How well did you find your way around 1949 Chicago?The one obvious clue is the streetcar signed for Route 72, which is the number still used by the CTA for North Avenue. The double-wires overhead is another clue.

Could you find your way around the Chicago of the past?The location of this 1949 photo is within a three-mile radius of State and Madison.

If you're from Chicago, you probably know about the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929, seven men were gunned down at the SMC Cartage garage at 2122 N. Clark Street. Most of the dead men were members of the Bugs Moran bootlegging gang.

February 10th might have been Chicago's day of infamy--the date remembered for the greatest mass murder in our history.The year was 1916. George Mundelein had just arrived in Chicago to take charge of the Catholic archdiocese. At 43 he was young for an archbishop.

Listen to John Schmidt talk about street names on Eight Forty-Eight Every so often, you'll hear a visitor to our city ask for directions to Madison Avenue. This will make a true Chicagoan's blood boil.

The announcement appeared on the entertainment page of the Tribune, just below the ad for the Four Marx Brothers. Emile Coue would be presenting a lecture at Orchestra Hall on February 6, 1923. The Miracle Man was coming to Chicago!Coue was a 65-year-old French pharmacist.

How well did you find your way around 1944 Chicago?Most of the buildings in the picture have been demolished to make way for the UIC campus. But there are some clues.We have a wide street here, and there are only a few like this within a three-mile radius of State and Madison.