The Chicago Crime commission is asking for donations to digitize their 83-year-old criminal files.
The total number of paper reports, memos, publications by the Crime Commission officers, staff, and investigators that the commission has is estimated to be over one million. The files include newspaper articles from defunct newspapers such as the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago American. Some of these files are deteriorating and they will be digitized in the first phase.
The new digitization will greatly help researchers, journalists, scholars, and law enforcement agencies to form a clearer picture of crime and public corruption dating back to 1919.
Printable Version