Connecting the Windy City

Chicago River Walk Construction (Curbed Chicago) I swear – I never will get used to how quickly time goes by.   As I wound my way u...

Chicago Burns, October 8, 1871 (Wikipedia Photo) Most Chicagoans recognize the significance of the year 1871.   The second red star in ...

Well, we’re back home after a 2,100-mile driving odyssey up the east coast and across the Allegheny Mountains to flat land once again.   It...

Everybody is a little touchy back in May of 1913 as a result of waiting six years for the Washington Boulevard Bridge to be completed.   On...

The "S-Curve" (Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection) From the “I Tried to Tell You, but You Just Wouldn’t Listen” departm...

Meat Me on the River (Chicago Daily News Archive) So . . . on March 10, 1919 the wall of a warehouse that belonged to the United States...

Events of the Week of May 5-11 in 1902 May 5:   The tug Leslie is crippled and the schooner Jeanette smashed through on the port bow af...