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October 28th, 2005, 04:57 PM
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This thread is excellent. A clone of this should be posted in the cityscapes and skyline section.
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October 29th, 2005, 02:50 AM
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Licence to kill.
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This one is known to be in New York, not Chicago. I've seen it before.
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October 29th, 2005, 05:36 AM
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October 29th, 2005, 06:03 AM
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October 30th, 2005, 01:22 AM
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Can we get a sticky on this?
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October 30th, 2005, 01:41 AM
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Awesome pictures. 
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October 30th, 2005, 02:32 AM
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Eastland Disaster
   
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October 30th, 2005, 02:56 AM
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"Chicago, Looking North from State and Washington Streets." Lithograph from Pictorial History of Chicago (Chicago, 1930)
 "Great Railway Station at Chicago-Departure of a Train." Platform crowded with departing passengers, including several Indians. Engraving, ca. 1880  The maze of livestock pens and walkways at Chicago's stockyards, ca. 1947 
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October 30th, 2005, 03:00 AM
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Policeman directing downtown Chicago traffic, ca. 1917
 Women shoppers at Mrs. Snyder's Candy Shop, South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 1927  Five steam locomotives, side by side, outbound from Chicago at dusk, ca. 1940  The wreckage of Chicago's Federal Building after the explosion of a bomb allegedly planted by the International Workers of the World (lWW) as a reprisal for the sentencing of the union's leader, "Big Bill" Haywood, and 94 other members for seditious activities, 1918 
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October 30th, 2005, 03:06 AM
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Crowd of bathers on the Lake Michigan beach, Chicago, Ill., ca. 1925
 Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone. The storefront sign reads "Free Soup, Coffee and Doughnuts for the Unemployed." February 1931 
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October 30th, 2005, 03:26 AM
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October 30th, 2005, 04:35 AM
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From 1916
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October 30th, 2005, 04:55 AM
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Boss
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October 30th, 2005, 07:14 AM
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1930's
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October 30th, 2005, 07:15 AM
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The old Riviera theatre in Rogers Park.
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October 31st, 2005, 04:23 AM
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October 31st, 2005, 04:34 AM
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Then and Now:
Sep. 14, 1948. 505- 507 N. Clark St.  Today  Mar. 1, 1949. Food and drink Store at 1000 Maxwell St.  Today  Feb. 17, 1949. Emmett's grocery and meat market - 14th & Sangamon.  Today  Wow. I wish all this urbanness had been preserved! |
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October 31st, 2005, 04:44 AM
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Me too. What they did to those parts of the South side makes me want to puke.
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October 31st, 2005, 04:53 AM
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for the Pelasgians, too, were a Greek nation originally from the Peloponnesus The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius of Halicarnassus http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/...assus/1B*.html Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece". Strabo, VII, Frg. 9 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/...ragments*.html But north of the gulf, the first inhabitants are Greeks called Epirotes.... Procopius http://books.google.com/books?id=9m6...page&q&f=false |
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October 31st, 2005, 04:54 AM
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May 26, 1963
 Today  May 1966  Today  Feb. 23, 1941  Today  So, it looks like the city centre is the only part of Chicago that has actually benefited from the last half century. Last edited by UrbanSophist; October 31st, 2005 at 05:06 AM. |
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