Old pictures of Elgin

1900

August Scheele in his grocery store

1940

The First Mac Donald's

1964

Shelves with lost umbrellas

1899

ERNEST HEMINGWAY 5 MONTHS

1943

Santa Fe freight about to leave

1943

Union Station

1893

The great Krupp building, Columbian Exposition

1955

Maria Callas

1941

The band at the Savoy Ballroom

c. 1958

Clark Street Bridge

1960

Children in Chicago

1855

The oldest photo of Chicago

1893

John Bull at the Columbian Exposition

1967

Chicago Art Institute

1911

Grant Park, south from Art Institute

c. 1900

Rush Medical College lecture auditorium

c. 1902

Rush St. Bridge

1958

14th Street ,Michigan Avenue

1943

Union Station train concourse

1937

Sheridan Road ,Wilson Avenue

1927

RECREATIONAL BOAT SUNKEN

1893

World's Columbian Exposition

1929

Lawrence Avenue

1968

Randolph Street

1925

Confiscated liqour at the federal warehouse

c. 1880

Cabinet card of “musical” cat

1951

An assembly line at Zenith Electronics

1931

Kitchen opened by Al Capone.

1974

Sears Tower

1919

Chicago race riot.

1912

Men constructing Chicago sewers

c. 1901

Halsted Street Vertical Lift Bridge

1910

Andrew Carnegie with his wife Louise Whitfield Carnegie and their daughter

1943

Model airplanes

1945

Albert H. Luke

1955

Archer and Halsted

c. 1895

The Tugboat Binghampton passes the Adams Street swing bridge

1941

Booth in a tavern

1955

Aerialist Betty Fox Jumps Rope

1929

St. Valentine’s Day massacre