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

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.

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