This is a series of images collected to exemplify the changes that have occured
in the Near West Side, Little Italy. We hope to offer modern viewers
a brief but, in my oppinion, rich story of the people and things that frame
daily lives.
Although many of the people have gone either "somewhere" else,
have passed on or mingled their way into another society these images can
represent the way "things" were through a variety of subtle gestures.
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Not the Near West Side, but you are looking toward it. A western view
of Downtown Chicago as seen along the Chicago river...
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This is a vendors
truck on Taylor Street circa 1925. Taylor Street runs through the heart
of the Little Italy neighborhood and is where most of the local buisness
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St.Ignatius College Prep, 1076
W. Roosevelt Rd
Founded in 1870 and to the west is Holy Family Catholic Church both are
historic landmarks
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One of of the most notorious people to build their buisness in
Chicago...no explanation necessary.
for more information and photographs of Al
Capone...
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Chicago Stadium, built in 1929 was the largest indoor stadium at that
time. This image shows the Republican National Convention in 1932.
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Maxwell Street was a vibrant open air market begun by Eastern
European Jewish merchants living in the area. Located on Halsted South of
Roosevelt Rd. Buisness on Maxewell Street thrived untill the late 1990s
when the city moved the market and the Universtiy of Illinois at Chicago
bought a large amount of the property. |
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