Databases:

• Historical Newspaper Articles:
  
  
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers - Lake Forest Public Library database (use barcode number on back of library card to access). After logging in, be sure to click the link for the Chicago Tribune, either the historical one (1849-1987) or the current one, depending on when your influential Chicagoan lived.
    
    
• Biographies:
  
  
  • Gale's Biography in Context
  • Ebsco's Biography Reference Center

Web Sites:

• Encyclopedia of Chicago
• Jane Addams Hull House Museum