 | Folder 7 | Varney, Anna, correspondence, 1889-1891 |
| Box 37 | Folder 8 | Varney, David, Civil War account and obituary, circa 1865, 1873 |
| Box 37 | Folder 9 | Varney, William H.H., correspondence and documents, 1859-1890 |
| Box 37 | Folder 10 | Varney Family, genealogy notes and documents, undated |
Series 4: Theodore Rich Family, 1821-1970
Subseries B: Photographs, circa 1855-1970
Scope and Contents
Subseries B consists of photographs, including tin types, ambrotypes and cyanotypes, of Ted Rich’s ancestral families.
Arrangement
Subseries B is arranged alphabetically by last name.
| Box 38 | Photograph 1.58 | Palmer, Frank, portrait, undated |
| Box 38 | Photograph 1.59 | Palmer, Henry with Ruth Chamberlain, circa 1919 |
| Box 38 | Photographs 1.60-1.62 | Rich, Anna Varney, with infants including Ethelinda (3), circa 1900 |
| Box 38 | Photograph 1.63 | Rich, Dr. Frank A., portrait, undated |
| Box 38 | Photograph 1.64 | Rich, Theodore, fencing team, circa 1924 |
| Box 38 | Photographs 1.65-1.66 | Rich, Theodore, portraits (2), circa 1960s |
| Box 38 | Photographs 1.67-1.86 | Rich Family, mostly unidentified nieces and nephews (20), circa 1980s-1990 |
| Box 38 | Photographs 1.87-1.92 | Rich Family children: Ethelinda, Frank, Lucy, Ramon, Robert and Theodore (5), circa 1913-1930s |
| Box 38 | Photographs 1.93-1.121 | Rich or Varney Family and friends, unidentified, includes 2 cyanotypes (28), circa 1860s-1920s |
| Box 38 | Photographs 1.122-1.129 | Rich or Varney Family and friends, unidentified (8), circa 1880s-1920s |
| Box 38 | Photographs 1.130-1.140 | Rich or Varney Family and friends, unidentified (11), undated |
| Box 38 | Photograph 1.141 | Spear, Lucy, portrait, undated |
| Box 38 | Photograph 1.142 | Varney, Minnetta, portrait, undated |
| Box 38 | Photograph 1.143 | Varney, William, H.H., his wife and unidentified persons, undated |
| Box 38 | Photograph 1.144 | Varney, William, H.H., portrait, tintype, undated |
| Box 39 | Photographs 1.145-1.185 | Rich-Varney Family and friends, photo album, includes: Olive Bacon, Albert Ball, Bert Ball, Eliza Smith Ball, James “Matt” Ball, Salinda “Sally” Ball, Mary Putnam Blodgett, Augusta Ball, Dr. Harvey, Kate Horsford, Celinda Ball Tucker Palmer, Frederick Palmer, Cyrus Pringle, Simeon Putnam, Benjamin Taggert, Kate Taggert, Robert Taggert and Minnetta Varney (41), undated |
| Box 40 | Photographs 1.186-1.196 | Rich-Varney Family and friends, tintype and ambrotype portraits, unidentified (10), circa 1855-1880s |
| Box 40 | Photographs 1.197-1.206 | Rich-Varney Family and friends, photograph album (some tintypes), (Includes Fred Palmer, Eliza Smith, Minnetta Varney and unidentified) (10), circa 1880s-1890s |
