Take a walk down these gorgeous streets & enjoy the amazing homes. Great trick or treating here!
Great trick or treat here
Stayed here for a week in an Airbnb, loved the neighborhood
During the cold winter in Chicago is the beat place to spend some hours enjoying sales in good shops and great taste and fresh meal in a large list of restaurants
Built in the late 1860s, these two structures, designed by William Boyington, were among the few buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
This landmark is just steps away from Loyola's Water Tower Campus on Pearson Street.
The blues are the roots of all American music.
The building now houses the Blues Heaven Foundation, begun by blues legend Willie Dixon to promote blues history and support working musicians. Stop in for a tour to experience the history yourself. Read more.
One of the most important sites in blues history, nearly every blues great passed through here when it was home to Chess Records. The building now houses the Blues Heaven Foundation. Read more.
In the 1920’s, this is where you’d come strut your stuff as music poured from nightclubs. The Meyers Ace Hardware store used to be the Sunset Café, a legendary jazz club where Louis Armstrong played. Read more.
The hardware store at the corner used to be the Sunset Café, a legendary jazz club where Louis Armstrong and others played. Look inside at the historic clippings in front, and the mural in back. Read more.
In the 1920's and '30s, this is where you’d come strut your stuff as music poured from the theaters, cabarets and nightclubs, like the Pekin Theater where the top blues singers of the day performed. Read more.
Situated on this stretch of the former ‘record row,’ Vee-Jay Records was the largest, most successful R&B label of its time, and recorded blues greats like Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker and others. Read more.
Situated on this stretch of the former 'record row,' Vee-Jay Records was the largest, most successful R&B label of its time, and recorded blues greats like Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker and others. Read more.
Vee-Jay distributed early Beatles material ("Please Please Me" "From Me to You" "Do You Want to Know a Secret?""Thank You Girl" "Love Me Do" "P.S. I Love You" "Twist and Shout" "There's A Place" )
The Millennium Monument is a nearly full-sized replica of the semicircle of paired Greek Doric-style columns (called a peristyle) that originally sat in this area of Grant Park, between 1917 and 1953.
The primary attraction in Wrigley Square.
Great place for the family to enjoy
It has been home to St. Augustine College (SAC) since 1980. Visitors are welcome! You can request to enter the original studio called the Charlie Chaplin Auditorium. Free :)
Talkies ended it all.
The clock is usually accurate!
Stay hydrated people! Its going to be a hot summer
The interior of Nate's Deli (now closed), was replicated on a Hollywood Set for Aretha Franklin's scenes in "The Blues Brothers" (1980). Read more.
Today, the Maxwell Street Market, which still happens every Sunday, has moved to Desplaines St. & Roosevelt Rd. Read more.
Maxwell Street was once home to a bustling street market, and a place to hear many of the first great blues musicians, new arrivals from the South who would set up at a street corner and jam. Read more.
Chess Records was known for its regular band of session musicians who played on most of the company's Chicago soul recordings.
Demo tapes were cleverly tested here at the original Chess Records offices by blaring music outdoors to folks waiting for the bus at the corner and seeing if they started grooving to the beat. Read more.
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Two granite blocks mark the former spot of the Illinois Central Depot, or the Black Ellis Island, where 1000s of southern African Americans arrived to start new lives in Chicago - the Promised Land. Read more.
2 granite blocks mark the former spot of the Illinois Central Depot, or the Black Ellis Island, where thousands of southern African Americans arrived to start new lives in Chicago - the Promised Land. Read more.
Sit for a moment in this beautiful park and contemplate what once was here.
[J.R. Roberts, 1870] Designed in the Victorian Chateauesque style - which combines classical & French motifs - the house has been lovingly restored with historica accuracy.
Great event venue for business meetings, corporate receptions, parties, showers and small weddings.
Get a feel for what it was like to step up to the plate at Old Comiskey Park. Know that legends once had at bats where you are now standing.
I have been coming here ever since I can remember. I have mixed feelings about this branch though, the 2nd floor is the best. Lots have great audiobooks downstairs as well.
The architecture is especially charming!
I'm not sure why another tipster said kids aren't welcome here. My children have been coming here for ten years and have always been welcomed. The staff is hit-or-miss but generally helpful.
Lovingly made in NYC, CHI, SEA & LA