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View of Chicago from the River.

Looking south from the Prudential Building. Michigan Avenue is on the right, and Lake Shore Drive on the left. Grant Park covers much of the left side of the photo. The classical building in the foreground is the Art Institute of Chicago.

This 1930 photo shows the Market Street terminal in front of the Civic Opera building at Market/Madison. (Market Street later became part of Wacker Drive.)


This station was the original downtown terminal of the Lake Street 'L' before the Loop…

A crowded street full of vendors at the Maxwell Street Market

A view of Maxwell and Halsted Streets during the Maxwell Street Market opening.

Typewritten schedule for Chicago's first Gay Pride Week running June 19-28, 1970, sponsored by Chicago Gay Liberation. Activities on schedule include dances, workshops, study groups, dinners, musical performances, camping, and rallies.

Map featuring color codes representing distribution of different ethnicities within the neighborhoods bounded by Polk St. and 12th St. in the Near West Side of Chicago.

16mm color amateur film featuring footage of Chicago with deadpan commentary. Originally produced to encourage attendance for the 1963 Photographic Society of America conference in Chicago.

Acrylic painting of woman with red hair in a yellow shirt on jagged Plexiglas in frame painted by the artist.

Black and white photograph of poetry study group members around a table with books, taken in 1942 at the South Side Community Art Center.