Answered By: Ellen Keith
Last Updated: May 16, 2023     Views: 217

Member institutions are often asked for their archival holdings on restrictive covenants.

Chicago History Museum Research Center

Lake Forest College's Digital Chicago

Newberry Library

  • The Walter & Beckwith Reality Company Records  Records retained by Waller & Beckwith Realty Co., including general business files and legal documents. bulk of the material dates from the 1920s-1940s, and documents financial difficulties and living conditions in Chicago during this time, as well as various changes and improvements to the city, including street widenings and the shift from trolleys to busses. Also unique to the era are the restrictive covenants enacted by neighborhood associations, and documents detailing prohibition violations by tenants.
  • Miscellaneous Property Agreements - Negro Restriction Agreements, 1936-1938. Part of the Newberry Library Archives. See this article by former Newberry Library President and Librarian Daniel Greene for the context.

University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center

Illinois Institute of Technology

  • The Bronzeville Collection records include some secondary materials about the neighborhood, but has no specific background documentation on restrictive covenants.

Chicago Public Library

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