“Guide and Directory to Chicago and the Suburbs” – 1932
by John Dunlevy
history
Specific eras: Antiquity, Middle Ages, 16th Century, 17th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century …
Gil Heron, father of Gil Scott-Heron, playing for Celtic in the early 1950s, the first black player to turn out for their first team.
Decades later, fans would turn up to Gil Scott-Heron’s shows wearing Celtic colors, though the poet-singer was estranged from his father until he was 26, due to his move from Chicago to Glasgow to play for Celtic.
This father-and-son tale is illustrated superbly by Steve Welsh (miniboro) in issue one of XI.
I’ve been meaning to get to the Illinois Railway Museum for ages now. This may have been the inspiration I needed to finally get there. In the next couple of weeks?
Every year at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois, volunteers bring out the working condition trains that used to operate on Chicago or Chicagoland tracks: ‘L’ trains, interurbans, and streetcars. This past weekend was “Chicago Day” at IRM. —
Cermak Road Bridge, Chicago 1959
From the University of Illinois at Chicago’s “Chicago – Photographic Images of Change” collection
chicagopast’s post (“via Noah”) links to the Cermak Road Bridge page on historicbridges.org, a site whose webmaster Nathan Holth has an interesting looking book coming out next month on Chicago’s Bridges.
The municipal flag of Chicago with just two stars, one for the Great Chicago Fire, and one for the World’s Columbian Exposition. Two more stars were added later: one in 1933 for the Century of Progress Exposition, and one in 1939 to commemorate Fort Dearborn.
Flying the Flag; Supplement to Chicago Herald and Examiner, October 2, 1921