Tag: Chicago, Illinois (U.S.)*
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Mask Mandates: A History of Rebellion
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M164 Creator: Cameron Issacs ’21 Public Health The influenza pandemic of 1918 was the most-deadly flu outbreak in history; it was caused by an H1N1 virus of avian origin. The virus spread worldwide during 1918-1919 and as seen on the map, it was first identified in the United States in April of 1918…
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An Analysis of the 1918 Spanish Flu, the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Lasting Effects of Racial Disparities in the African Diaspora Exposed Through These Pandemics
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M172 Creator: Christina Inya ’21 Public Health This map demonstrates one of the commonalities between the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and the 1918 Spanish Flu, in how the infection rates disproportionately targeted the Black communities living in America. It is especially interesting to note how during the 1918 Spanish flu, the top six most…
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AIDS and COVID-19 Social Uprisings and Protests
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M169 Creator: Debie Aguilar ’22 Public Health This map details the AIDS and COVID-19 pandemic social uprisings that occurred throughout the United States. The blue squares show the cities that were affected by large number of COVID-19 cases and the purple squares depict the cities affected by AIDS cases. To further show the…
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Rise in Hate Crime Reports From 2019 to 2020
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M167 Creator: Ian Ono-Gerow ’21 East Asian Studies The Map shows the increase in the number of reported cases of hate crime in some of the major cities in the United States, comparing the year 2019 which was before the Covid-19 pandemic, and the year 2020, which is after the pandemic has started.…
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Anti-Asian American Physically Violent Hate Crimes During Covid-19 & 3rd Wave of Bubonic Plague
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M116 Creator: Micaela Wallace ’21 German & History As with the Third Wave of the Bubonic Plague 100 years ago, the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020 resulted in millions of people’s deaths. The United States responded in both pandemics by blaming the Asian-American community. Anti-Asian American physically violent hate crimes rose significantly through…
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Railways and Immigration, 1865-1914
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M090 Creator: John Fowell ’20 Geology As immigrants arrived in the United States looking for a new life, they used the railways to travel west into the American continent. They arrived in East Coast cities, like New York and Boston and headed into the Great Lakes and Midwest to places like Buffalo,…