Old pictures of Des Plaines

1940

The First Mac Donald's

1964

Shelves with lost umbrellas

1918

Ed Peters and wife Minnie

1899

ERNEST HEMINGWAY 5 MONTHS

1943

Union Station

1943

Santa Fe freight about to leave

1937

Jackson Boulevard ,Market Street ,Wacker Drive

1893

An exhibit hall interior of the World Columbian Exhibit

1964

Coffee break on the job

1926

Maxwell Street

1929

St. Valentine’s Day massacre

1903

Boston Store

1893

The Great Wharf, Moving Sidewalk

1955

Aerialist Betty Fox Jumps Rope

1941

A group of children

c. 1901

Halsted Street Vertical Lift Bridge

1925

Confiscated liqour at the federal warehouse

1967

Chicago Art Institute

c. 1958

Clark Street Bridge

1955

Maria Callas

1943

Union Station

1965

Blue Island Avenue

1893

Chicago Mayor Carter Harrison Sr. delivers a speech to crowd during "American Cities Day"

1922

A woman shows off a cane containing a flask for alcoholic beverages

1937

Michigan Avenue ,Monroe Street

1966

Muhammad Alí (Classius Clay)

1934

Garegin Nzhdeh with Yeghishe Hakobyan and Y.G. Hovakimyan in Chicago

1872

National Normal Musical Institute

1941

Booth in a tavern

1937

A crowd in the Loop

1893

John Bull at the Columbian Exposition

c. 1902

Rush St. Bridge

1968

Randolph Street

1923

notable Chicagoans associated with the fair met again

1974

Sears Tower

1937

Sheridan Road ,Wilson Avenue

1911

Grant Park, south from Art Institute

1893

World's Columbian Exposition

1941

Al Capone and his lawyer

1893

The great Krupp building, Columbian Exposition

1919

Chicago race riot.