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Wrecked automobile lying upside-down in a ravine beneath a bridge with a crowd of people standing on a hill in the background

Informal full-length portrait of Life guards Esther DeWolfe and Arthur Turk Conley wearing bathing suits, posing on the side of a swimming pool in Chicago, Illinois. DeWolfe is sitting in a high lifeguard chair, and Conley is pointing to the left of…

Photograph of poster relating to the epidemic of influenza in Chicago occurring during the fall of 1918. Part of the text reads, "Influenza frequently complicated with pneumonia is prevalent at this time throughout America. This theatre is…

This is a perspective map of Chicago in 1857 that shows the early beginnings of the city. It provides a bird's eye view above the lake of the city streets and buildings.

This is an 1880's photo of 1741 W Wrightwood in the Lincoln Park Neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Note the wooden sidewalk, dirt road and lack of buildings surrounding the edifice.

The image shows the raising of a block of brick buildings on Lake Street, Chicago, in 1857.

A streetcar travels on 12th Street, east from Halsted Street, Chicago, Illinois, in 1906.

Children selling candy apples and other goods near the area of Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois, in 1906.

This image shows the view of crowds on State Street, south from Washington Street, in Chicago, Illinois, 1913.

An black and white photograph of a man being removed by another man and a police officer from a bar or shop nearby. He is clearly either drunk or been in a fight on what the photographer writes is Christmas Eve night. (East 78th Street & 3rd Avenue,…

Charles Waliczek at Estelle's Cozy Inn at 3062 S. Broad Street in Chicago on April 26, 1949. (Note: The original image has been cropped for purposes of the game.)

This is a black and white image of a train car as it moves over the Lake Street Bridge in Chicago, 1924.

An artist’s depiction of residents inside Dunning, published in 1898 in the Chicago Inter Ocean newspaper.

This February 1947 photo, taken inside the Chicago State Hospital, shows the poorly ventilated, narrow and congested hallways where some patients slept.

Exterior view of the Iroquois Theater at the time of the Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago, Illinois, December 30, 1903.

View of a fire engine and male firefighters in an alley during the Iroquois Theater fire, December 30, 1903, Chicago, Illinois.

View of the ruined stage of the Iroquois Theater, Chicago, Illinois, after the fire on December 30, 1903. Taken on January 4, 1904, the photographer was looking down from the balcony.

Exterior view of the the northeast corner of Clark Street and Ontario Street, Chicago, Illinois, October 1952. Formerly the Clarendon Hotel.

This is a bird's eye view map of Chicago in 1857 that shows the early beginnings of the city. It was first drawn by James T. Palmatary. Later drawn on stone by Christian Inger, lithographed by Herline and Hensel, and published by Braunhold and Sonne,…

A Newsboy stands by several street vendors in Maxwell Street area, Chicago, Illinois, 1906.

This image shows the view of crowds on State Street, south from Washington Street, in Chicago, Illinois, 1913.

Children selling candy apples and other goods near the area of Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois, in 1906.

A streetcar travels on 12th Street, east from Halsted Street, Chicago, Illinois, in 1906.

Workers leave the Pullman Palace Car Works, 1893. This picture appeared in a promotional booklet celebrating the paternalistic labor policies of George Pullman. A year later Pullman's workers were at the center of a national strike of rail workers…

Old Cook County Hospital opened in 1866 at 18th and Arnold Streets, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1900.

Patients at the Chicago State Hospital walking outdoors on a snow-covered path, Chicago, Illinois, December 10, 1910. The Chicago State Hospital (also called the Dunning Mental Institute) was located at West Irving Park Road and North Narragansett…

A close-up black and white photograph of three men on a porch stoop. They are obviously homeless, desolate, and probably drinking alcohol in the image.

Image of Drs. Neely and Hanley vaccinating building department clerks against smallpox in a room in the County Building in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.

Boys and horse drinking from the Drake Fountain in front of City Hall, Chicago, Illinois, 1887.

Crowd in front of a storefront with the sign Bank Real Estate during the race riots in Chicago, Illinois, 1919.