Leigh Buchanan Bienen: Works

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Chicago History Comes Alive Through Interactive Databases

A group of messenger boys walking down a Chicago sidewalk during a strike on July 26, 1902. Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum

Title: Chicago History Comes Alive Through Interactive Databases Year: 2024 Publisher: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law News Author: Northwestern Now Staff Issue: January 29, 2024 Description: Writer, advocate and teacher Leigh Bienen’s digital projects are lenses for viewing extraordinary periods in our past

Good old days? Not for killings—Homicide rate for 1930 nearly same as last year’s

Title: Good old days? Not for killings—Homicide rate for 1930 nearly same as last year’s Year: 2004 Publisher: The Chicago Sun-Times Author: Frank Main Issue: June 8, 2004 Description: The Chicago Sun-Times article announcing the launch of the Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930 website, which received ~70k visits the weekend of its launch. What is perhaps […]

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