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 siteThe Girton School for Girls was a boarding and day school for girls located in Winnetka, Illinois from […]
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 […]
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 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 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 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 siteRonald Reagan is the only U.S. President to ever be a movie star before he was President. But […]
This post was originally published on this siteOn May 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was laid to rest in […]
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 siteOn April 19, 1928, Charles “Charlie” Birger was hanged in Benton. He was a notorious bootlegger and gang […]
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 siteThe Ohio River flooded for about three weeks in early 1937, leaving one million people homeless and 385 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Copyright © 2022 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes