Old pictures of Township of Oak Park

1899

ERNEST HEMINGWAY 5 MONTHS

1918

Ed Peters and wife Minnie

1943

Santa Fe freight about to leave

1943

Union Station

1965

Blue Island Avenue

c. 1895

The Tugboat Binghampton passes the Adams Street swing bridge

1919

Man on Porch During Race Riot

1910

Andrew Carnegie with his wife Louise Whitfield Carnegie and their daughter

1902

Montgomery Ward & Co. building

1937

A crowd in the Loop

1911

Grant Park, south from Art Institute

1905

Chicago American Giants

c. 1902

Rush St. Bridge

c. 1903

Lincoln Monument

1893

Ferris Wheel at the World Columbian Exposition

c. 1923

Women eating hot dogs

1855

The oldest photo of Chicago

1929

SNOW PLAYING

1907

Street

1955

Aerialist Betty Fox Jumps Rope

1920

Oscar 'Happy' Felsch

1893

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

1905

Market on Maxwell Street

1924

Soldier Field

1943

Union Station

1893

An exhibit hall interior of the World Columbian Exhibit

1931

The Queue for Gangster Al Capone's Free Dining Room

1974

Sears Tower

1955

Maria Callas

1893

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

1893

The great Krupp building, Columbian Exposition

1941

The band at the Savoy Ballroom

1942

Illinois Central railyard

1968

Randolph Street

1890

first electric streetcar

1964

Coffee break on the job

1975

Rabbit strike at the Playboy nightclub

1948

Michigan Avenue

1971

Man on a wild chopper bicycle

1893

The Great Wharf, Moving Sidewalk

1951

An assembly line at Zenith Electronics