Old pictures of Township of Elkhart

1905

General view of St. John's Church from the northeast

1920

Cartier Field in 1920

1942

Cole Brothers Circus

1861

Civil War Era Beauty

c. 1909

Open-air summer cars

1955

James Dean Playing With His Nephew

c. 1910

Railroad Depot

1927

TOBOGGAN

1941

Farmers drinking beer during a hard day’s work

1880

The Eaton School

1944

Maxwell Street vendor

1931

The Queue for Gangster Al Capone's Free Dining Room

1951

An assembly line at Zenith Electronics

1931

Unemployed People in Front of Al Capone's Free Cafeteria

1959

North Shore Line

1893

The great Krupp building, Columbian Exposition

1918

Michigan Avenue

1893

Ferris Wheel at the World Columbian Exposition

1955

Archer and Halsted

1930

Waiting for the Hockey Match

1931

Gangsters Hiding Their Faces during Al Capone's Trial

1941

Young Chicago Residents

1955

Aerialist Betty Fox Jumps Rope

1893

Chicago's World Fai

1925

Confiscated liqour at the federal warehouse

c. 1901

Halsted Street Vertical Lift Bridge

c. 1880

Cabinet card of “musical” cat

1929

St. Valentine’s Day massacre

1922

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

1931

Kitchen opened by Al Capone.

1941

Al Capone and his lawyer

1942

Illinois Central railyard

1937

Chicago Car Park

1934

Photographed with the Body of John Dillinger

1890

first electric streetcar

1923

notable Chicagoans associated with the fair met again

1966

Muhammad Alí (Classius Clay)

c. 1930

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

1971

Man on a wild chopper bicycle

1893

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

1919

Man on Porch During Race Riot