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Elevated track and train, looking east on Van Buren Street from Wabash Avenue, in 1897 Chicago. Printed by the Chicago Tribune.

A steam power engine pulls the elevated train at the Lake Street "L", circa 1893-1896. Printed in the Chicago Tribune.

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.

Two nuns at a desk dissecting an unknown animal at DePaul University

Postcard showing tourists on a bridge in the Japanese Garden in Jackson Park, Chicago IL

Styx's seventh album released in 1977 featuring the single "Come Sail Away"

“In our 'cities within cities' we shall turn our streets up into the air, and stack the daytime and nighttime use of our land." —Bertrand Goldberg

Marina City was built in 1967. Its architect Bertrand Goldberg intended it to be an urban experiment…