Old pictures of Elgin

1900

August Scheele in his grocery store

1940

The First Mac Donald's

1964

Shelves with lost umbrellas

1918

Ed Peters and wife Minnie

1899

ERNEST HEMINGWAY 5 MONTHS

1943

Santa Fe freight about to leave

1943

Union Station

1905

Market on Maxwell Street

1893

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

1918

Michigan Avenue

c. 1903

Lincoln Monument

c. 1930

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

1905

Chicago American Giants

1925

Confiscated liqour at the federal warehouse

1934

Photographed with the Body of John Dillinger

1931

The Queue for Gangster Al Capone's Free Dining Room

1945

Brother and sister.

1965

Blue Island Avenue

1907

Street

1890

first electric streetcar

1912

Men constructing Chicago sewers

c. 1902

Rush St. Bridge

1941

A group of children

1929

Lawrence Avenue

1893

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

1920

DAY BEFORE ALCOHOL PROHIBITION

1937

Chicago Car Park

1929

SNOW PLAYING

1919

Chicago race riot.

1971

Man on a wild chopper bicycle

1929

St. Valentine’s Day massacre

1927

RECREATIONAL BOAT SUNKEN

1964

Coffee break on the job

1955

Aerialist Betty Fox Jumps Rope

c. 1923

Women eating hot dogs

1902

Montgomery Ward & Co. building

1943

Union Station

1855

The oldest photo of Chicago

c. 1901

Halsted Street Vertical Lift Bridge

1905

Childrens bathing beach Lincoln Park