Old pictures of Des Plaines

1940

The First Mac Donald's

1893

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

1937

Michigan Avenue ,Monroe Street

1893

World's Columbian Exposition

1944

Maxwell Street vendor

1920

DAY BEFORE ALCOHOL PROHIBITION

1943

Union Station train concourse

1960

Children in Chicago

1893

Mammoth and Giant Octopus, display at the Columbian World's Fair

1955

Maria Callas

c. 1958

Clark Street Bridge

1930

The Last Four Couples Who Survived the Chicago Dance Band

1917

Maxwell Street Market on the Jewish West Side

c. 1900

Rush Medical College lecture auditorium

c. 1923

Women eating hot dogs

1929

SNOW PLAYING

1931

The Queue for Gangster Al Capone's Free Dining Room

1945

Brother and sister.

1902

Montgomery Ward & Co. building

1907

Untitled photo of Chicago in 1907

1919

Man on Porch During Race Riot

1964

Coffee break on the job

1893

The great Krupp building, Columbian Exposition

1855

The oldest photo of Chicago

1893

Chicago's World Fai

1920

Oscar 'Happy' Felsch

1930

Waiting for the Hockey Match

c. 1903

Lincoln Monument

c. 1930

re-enactment of the St. Valentine’s Day massacre

1910

Andrew Carnegie with his wife Louise Whitfield Carnegie and their daughter

1965

Blue Island Avenue

1975

Rabbit strike at the Playboy nightclub

1893

The Great Wharf, Moving Sidewalk

1919

Chicago race riot.

1907

Street

1959

North Shore Line

1922

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

1929

St. Valentine’s Day massacre

1951

An assembly line at Zenith Electronics

1905

Market on Maxwell Street