Articles of Incorporation and by-laws, news clippings about the settlement house, manuscript notes and statistics, reports, minutes, correspondence, school schedules, subscription blanks, accounting information, announcements of lectures and other activities, unemployment surveys, "Pleasant Sunday Afternoon" and other programs, Chicago Commons Women's Club yearbooks and other material, Chicago Commons Choral Club materials, postcards, song sheets for Chicago Commons gatherings, brochures and information about the camps run by the Commons, and other materials. Some publications are in other languages (Greek, Hungarian, Armenian, Italian, Polish, and Russian) to better serve the settlement house's residents and neighbors. There are also several reports on activities and purpose of the Commons, and history of the Commons. The collection includes four scrapbooks, compilers unknown. The scrapbooks have been digitized or microfilmed.