Chicago History | Street Scenes 1888 -1933 Autos Arrive. Old Hi-Def Photos & Vintage Film【4K】 

Go, White Sox! 🧦💕😉

@@anneoboyle8447 😶 😯😐😲-😂😂😂 😘 Was my Mom team, tis ...ok, it's the Red Birds/STL and those dmn Yankees I loathe. I like the Red Sox though, not so much on the "South Side Sox" I love Sheffield Ave!

I always regret that I wasn't born sometime around 1905-10 and instead 1937 which to be frank is almost at deaths bed for most of the elderly...which means the chances of seeing anyone over the 1920s who is alive, is hardly any..especially with the hideous commercialized mass market chemical product killing us slowly each day.

Every age has its challenges. I am 65, and I abhor the uncouth manners, violence and ugliness with which humans treat each other today. Lack of discipline, lack of respect, and how little people often care about each other's rights to safety and property. Treatment from those who are supposed to be our leaders at all levels too. But there is much love too. There are always good and fair people too. There are for the majority, modern facilities, sewage, potable drinking water, and outside of major cities, reasonable protection from violence. The streets in this film or filmed still photos, were likely either cleaned or caught after a good rain. Even at this time, the city was a very unsanitary place. Where horses abound, horse manure does as well. Men went around with buckets, shovels and brooms cleaning it up to dump in manure carts or wagons. Sewers were non-existant, at least on the side streets and in all housing buildings. Chamber pots were still in use and had to be hauled out to collection wagons. Often it might be just hurled from windows, especially lower floors. There were gutters along some streets and sidewalks, but not nearly all. Running water simply did not exist in most buildings. There were some fire mains, but not everywhere. Crime of all kinds was rampant and the police were basically hired thugs. They were rough men because they had to be. Rights for an accused were almost unheard of and jails were horrible. Prisons were worse. Much more, but I think. You get the picture.

@@bensharp575 Some of what you've posted is factual. Much of it isn't. Chicago has many singular distinctions, and one of them being its status as having been the fastest growing world city in history. It went from a small settlement, and fort, to a world city in only a few decades. With incredible growth came challenges which inspired innovation. Necessity being the mother of invention. Many of the conveniences and hallmarks of modern urban, American life began in Chicago. Skyscrapers, packaged foods, cafeterias. Chicago achieved astonishing engineering feats, such as jacking up the entire downtown area, to raise the level of the city. Since Chicago was built on boggy, swampy land. They also reversed the course of the Chicago River in order to have clean drinking water and prevent water born diseases. During the turn of the century, most major streets were swept by street cleaners who cleaned up the horse manure. Chicago has alleys, and this is where folks then and now, disposed their garbage. Even poor neighborhoods took advantage of this feature. Some of your descriptions were better suited to Medieval Europe, and certainly not Chicago during the 30s. To say that police officers were, " thugs," back in the day, is a low shot and an insult. While there has always been bad cops, most police officers were respected, and many were well known by the people in the neighborhoods they patroled. A situation not encountered today. All that aside, I will concede that America's standards, whether its attire, manners, public conduct, morals, institutions, churches, etc. All have declined to a disgusting degree.

You think everyone was happy during these times? Lol think again. Not even close.

The air was brown because the only fuel used was coal, and a little wood. TB. NO AC. The wealthy went 300 miles north into Wisc, and Mich.

Function over form isn't isolated to Chicago if that's what you're referring to.

I believe it's the field museum

16;28. shed aquarium. 16;35 natural history museum ( field )

That’s Louis Sullivan’s Carson, Pirie, Scott Building. The corner entryway and the entire base section are differentiated from the spare upper stories by a unified system of extremely ornate decoration. The cast-iron ornament contains the same highly complicated, delicate, organic and floral motifs that had become hallmarks of Sullivan’s design aesthetic. For Sullivan, the decorative program served a functional project as well: to distinguish the building from those surrounding it, and to make the store attractive to potential customers. The building is still standing, Sullivan’s cast iron ornament was fully restored in 2009-2010

​@@the1stmikec Al Capone and the Chicago Bears who came around the 1920s

Ask enough questions, and find out the extent of deceit, lies, and complete fabrication of what is presented as factual history.

The people of the 1800s would probably feel the same about NOT being stuck in our time, I'd wager.

Yup.. One building replaced another! Here in California in less than 100 years,we have some houses that are probably the 3rd or 4th on the same property. No history remains Safe in Los Angeles much.

And also..look at how they widened the streets. Someone told me that in some places they just tarmacked ( asphalted) the cobblestones over and some of the tram tracks as well!! Much history above and below ground in Chicago.

We have a lot in common. I was born in Chicago in 1951, lived 84th and Francisco, later moved to the northwest side. My dad also worked for the Chicago Water Department. He was also a political hire, he was a precinct captain, and had to get votes out for the democrats also. He told me a lot stories about how the city was being used by the corrupt politicians and their friends.

B 1951. Lived at 75 and Euclid ? 1 block off the lake. Moved to Crystal lake in 57