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Searching for Chicago’s Criminal Past
Professor BushFebruary 7, 2018
Tonight
• First Assignment recap• Customizing WP:
• Headers, colors• Updates
• Setting the context of crime in Chicago.
• How search works• Great H390 Scavenger Hunt
Blogging in this class• Formal written assignments, not social media posts.• Watch the word count minimum – there is no maximum, though I do give an ideal range.
• Use proper grammar.• Spell check.• Read it before you submit it.• Write a beginning, a middle and an end.• Use paragraphs. • Hyperlinks!
Site Stuff
• I need to be an administrator (under Users). • Id: profbush• Pw: s18h390 (check the box that acknowledges it’s a weak password)• Email: [email protected]• Administrator, no website
• You MUST verify your email address!•Wordpress Help is available online. • If you get stuck, I can help you.• You need to stay on top of the site updates. Let me show you how.
My site is so gray!
Let’s Customize them
• Header and background images.• Color• Google Fonts!
• Plugin: Easy Google Fonts• https://fonts.google.com/
For participation credit:• Customize your sites in some way – images, colors, and/or fonts.• Make it yours.
• After class: edit your About page – tell me a little about yourself, remember these are public.
Chicago – Murder City
1870‐1930
‘Periodizing’ the Period
1870’s 1880’s 1890’s 1900’s 1910’s 1920’s 1930’s
Gilded Age Progressive Era Jazz Age Great Depression
Explosive national growth:• Cities• Industries – steel, oil, railroads, mining,
meatpacking, ranching, timber, livestock, farming
• Immigration• Political corruption• Labor unrest – worker exploitation,
rising urban poor, vast economic inequality, injuries
Radical reforms, largely in response to the excesses of the Gilded Age:• Pure Food and Drug Act• Trustbusting• Muckraking journalists• Child Labor laws• Land conservation• Jim Crow segregation &
2nd rise of the Ku Klux Klan
Popular economic growth & Depression:• Extremes in excess• Rise and restriction of
consumer culture• Nation‐wide prohibition
of alcohol• Woman’s suffrage,
Harlem Renaissance
How Search Works
• Bots, Spiders• Crawling• Indexing• Search Results • Ranking• Advertising• Filter bubbles• Personalization• Location
Great History 390 Scavenger Hunt
Participation Credit: Post what you find to your blogs!Search for at least 2 of the 4 options below and try to answer as many of the questions in that search as possible. Please post everything you find to your blogs in a new post. Include links to all digital sources you used to find answers. You may need to do multiple searches to find the answer.
1. Jane Addams’ Hull House famously served a wide variety of immigrants in Chicago. What maps can you find that show the ethnic diversity of Chicago during this time? Where did you find them?
2. How many different tickets can you find to either enter and/or experience the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893? What are the differences between them in cost and what they allow you to do? Where did you find them?
3. You read somewhere that the Chicago River flows backwards. Can you find out why? Include as many details as you can.
4. Which Gilded Age tycoons lived in Chicago? Why were they famous and where did they live? How many can you identify and locate? How many of these mansions still stand?