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“Visual history at its best. Chicago under Glass is required reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century America, a must for those who love Chicago.”
Timothy J. Gilfoyle, author of Millennium Park

Chicago under Glass
Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News

Mark Jacob and Richard Cahan

”So long, Chicago,“ read the headline when the Daily News ran its last edition on March 4, 1978. Winner of thirteen Pulitzers, the Chicago Daily News launched the careers of Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, and Mike Royko, just to name a few. It was also one of the first dailies to incorporate eye-catching illustrations, and soon thereafter, black-and-white photography. Chicago under Glass: Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News is the breathtaking collection of photographs from those early years, 1901 to 1930. During those three decades, Chicago and America witnessed the invention of the airplane, the repeal of prohibition, and the Great War. Photographers at the Daily News covered these scenes, and then went beyond, capturing news as it broke in front of them. After the Daily News closed its doors, the fragile glass plate negatives that recorded such scenes—over 57,000 of them—were moved into storage at the Chicago History Museum. Chicago under Glass is the first book to focus solely on this collection, one of the finest to have survived to contemporary times. Chicago under Glass chronicles a time of massive change and stark contrasts, the defining years in a place Nelson Algren called ”Hustlertown.“ With over two hundred gorgeous duotones, complemented by insightful historical commentary, the book is a stunning tribute to the city, the nation, and the history of photojournalism.

Mark Jacob served as executive news editor and Sunday editor at the Chicago Sun-Times before moving on to the Chicago Tribune. Richard Cahan once the Chicago Sun-Times’ picture editor, was the director of CITY 2000.

 

Mark Jacob and Richard Cahan are both available for interviews. For more information, please contact Laura Andersen at (773) 702-0890 or landersen@press.uchicago.edu