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

1893

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

1955

Archer and Halsted

1893

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

1919

Man on Porch During Race Riot

1919

Chicago race riot.

1902

Montgomery Ward & Co. building

1937

Jackson Boulevard ,Market Street ,Wacker Drive

1893

John Bull at the Columbian Exposition

1965

Blue Island Avenue

1959

North Shore Line

1893

An exhibit hall interior of the World Columbian Exhibit

1960

Children in Chicago

1890

first electric streetcar

1934

Photographed with the Body of John Dillinger

1927

RECREATIONAL BOAT SUNKEN

c. 1930

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

1930

Waiting for the Hockey Match

1926

Maxwell Street

1893

The Great Wharf, Moving Sidewalk

1893

Ferris Wheel at the World Columbian Exposition

1933

Schoenhofen Brewery

1951

An assembly line at Zenith Electronics

1929

Christmas Mail Delivery in Chicago

1930

The Last Four Couples Who Survived the Chicago Dance Band

1924

Soldier Field

1966

Muhammad Alí (Classius Clay)

1923

notable Chicagoans associated with the fair met again

1907

Untitled photo of Chicago in 1907

1922

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

1941

Young Chicago Residents

1893

The great Krupp building, Columbian Exposition

1943

Union Station train concourse

1918

Michigan Avenue

1931

The Queue for Gangster Al Capone's Free Dining Room

1929

Lawrence Avenue