Maxwell Street Market Vendor with t-shirt
Vendor from Belize selling t-shirts and sundries in 1994 near Jim’s Original hot dog stand, with Nate’s Deli sign in background (Credit: Steven Balkin, 1994) Preservationists soon realized that appeals...
View ArticleShopper with dress, Nate’s Deli in background, 1981, Photo by Sheila Malkind
Shopper with a dress at the Maxwell Street Market, with Nate’s Deli at 807 W. Maxwell Street in the background, 1981. Photo by Sheila Malkind, Founder & ED, Legacy Film Festival on Aging,...
View ArticleCheat You Fair Custom Printed T-Shirts, 1981
“Cheat You Fair Wholesale & Retail Custom Printed T-Shirts” at 1327-1333 S. Halsted, at the southeast corner of Maxwell and Halsted, at the epicenter of the Maxwell Street Market in Chicago. The...
View ArticleJim’s Original: Birthplace of the Maxwell Street Polish Sausage
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View ArticleZoot Suits and the Forgotten American Dream
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View ArticleSt. Francis of Assisi: Saved from the Wrecking Ball
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View ArticleSigns of Maxwell Street: Ellis Island of Chicago
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View ArticleHal Fox: Chicago’s Jazz Entrepreneur
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View ArticleDemolition of Nate’s Deli
In the 1990s, the University of Illinois at Chicago began to buy up land in the area, tacitly using the threat of future powers of eminent domain to let building and business owners know that they...
View ArticleArthur Goldberg, Supreme Court Justice, as a child in the Maxwell Street...
Arthur Goldberg (1908-1990), Secretary of Labor for President Kennedy and Supreme Court Justice appointed by President Kennedy (1962-65), is shown here on the stoop of his early Maxwell Street...
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