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Built in 1921 and expanded in 1932, the Chicago Main Post Office was constructed with room underneath for Congress Parkway. At the time of its construction, it was the largest post office in the nation, with the city's massive mail numbers primarily…

Video taken in 1933 of the Paris pavilion at the Century of Progress World's Fair exposition in Chicago

Lake Street, looking west from Wabash Avenue, in 1896 when the "L" was being built. C. H. Cook received $50 dollars for this picture, printed in the Chicago Tribune.

A seminal volume of poetry focusing on the American Midwest.

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It is pictured on display in the hall of Aboriginal Sculpture in the South Court at the Field Columbian Museum, c.1905. Collected by Edward H. Thompson, this stela cast was originally on exhibit in the Anthropological Building of the…

A music video for the song Angels, by Chance the Rapper featuring Saba, from Chance's latest album Coloring Book.

First page of the sheet music for song titled, "The Avenues of Chicago"

Painting shows a large vessel towed by a steam tug, moving under the upraised Franklin-Orleans St. bridge; the southwest corner of the Merchandise Mart ( a commercial building located in the downtown Loop that opened in 1930) on the right. Small…