The publication wars: how rival newspapers turned 1900s Chicago into a bloody battlefield
Crime boss or publishing magnate? You decide.
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‘Our Lady of the Underpass’: How the Virgin Mary made Chicago lose its mind in 2005
“Well, it looks like it if you squint.”
The Gay Community: Who thought there was a real life Dorothy that all gay men were friends with?
“I have friends everywhere. Mainly in theatre, for some reason.”
Stanley Kubrick shoots ‘Chicago: City of Extremes’
Stanley Kubrick got his first camera off his old man Jacques when he was thirteen. It was a Graflex Pacemaker with a coated lens, body…
Baby-faced goths: Rare photos of early Bauhaus gig in Chicago’s meatpacking district, 1980
Peter Murphy putting on his makeup before their first Chicago gig at ‘Space Place’ in 1980. Photo by Brian Shanley. Chicago-based photographer Brian Shanley was…
The Smashing Pumpkins–very early on–live for an hour on a local Chicago TV show, 1988
Smashing Pumpkins What you are about to see is some pretty incredible early footage of the Smashing Pumpkins performing songs from their first demo tape…
Creepy slow-waving clown in Chicago cemetery caught on camera
Julia Graham and her husband were driving past the Rosehill Cemetery on Chicago’s North Side at 10pm when they saw something straight out of a…
Lovers-n-Killers: Chicago gang members’ business cards from the 1970s and 1980s
These business cards come from Chicago during the 1970s and early 1980s–a charmingly distinguished touch for what was after all in most cases just a…