Uptown Boys, 1965, Chicago. Danny Lyon
A soldier on leave builds sand castles with a volunteer at the servicemen’s center, Fullerton Ave Beach, 1943, Chicago.
Bobby Hull celebrates post game, 1966, Chicago. Art Shay
Let’s go Hawks!
Not just a gratuitous beefcake photo: Hull was famously proud of his physique and when not in a Blackhawks uniform, he would take his shirt off (or more) at the drop of a hat…
650 N Dearborn, at Erie, 1945, Chicago.
Built in 1882, the once notorious Raleigh Hotel still stands, converted to condos in the mid 1980s.
In 1934, the Metropolitan Housing Council was created to find a solution for the city’s slums and run down tenements.
At the onset, the idea was to rehab all of the run down homes in the city. The council placed two homes, one run down and the other modernized on the island at Wacker and Wabash. The claim was that the dilapidated home could be modernized in one day to look like the shining, gleaming cottage displayed.
When money did not materialize for this project, the council helped pass the Illinois Housing Act, which, along with the federal Housing Act of 1937, led to the first public housing projects built in the city.