Can you guess the mystery North Side location in this 1961 photo? Many of the buildings are still there today, though the names of the businesses have changed.
Going through some old slides recently, I ran across this picture. It is not a photo-shopped joke. Once upon a time, the City of Chicago really did nail a couple of street signs into a tree.
What can a bronze rectangle tell us about mayors like Jane Byrne, Bill Thompson and Anton Cermak? Historian John Schmidt reads plaques and he's not afraid to admit it.
On August 27, 1922 Francis S. Peabody suffered a heart attack and died. Though nobody realized it at the time, he had just taken the first step to becoming a Chicago legend.
St. Basil’s was built in the Byzantine style, along the lines of the famous Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Granite columns rose from steps on the portico and the interior contained frescoes and mosaics in bright colors.
At one time there were more than a dozen drive-in movie theatres around Chicago. Most were in the suburbs, but there was one in the city itself, on Columbus Avenue on the Southwest Side.
