Chicago’s old Halsted Street Lift Bridge was the first modern vertical lift bridge in the world.

This one threw me for a loop, since I always assumed venerable Chicago tavern Miller’s Pub had been here forever.

Szt. István beaming down beatifically at the building, a rare Hungarian-language Chicago church, and an unusual Protestant-to-Catholic church conversion.

The rise of Black insurers like the Chicago Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company embodied “making a way out of no way”. Having made their way, CMMAC opened their new Bronzeville headquarters here in 1940, with a unique asset for the community on the second floor–the Parkway Ballroom.