SELECTED SOURCES
Caleb Frank Gates’s biography A Christian Business Man (Boston and Chicago: Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, 1892) provided an invaluable account of the life and work of his father, founder Caleb F. Gates.
The published annual reports of the Chicago City Missionary Society and its successor institutions, to be found in the archives of the Chicago Theological Seminary, served as the principal source from 1883 to 1949. Important for the later period was the unpublished two· volume study of the Society and its activities undertaken by Niel E. Hansen, general director of the Society from 1936 to 1960. Other primary sources included the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Daily News, and Time magazine.
Also helpful were the following:
Ade, George. The Old-Time Saloon, Not Wet--Not Dry, Just History. New York: R. Long & R.R. Smith, Inc., 1931.
Community Renewal Society. Community Renewal Foundation: A History in Review. Chicago: Community Renewal Society, 1972.
Community Renewal Society. The CRS Story. Series of 3 pamphlets. Chicago: Community Renewal Society, 1978-79.
Cutler, Irving. Chicago: Metropolis of the Mid-Continent. Chicago: The Geographic Society of Chicago, 1973.
Dedmon, Emmett. Great Enterprises: YMCA, A Hundred Years in Metropolitan Chicago. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1957.
Ernst, Eldon G. Moment of Truth for Protestant America: Interchurch Campaigns Following World War I. Missoula, Montana: American Academy of Religion, 1974.
Farr, Finis. Chicago: A Personal History of America’s Most American City. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1973.
Ginger, Ray. Altgeld’s America: The Lincoln Ideal Versus Changing Realities. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, Inc., 1958.
Hallenbeck, Wilbur C. Urban Organization of Protestantism. New York: Harper and Brothers for the Institute of Social and Religious Research, 1934.
Mayer, Harold M. and Richard C. Wade. Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1969.
Thompson, Warren E. Building A Christian Chicago, 1882-1932: The Chicago Congregational Union. Chicago: Chicago Congregational Union, 1932.