Old pictures of Township of Portage

1920

Cartier Field in 1920

1942

Cole Brothers Circus

1905

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

1927

TOBOGGAN

c. 1902

Rush St. Bridge

1929

Lawrence Avenue

1893

Ferris Wheel at the World Columbian Exposition

1893

John Bull at the Columbian Exposition

1905

Chicago American Giants

1926

Maxwell Street

1893

An exhibit hall interior of the World Columbian Exhibit

1893

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

1937

Michigan Avenue ,Monroe Street

1903

Boston Store

1941

Young Chicago Residents

1893

The Great Wharf, Moving Sidewalk

1955

Aerialist Betty Fox Jumps Rope

1959

North Shore Line

1919

Man on Porch During Race Riot

1923

notable Chicagoans associated with the fair met again

1968

Randolph Street

1931

Gangsters Hiding Their Faces during Al Capone's Trial

1907

Untitled photo of Chicago in 1907

1934

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

1890

first electric streetcar

1936

Chicago Car Park

1943

Union Station train concourse

1943

Union Station

1920

DAY BEFORE ALCOHOL PROHIBITION

1930

The Last Four Couples Who Survived the Chicago Dance Band

c. 1930

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

1925

Confiscated liqour at the federal warehouse

1917

Maxwell Street Market on the Jewish West Side

1907

Street

1924

Soldier Field

1893

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

1922

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

1975

Rabbit strike at the Playboy nightclub

1955

Maria Callas

1929

Christmas Mail Delivery in Chicago

1965

Blue Island Avenue