This post was originally published on this siteThe Great Migrations from 1910 to 1960 brought millions of African-Americans from the rural South to Chicago, where […]
This post was originally published on this siteIn the depths of the Great Depression, the United States government created the Resettlement Administration to help provide […]
This post was originally published on this siteThe World’s Columbian Exposition was a world’s fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary […]
This post was originally published on this siteBetween 1975 and 1977, sometimes five nights a week, photographer Michael Abramson traveled from his northern Chicago suburb […]
This post was originally published on this siteCarrying four persons and a sewing machine, the world’s weirdest bicycle had a tryout in Chicago, Illinois, in […]
This post was originally published on this siteThese vintage photographs show the airship Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 flying over Chicago in August 1929, on the […]
This post was originally published on this siteOn the evening of October 8, 1871, more than 300,000 weary residents of the great city of Chicago […]
This post was originally published on this siteA collapsible bicycle trailer which can be converted into comfortable sleeping quarters has been built by Joseph Dorocke, […]
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1942 and 1943, the Farm Security Administration photographer Jack Delano spent time in the rail yards of […]
This post was originally published on this siteNovember 7, 1929 — Joan LaCosta, prominent woman auto racer, was held by police in Chicago, Illinois for […]
This post was originally published on this siteWhen American servicemen returned home from World War II, they brought with them stories and souvenirs from the […]
This post was originally published on this siteThese photographs were taken by Lou Fourcher, a University of Chicago Ph.D. psychology student, for a project sponsored […]
This post was originally published on this siteThe Garden Walk was a vital part of the promotion of Sheffield as an attractive urban neighborhood. The […]
This post was originally published on this siteThe photos from Marty Bernard were taken from the Roosevelt Road Viaduct and the trains were on the […]
This post was originally published on this siteOn April 15, 1964, two days before the Ford Mustang was officially supposed to go on sale, one […]
This post was originally published on this siteMayor Richard J. Daley, a Democrat, was elected in 1955, in the era of machine politics. In 1956, […]
This post was originally published on this siteThese Kodachrome photographs were taken by Harold Mayer, a pioneer of urban geography and specialist in urban and […]
This post was originally published on this siteLife was good during the late ’60s and early ’70s. Railroad provided employment, church’s influenced a lot of […]
This post was originally published on this siteThe bar was run by Chicago native Parnell St. Aubin, who’d played a Munchkin soldier in The Wizard […]
This post was originally published on this siteIn the 1990s, Chicago transformed itself from a would-be Rust Belt casualty to the global metropolis it is […]
This post was originally published on this siteUsually, people seek answers to questions such as when and where they will magically find true love. These […]
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1953, the 600-foot-long, 70-foot-wide Marine Angel transited the Chicago River. The freighter had only seven inches of […]
This post was originally published on this site“A look at a man plunged into a rugged city in the diversity of his urbanism” is how […]
This post was originally published on this siteCloris Leachman was born on April 30, 1926 in Des Moines, Iowa. She attended Illinois State University and […]
This post was originally published on this siteTo show off Michigan’s forest industry at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, lumberjacks from the Great Lakes State […]
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