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

1910

United Garment Workers Strike

1955

Aerialist Betty Fox Jumps Rope

1905

Childrens bathing beach Lincoln Park

1893

The great Krupp building, Columbian Exposition

1929

SNOW PLAYING

c. 1930

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

1929

St. Valentine’s Day massacre

1907

Street

1937

Michigan Avenue ,Monroe Street

1937

Jackson Boulevard ,Market Street ,Wacker Drive

c. 1958

Clark Street Bridge

1943

Union Station

1922

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

1931

Unemployed People in Front of Al Capone's Free Cafeteria

1893

Viking, replica of the Gokstad Viking ship, at the World Fair

1934

Photographed with the Body of John Dillinger

1931

The Queue for Gangster Al Capone's Free Dining Room

1890

first electric streetcar

1931

Kitchen opened by Al Capone.

1955

Maria Callas

1964

Coffee break on the job

1944

Maxwell Street vendor

1933

Schoenhofen Brewery

1855

The oldest photo of Chicago

1941

Al Capone and his lawyer

1920

DAY BEFORE ALCOHOL PROHIBITION

1929

Lawrence Avenue

1918

Michigan Avenue

1955

Archer and Halsted

1951

An assembly line at Zenith Electronics

1905

Market on Maxwell Street

1917

Maxwell Street Market on the Jewish West Side

1942

Illinois Central railyard

1971

Man on a wild chopper bicycle

1911

Grant Park, south from Art Institute

c. 1895

The Tugboat Binghampton passes the Adams Street swing bridge