Old pictures of Stevens Hill

c. 1940

A marching band in downtown

c. 1939

Downtown

1902

Logging camp

1940

The First Mac Donald's

1910

Main St.

1959

Invention of the modern seat belt

c. 1901

Horse-drawn wagons, including a water wagon

1931

Village of RadissoN

1900

August Scheele in his grocery store

1880

The Eaton School

1901

Moonshine

1911

MAIN ST.

1918

Ed Peters and wife Minnie

c. 1879

Water street, before the fire of the 1880

c. 1936

FERRY

1943

Union Station

1973

Nixon and Brezhnev

1899

ERNEST HEMINGWAY 5 MONTHS

1855

The oldest photo of Chicago

1944

Maxwell Street vendor

1955

Aerialist Betty Fox Jumps Rope

1931

The Queue for Gangster Al Capone's Free Dining Room

1893

The great Krupp building, Columbian Exposition

1937

Michigan Avenue ,Monroe Street

1965

Blue Island Avenue

1968

Randolph Street

1931

Gangsters Hiding Their Faces during Al Capone's Trial

1893

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

1955

Maria Callas

1907

Untitled photo of Chicago in 1907

1893

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

1893

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

1893

John Bull at the Columbian Exposition

1926

Maxwell Street

1951

An assembly line at Zenith Electronics

1943

Model airplanes

c. 1900

Rush Medical College lecture auditorium

1918

Michigan Avenue

1907

Street

1923

notable Chicagoans associated with the fair met again