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

Union Station

c. 1900

Rush Medical College lecture auditorium

1968

Randolph Street

1905

Childrens bathing beach Lincoln Park

1965

Blue Island Avenue

1959

North Shore Line

1934

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

1936

48 cars in a elevator parking garage in Downtown business district, USA. Built by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company,

1942

Illinois Central railyard

1931

Kitchen opened by Al Capone.

1929

Lawrence Avenue

1893

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

c. 1930

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

1929

Christmas Mail Delivery in Chicago

1855

The oldest photo of Chicago

1933

Schoenhofen Brewery

1893

The Great Wharf, Moving Sidewalk

1905

Market on Maxwell Street

1890

first electric streetcar

1924

Soldier Field

1918

Michigan Avenue

1917

Maxwell Street Market on the Jewish West Side

1922

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

1923

notable Chicagoans associated with the fair met again

1955

Aerialist Betty Fox Jumps Rope

1893

John Bull at the Columbian Exposition

c. 1902

Rush St. Bridge

c. 1958

Clark Street Bridge

1951

An assembly line at Zenith Electronics

1907

Street

1893

The great Krupp building, Columbian Exposition

1931

Unemployed People in Front of Al Capone's Free Cafeteria

1927

RECREATIONAL BOAT SUNKEN

1907

Untitled photo of Chicago in 1907

1893

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