Other Chicago Extra-Institutional Archives

• Africans In Chicago Oral History Project
• Alternative Press Center
• April 1968 Oral History Project
• Bronzeville Historical Society
• Chicago Art Archive
• Chicago Film Archives
• Chicago Grassroots Curriculum Taskforce
• Corbett vs. Dempsey’s Sun Ra El Saturn Artifacts
• Domestic Worker Oral History Project
• Experimental Sound Studio
• Gerber/Hart LBGTQ Library and Archives
• History Makers
• Intuit collection of outsider art
• Leather Archives
• Media Burn
• Occupy Chicago Oral History Project
• Public Collectors
• Read/Write Library
• Rebuild Foundation
• Sixty Inches From Center
• Trans Oral History Project
• Uncomfortable Spaces
• Woman Made 

Additional Resources

Thanks to the the Chicago Cultural Alliance for listing and networking Chicago’s neighborhood museums and cultural centers and to the American Historical Association for this links page on general archival resources in Chicago

Institutional Special Collections – Local Arts Related

• Artist Books at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
• Chicago Advocates for Signed Theater collection at DePaul University
• Chicago Architects Oral History Project at the Art Institute of Chicago
• Chicago Artist Archives at Harold Washington Library
• Chicago Amplified event audio archives at Chicago Public Media
• Chicago History Museum
• Chicago Jazz Archive at University of Chicago
• Chicago Playwrights Collection at DePaul University
• Chicago Theater Collection at Harold Washington Library
• Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• P-Form Magazine Archive at
• Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive at School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• Miscellaneous Finding Aid collections at the Art Institute of Chicago
• Roger Brown collections and resources
• Video Data Bank at School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• Zine library at DePaul University

Chicago Art Media

• AREA Chicago
• Art 21 on Chicago
• ArtSlant Chicago
• Ausgang
• Bad At Sports
• Charles H Kerr
• Chicago Art Criticism Archive
• Chicago Art Machine
• Chicago Art Review
• Chicago Artist Resource
• Chicago Sun Times
• Chicago Tribune
• F-News Magazine
• Green Lantern Press
• Half Letter Press
• Lumpen Magazine
• Monsters and Dust
• Newcity Art
• Proximity Magazine
• Quimbys
• Regional Relationships
• Sixty Inches From Center
• Threewalls Press
• Timeout Chicago
• Whitewalls