Look Back, Chicago 🇺🇦
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Look Back, Chicago 🇺🇦
@lookbackchicago
Look Back, Chicago is a history blog about those old Chicago buildings, signs and other structures that still exist around you. Run by @neilarsenty.
- Chicago, 1922. 101 years ago. The tallest building is Wrigley. The Tribune Tower was not yet built. Rush Street had a small bridge behind the Wrigley building that spanned the Chicago River.
- The only known photo of the current Art Institute building under construction, c. 1892. (Look how far the lake came in!)
- Wooden CTA “L” car on the Stock Yards branch. Looking east from the Exchange station. c. 1955-57. (📷 The Trolley Dodger)
- Marshall Field's, Chicago, 1956. (Shared by Midcentury Fashion on Facebook.)
- Cook County Courthouse and City Hall, Randolph and LaSalle. Built in 1885. After it sank 6 inches — causing a gas-line to rupture and blowing the roof off — it was demolished 20 years after completion (1905-08).
- Chicago and Michigan Ave (looking east), c. 1956. Northwestern. Wesley Memorial Hospital. Cinema Theater. Walgreens. Mme. Galli's. (Colorized, unknown.)
- Me watching anything filmed in Chicago and recognizing a filming location.
- Milwaukee Avenue in Wicker Park, 1982. 📷 William C. Brubaker
