Want more? Sign up here to stay in the know. The west side of the street still has plenty of retail options, but the old Walgreen Drugs has since been replaced with Elly’s Pancake House. In the twelve-part series, Reporters Mooney and Bird described the worst of 82 squalid saloons in three-quarters of a Madison Street mile (most of them selling the morning special, a double shot of whisky for 18¢), listed the names & addresses of saloonkeepers who were breaking. Located at the border of Old Town and the Gold Coast, this intersection sits at the southern tip of Lincoln Park-home to the Chicago History Museum, Lincoln Park Zoo, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and the Lincoln Park Conservatory. Bill Mooney and Fred Bird spent two weeks on Skid Row. Trains and buses replaced surface lines, and an explosion in automobile production helped turn this North Side crossing, as well as countless others, into a place you'd be smart to avoid during rush hour. The Chicago Transit Authority bought Chicago Surface Lines in 1947, signaling an end to the city's streetcar system. Tied to tracks and powered by overhead wires, this streetcar line ran along Clark between West Cermak Road and Howard Street-a 12-mile trip that took riders through the Loop and past a portion of Lincoln Park. This photo shows these relics of the city’s mass-transit past, in front of the Chicago Historical Society (now the Chicago History Museum). With more than 500 miles of rails and almost 100 routes by 1935, Chicago’s streetcar system was one of the largest in the world and the main mode of transportation for residents of the Windy City. Thanks to streetcars, the intersection of North Clark Street and West North Avenue (along with plenty of other streets in 1930s Chicago) had relatively light traffic in 1937. It’s strange to see one of the city’s busiest intersections not packed with cars. Vote your favorites and don’t forget to share.Photograph: Courtesy UIC University Library Special Collections These photographs were captured by Charles William Brubaker, who was a member of the Chicago-based architecture firm Perkins & Will from 1950 until 1998. Here below are some stunning photos that show what Chicago looked like in the 1970s. Many streets in Chicago in the 1970s, particularly under viaducts and bridges, still showed streetcar tracks that had never been paved over after the last streetcars ran in 1958. Wikipedia/Unknown The place is packed because Chicagoans have always loved their Hawks The stadium closed in 1994 and the team now plays at the United Center. The Chicago Transit Authority ran old and noisy buses that spewed huge clouds of black smoke from their exhaust pipes each time they started moving. This image of the interior of the Chicago Stadium was taken in 1930 just before a Blackhawks game, one year after the arena opened. By the late ’70s, the city was beginning to develop its reputation for festivals, starting with ChicagoFest, it changed how people felt about the Pier. Poor neighborhoods were being replaced with massive public housing that solved a few of the problems of poverty and violence. There were many homeless people living on the streets and the crime rates were also high. Downtown was a bit quieter and the density of buildings on the Near North Side, especially around River North, was far lower. Chicago was thriving and developing in the 1970s.
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