Chicago Early 1900's

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PHOTO – CHICAGO – CLARK STREET – SOUTH OF RANDOLPH – HORSE-DRAWN STREETCARS – 1888
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Fountain of the Great Lakes by Lorado Taft (circa 1910)
Fountain of the Great Lakes by Lorado Taft (circa 1910) by ihynz7, via Flickr
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Frank Lloyd Wright had bought tickets for a matinee performance of Mr. Blue Beard Jr., a Christmas play for children at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago. His sons Lloyd, aged thirteen, and John, aged eleven, were allowed to attend in the company of their grandmother. They sat in the third row center, but that particular matinee every one of the 1,800 seats was filled, mostly with parents and children. When a calcium light on a six-foot stand on the stage exploded, flames and sparks and burning dr
Incredible pictures of Chicago's abandoned freight tunnels
Mysterious: This three-way intersection at Congress and Franklin Streets in Chicago in 1902 looks empty and eerie
Legendary Department Stores That Have Closed Their Doors
18 Department Stores We Miss - Montgomery Ward, Marshall Fields, Barneys & More | Cheapism.com
Chicago’s greatest remaining Gilded Age mansions
Chicago's Gilded Age past might seem a distant memory (and the lost mansions we profiled last month make the glitter seem distant indeed), but not all of the edifices constructed by the well-heeled...
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL (ORIGINAL BUILDING) – E HYDE PARK BLVD AND THE LAKE – GROUND LEVEL LOOKING E TOWARDS LAKE – BUILT IN 1892 FOR COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION WORLD’S FAIR 1893 – c1900
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – WRIGLEY BUILDING – FROM THE NORTH – NOTE STREET LIGHTS – 1920s
POSTCARD – CHICAGO – WRIGLEY BUILDING – FROM THE NORTH – NOTE STREET LIGHTS – 1920s