CHICAGO METRO HISTORY FAIR 2013 SUMMARY STATEMENT FORM

Please TYPE on sheet or use word processing ALL PROJECTS: Attach an annotated bibliography. Please divide primary and secondary sources from each other. Two copies of SSF & Annotated Bibliography are required for competitions. .

Title ___Chicago Mental Asylum__________________________________________________________ Student name(s) ____ Miranda Catrambone, Montse Garcia, Kamil Andreasik. ___ Project Category: Group Individual Exhibit
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Check if applicable (and respond to the 3 question): This project uses the 2013 National History Day theme, Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, Events

1. THESIS STATEMENT Present the projects argument or interpretation in two sentences. If you are using the NHD theme, you might want to make it evident in your thesis statement. In 1851, Dunning was created in a prairie farm. In 1886, an investigation was formed due to minimal heat, no hot water, and poor ventilations. These conditions and abuse at Dunning pushed Chicagoans to donate $500,000 to create a better situation for the patients at the hospital.

2. SUMMARY OF PROJECT Briefly explain your project and its conclusion. Include: How and why did change happen and what was the impact? Why is it historically significant? What historical meaning or importance can we learn from your findings? Our project is on the abuse that happened within Dunning to the patients. It changed when the voters of Cook Country paid $500,000 to Dunning because they wanted a better place for the patients to heal. Dunning is now a well-known institution, for good and bad reasons.

3. Required for projects using the National History Day theme only. Explain how this project integrates the NHD theme Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, Events into its argument. This projects turning point is the $500,000 that was given to Dunning to help with the living conditions and possibly stop the abuse. The people is the patients and the care-takers, the idea is the form of "treatment" and the events is when the abuse occurred.

4. PROCESS A. What historical question did you start off withand how did it change once you began doing your research? First we started of with how the patients were treated before mental asylums were created in Chicago. Later it changed to how the patients were treated while they were inside Dunning. B. What kinds of sources did you use as evidence to develop your argument (for example, letters, photographs, government documents, interviews, etc.)? The main types of sources that we used were Chicago Tribune articles and photos. C. Select one piece of evidence that you used and explain how it influenced your argument.

Title: Chicago State Hospital (Dunning).

The article that most influenced our paper was "County Bond Fund". This helped with the website because it was our turning point so without it we would not have in cooperated this years National History Day theme into our argument.

D. List libraries (other than school), museums, and other institutions that you visited to do your research. We went to the Harold Washington Library and special collections, University of Chicago library, University of Illinois at Chicago Library.