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Look Back, Chicago is a history blog about those old Chicago buildings, signs and other structures that still exist around you. Run by @neilarsenty.

 Chicago, IL
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Joined February 2018
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I’m standing in line to see the Uptown Theater which is open to the public for the first time in 45 years this weekend. They had more than 4,000 people visit yesterday. It opens at 10am and I got here at 9:15 and the GA line already stretches more than half a mile!
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It took 3+ hours but it was worth it.
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Sears, Roebuck and Co. store at Six Corners (the intersection of Irving Park Road, Cicero and Milwaukee Avenues) in Portage Park in Chicago, circa 1960.
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Wolf Point, Chicago. 1885 and today.
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Carson Pirie Scott, State Street, December in early 1970s. 📷 Allan Zirlin.
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Christmas Shoppers board motor coach with holiday purchases at State & Madison Streets, December 1937. (Chicago Tribune Historical Photo)
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Finally got out to Walt Disney’s birthplace in Hermosa for Open House Chicago. The work being done is quite exciting! Can’t wait to see what’s to come.
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@BrianRoemmele24 Sep 2024
The Worlds Fair 1893. This is who we were…
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✶ ✶ ✶ ✶@chi_urbanist5 Sep 2024
Indian trails circa 1804 based on 20th century mapping by Scharf
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Chicago, which do YOU prefer?
38%Spring 70 degree days
62%Fall 70 degree days
354 votes • Final results
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Feel free to share your thoughts/reasoning why in the comments!
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This is a travesty.
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@theepicmap29 Aug 2024
Replying to @theepicmap
12. Abandoned and out-of-service railroad lines
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Chicago population, 1900-1950, by square mile for each decade
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Robert Loerzel@robertloerzel18 Aug 2024
Here's my latest historical deep dive: Rainbo’s Rise and Fall. The story of Rainbo Gardens in the late 1920s. Gambling! BYOB cocktails! Dance marathons! Political banquets! And a tragic death. robertloerzel.com/2024/08/18…
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Fraternal twins.
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Dedication plaque for Bryn Mawr Avenue bridge, 1968, Chicago.
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Robert Loerzel@robertloerzel20 Jun 2024
Here is my new chronicle of the Uptown Theatre's opening in 1925. I don't have any news to report about plans to reopen it. But let's take a look back at when it was the world's largest movie theater, with "magnificence beyond all your dreams." robertloerzel.com/2024/06/19…
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Got on a fancy CTA bus today.
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@Eric_Erins13 Apr 2024
People rightly mourn America’s lost Interurban rail network but something called out on this map I rarely see people mention are the disappearance of Ferry/ passenger water routes.
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Jeff Nichols🌻@backwards_river15 Mar 2024
1300 block of W. Argyle, Chicago 1947
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