The Chicago Biography and Industry File is now online! This unique Newberry Library document is an index to sketches on over 15,000 people and industries that appeared in forty-eight collective biographies and industrial guides. It includes volumes such as Chicago & Its Distinguished Citizens and Manufacturing and Wholesale Industries of Chicago. All of these volumes were published between 1876 and 1937 and they are all held within the Newberry collections. For more information, contact us.