A tour bike standing below a tree in front of three French Gothic Revival single family homes are different colored stone.

A previously unposted photo from CBA maps starting People – While

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A People’s History of Chicago (Kevin Koval, 2017)

A tur bike at front of a tan brick two flat with a black and white poster of Fred Hampton in the front yard. panther prints on the sidewalk and free food box near the front door.
The Hampton House in Maywood, IL, 3/1/23 –
“The Assassination of Chairman Fred Hampton” – Fred of Maywood, 21 years old, executed by the state…

Pres Chicago – 7 Most Endangered 2018

A tour bike leaning on a black trash box with the four story round glass atrium of the Thompson Center behind.
 John Thompson Center (Helmut Jahn, 1985) in the Loop, 3/12/20 – Purchased by Google, 2022

Print Chicago

A tour bike standing in front of a three story yellow brick early 20th Century apartment building.
Shel Silverstein teenage home in Logan Square, 1934-, 3/29/18.

Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser, 1900)

A tour bike standing in short green grass park with leaves overhead and a church steeple in the distance.
Union Park, 7/14/20
Carrie’s new beau – Drouett had taken three rooms, furnished, in Ogden Place, facing Union Park, on the West Side.

So Big (Edna Ferber, 1924)

A tour bike standing below a tree in front of three French Gothic Revival single family homes are different colored stone.
1890s homes on Martin Luther King Drive (Grand Boulevard) 4/19/22 –
Our hero Selina explores the city while her son [So Big] is at work, visiting the “Black Belt” and its growing Great Migration population.

Southern Exposure (Lee Bey, 2019)

A tour bike standing in front of a low steep roofed red brick church with two toned red brick patina copper topped tour.
St Gabriel Catholic Church (John Wellborn Root, 1888) in Canaryville, 11/2/18.
One of the 60+ buildings profiled in the Chicago Sun-Times architecture writer’s survey of South Side buildings

The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Sam Greenlee, 1919)

A tour bike leaning on a plastic agriculture tub with urban planting to the left, an open field ahead, and the Willis Tower in the distance.
Urban agriculture at Madison & Francisco in an area affected by the 1968 MLK riots, 11/08/22 –
Dan Freeman talks to his would be recruits – Yeah, I know what you were doing on the West Side in July when they had the riots over there.

Stranger than Fiction (2006)

A movie still of Will Ferrell sitting on the balcony of the space age Brutalist River City

A tour bike standing below a Brutalist space age like 10 story apartment building standing over a marina.
 River City Apartments in the South Loop (Bertrand Goldberg, 1986) 3/30/21 –
After his place is demolished Harold Crick stays with his coworker/friend Dave.

V.I. Warshawski (1991)

A movie still of people wearing Cubs baseball hats walking past a greystone front window.

A tour bike leaning on the front black metal fence of a greystone three flat with stadium seating on the roof.
3627 N Sheffield St, 3/21/21 – Vic’s home just outside of Wrigley Field. It seems the views of the games aren’t what they used to be.

While You Were Sleeping (1995)

A movie still of a limestone Gothic Revival church in evening sun

A tour bike at front of a grey limestone Gothic Revival towerless church with a large center arched window.
Emmanuel Episcopal Church of La Grange (John Tilton Jr, 1926) 7/9/21 –
CTA token taker Lucy’s parents got married in this church. Tokens!

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