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Striking Photos Documented Life of African-Americans in Chicago’s South Side in 1941

March 27, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

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 […]

Striking Black and White Photos of Chicago in 1941

March 25, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

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 […]

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40 Amazing Photos of the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893

March 10, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

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 […]

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Vintage Photos of Girton School For Girls in the 1910s

February 23, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe Girton School for Girls was a boarding and day school for girls located in Winnetka, Illinois from […]

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DOCUMERICA: Snapshots of America in Crisis in the 1970s

February 10, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteBy the late 1960s, the American landscape was ravaged by decades of unchecked land development, blighted by urban […]

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Bike Keeps Family in Stitches, 1939

January 28, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

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 […]

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30 Vintage Postcards Show Chicago’s Restaurants in the 1950s and ’60s

October 11, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

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 […]

Fascinating Vintage Photographs Capture Everyday Life in Tri-Taylor Neighborhood, Chicago in the 1970s

September 25, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

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 […]

20 Photos of Sheffield Garden Walk, Chicago in the Late 1980s

September 15, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

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 […]

Photos of Southern Railway 4501 Visiting Chicago in June 1973

August 26, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

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 […]

35 Amazing Photos Capture Street Scenes of Chicago in the 1950s

August 9, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

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, […]

Beautiful Vintage Kodachrome Photos of Mid-Century Chicago

August 7, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

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 […]

Chicago in the early 1970s Through Amazing Black and White Photos

July 5, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

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 […]

40 Photos Show What Chicago Looked Like in the Mid-1990s

June 1, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

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 […]

Before Becoming an Actor and President, Ronald Reagan Was a Proud Lifeguard

May 27, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteRonald Reagan is the only U.S. President to ever be a movie star before he was President. But […]

President Abraham Lincoln’s Hearse in Springfield, Illinois, in 1865

May 11, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteOn May 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was laid to rest in […]

Amazing Vintage Photos of the Marine Angel Going Through Drawbridges on the Chicago River in 1953

May 10, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

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 […]

April 19, 1928: Charlie Birger Was the Last Man to Be Executed by Public Hanging in Illinois

April 19, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteOn April 19, 1928, Charles “Charlie” Birger was hanged in Benton. He was a notorious bootlegger and gang […]

Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Chicago in 1988

April 13, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

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 […]

Incredible Photos of the 1937 Harrisburg Flood

January 9, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe Ohio River flooded for about three weeks in early 1937, leaving one million people homeless and 385 […]

Street Scenes of Chicago in the 1970s Through Amazing Photos

October 23, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteCharles William (Bill) Brubaker (1926-2002) was a member of the Chicago-based architecture firm Perkins & Will from 1950 […]

Cabinet Card of a Provocative Woman on a Fainting Couch in Chicago, Illinois

July 19, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThis cabinet card features a young smiling woman lying on a fainting couch. The image is quite risque […]

Found Photos Capture Young Women of Chicago in Swimsuits From the late 1940s

May 31, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe bikini was officially invented in 1946 and named after the Bikini Atoll in the south Pacific, where […]

24 Amazing Color Photos Capture Chicago’s Street Scenes During the Blizzard of 1979

May 30, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe Chicago blizzard of 1979 was a major blizzard that affected northern Illinois and northwest Indiana on January […]

50 Color Found Snaps That Show the 1948-1949 Chicago Railroad Fair

March 31, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe Chicago Railroad Fair was an event organized to celebrate and commemorate 100 years of railroad history west […]

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