Monuments to a Lost Nation

<Reprinted from Chicago History, Spring 2004>

Theodore J. Karamanski is a professor of history at Loyola University Chicago and the author of several books about Midwestern history including Schooner Passage: Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan Frontier (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002).

The author's webpage: http://www.luc.edu/depts/history/karaman/karaman.htm

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FOR FURTHER READING: For more on Chicago's Native American population, see Indians of the Chicago Area by Terry Straus (Chicago: NAES College, 1990); Chicago Indians: The Effects of Urban Migration by Prafulla Neog, Richard G. Woods, and Arthur M. Harkins (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Training Center for Community Programs, 1970); and the Raymond Foundation publication Indians of Early Chicago (1960). For more on the city's monuments, see Chicago Sculpture by James L. Riedy (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981) and Monuments and Memorials in the Chicago Park District (Chicago Park District Dept. of Public Information, 1979). The papers of Charles (Karl) A. Dilg are in the Chicago Historical Society's archives and manuscript collection.

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