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The bypass viaduct at Western/Belmont/Clybourn, to be demolished sometime early next year.

The sky and office/condo buildings are now visible through the beams that used to hold the southbound platform of the Madison/Wabash station...

Nearly 15 years ago, when I started lugging my Canon AE1 with me everywhere I went and taking photos of whatever caught my eye, I started lo...

Two pigeons warm themselves in the sun on the southbound platform at the CTA's Madison/Wabash station, which closed for good early this ...

Will Eisner’s graphic novel The Building begins with the author musing about how cityscapes change over time. “As I grew older and accum...

This face sits high atop a former movie theater on Cicero Avenue just north of Belmont.

According to the excellent Cinema Treasures website: "This small, early theater opened in 1912 on Cicero Avenue near Dakin Street, in t...

The Esquire Theater has been closed for years, but the sign remains.

The sign is all that remains of the Golden Angel, a 24-hour family-style restaurant that sat at the intersection of Montrose, Lincoln and Le...

I've long been a fan of silent films in general and the works of Charlie Chaplin in particular, but I must confess that, if I had to cho...

If you lived in Chicago and wanted to buy something unusual or unique--whether for a friend as a present or for yourself for kicks--where wo...

My Dominick's Fresh Values card is old. Battered. Dirty. Recently lost a large chunk due to due to deterioration. I've had it in my ...

I was a sickly kid. I spent much of much of my childhood in and out of hospitals with various ailments: Chronic tonsilitis, eventually lea...

The Iowa Pharmacy sign still creaks in the breeze on Western Avenue years after it closed.

The Borders sign still hands over the doorway to the former bookstore (which had been a Goldblatts before that) on Broadway near Lawrence.

When I was a child--and I assure you that, at some point in the distant past, I was, in fact, a child--I grew up in a neighborhood that did...

It had been there as long as I could remember--the rundown-looking pizza place on Irving Park Road just west of Kedzie. Even before I...