#old chicago
Martin Luther King, Jr. showboating in a pool match with local civil rights leader Al Raby. Chicago, 1966.
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Looking south on State from Randolph, Christmas 1968, Chicago.
Black Jesus is playing at the Roosevelt, 110 N. State.
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Chicago Coliseum, October 30, 1927, Chicago
Original caption:
One of the greatest attractions at the National Radio Show, held at the Coliseum this week will be Saturday night when Bernays Johnson sits in the death chair for the second time in his life. There will be three times as much electrical current passed through his body as is required to run an ordinary street car. Photo shows left to right, Officer William McCullough, Bernays Johnson in chair, and Adolph Girsch, testing the switch
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Un Ballon Foudroyé a Chicago, (A balloon is struck (by lightning) in Chicago).
French newspaper cartoon, 1891.
This reminds me of Chicago native and Frances Parker alum, Edward Gorey’s drawings.
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Stebbins Hardware, 15 W Van Buren, 1972, Chicago.
Harold Washington Library stands here now.
Found an interesting article from the Sunday Trib, June 22, 1919 that mentions Stebbins: Girls Get Day to Shop!
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Old St. Pat’s, NW corner of Adams and Des Plaines, 1861, Chicago
One of Chicago’s oldest buildings, construction on Old St. Pat’s began in 1853 and was then dedicated in 1857. The Great Fire of 1871 missed the church by two blocks.
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Sunday market on Jefferson Street (@Maxwell) in the Jewish ghetto, 1905, Chicago
In the first photo, Jefferson looks impassable to street traffic.
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Chicagoans rummage through what remains of their city, October 1871, Chicago. The fire burned October 8th through the 10th, 1871.
As I’ve mentioned in the past, my favorite post-fire photos are those with people in them. I can only imagine what they were faced with - though, history tells us they wasted no-time rebuilding the city; almost immediately after the last ember went out.
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Chicago & North Western Clinton Street interlocking
Chicago
August 11, 1976
Photo by Mike Abalos
The recently demolished Cassidy Tire building is in the background.
“On March 29, 1943, the first official Chicago Rapid Transit Company train heads into the north portal of the new State Street Subway, then still under construction. Only one track was in service, and the south portal was still being built. Test rides were being given to servicemen and war bond buyers. The official opening was on October 17th.”
“New York Central loco 5287, a 4-6-4, heads south at Roosevelt Road on August 24, 1954.”
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Photo by David R. Sweetland
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FromClassic Trains:
On Chicago’s L:
A four-car Chicago Aurora & Elgin train heads away from the Loop as a Chicago Rapid Transit train heads inbound. Below the train are the south platforms of Chicago Union Station.
Photo by Don Sims
Chicago Coliseum was the name applied to three large indoor arenas in Chicago, Illinois, which stood successively from the 1860s to 1982; they served as venues for sports events, large (national-class) conventions and as exhibition halls. The first Coliseum stood at State and Washington streets in Chicago’s downtown in the late 1860s. The second, at 63rd Street near Stony Island Avenue in the south side’s Woodlawn community, hosted the 1896 Democratic National Convention. The third Chicago Coliseum was located at 1513 South Wabash Avenue on the near south side; it hosted five consecutive Republican National Conventions, (1904, 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920) and the Progressive Party National Convention in 1912 and 1916. It also hosted the Lincoln Jubilee in 1915.
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