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Chicago Crucifixion (3-9-1945)
Today Chicago was trying to make sense of a bizarre case—the city’s first crucifixion. Early in the morning two men walking on the 1600 block of North Clybourn Avenue heard groans.  They followed the sound to the nearby ‘L’ line. In the shadow of the structure they found Fred Walcher hanging on a cross. An ambulance was […]

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Then and Now, 14th Place-Laflin
1952–14th Place @ Laflin Street, view east 2025–the same location After the Great Fire of 1871, construction boomed in this neighborhood southwest of downtown Chicago. By 1952 the buildings here were showing their age. Down the block, the large building with the tall chimney is Joseph Medill High School. Today Addams-Medill Park occupies much of […]

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Then and Now, Brainard-Brandon
1960–Brainard Avenue @ Brandon Avenue, view southeast 2025–the same location The 1960 photo is from this Northwest Sider’s first trip to the city’s far Southeast Side, as an eighth-grader. The parking lot for the South Shore railroad’s Hegewisch station is on the right. Today I still live northwest, but get out here on a regular […]

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Then and Now, Armitage-Hudson
1947–Armitage Avenue @ Hudson Avenue, view east 2025-the same location We are a short-block west of the six-corner Armitage-Sedgwick-Lincoln intersection. In 1947 people are lined up, waiting to enter the building on the southeast corner of Armitage-Hudson. The police have even blocked off Hudson Avenue. What’s going on? Taller buildings today, more trees, no streetc...

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Trouble in Paradise (2-24-1957)
Everybody was moving to the suburbs.  Families were escaping the headaches of the big, bad city.  And suburban officials were happy to see them coming. More people meant a bigger tax base. Better schools! Better roads! Bigger libraries! More police and firemen! There was one problem—lawsuits. Today it seemed all of suburbia was litigation-happy.  “People […]

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