Halsted Street Lift Bridge, Chicago
Chicago’s old Halsted Street Lift Bridge was the first modern vertical lift bridge in the world.
From the archive
Posts that have previously appeared on the Instagram account.
Lander's Restaurant / Miller's Pub, Chicago
This one threw me for a loop, since I always assumed venerable Chicago tavern Miller’s Pub had been here forever.
St. Stephen King of Hungary Catholic Church, Chicago
Szt. István beaming down beatifically at the building, a rare Hungarian-language Chicago church, and an unusual Protestant-to-Catholic church conversion.
Chicago Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Co. and the Parkway Ballroom
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.
A Few Business House of Apple River, Illinois
Pretty shocked that some of these buildings were 1) still standing, and 2) that I could find them...but there are only so many buildings in a town of 366.