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Witness to subterranean Chicago. King of Lake Street. Guardian of the city’s oldest buildings. Telling a story of the unappreciated, unseen, unknown. MCMLXXXIV. All rights reserved.

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shrouded in fog, Wrigley Building and the Chicago River at Michigan Avenue

06.03.2026 23:01 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Shining Through the Rain
Shining Through the Rain YouTube video by Kim Mitzo Thompson - Topic

mid 90s yankee candle vibes today youtu.be/iOMoxDpjjzY?...

06.03.2026 22:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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three levels down, Lower Wacker Drive

06.03.2026 01:26 👍 36 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0
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2 AM, Lake Street fog

05.03.2026 23:58 👍 32 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0

urbus in nebula ☁️

05.03.2026 08:17 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Ann’s Bakery & Deli, Ukrainian Village

04.03.2026 23:38 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#DGFW26 Women’s Fashion Show: Madonna’s performance
#DGFW26 Women’s Fashion Show: Madonna’s performance YouTube video by Dolce&Gabbana

The Doll

04.03.2026 21:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lower Wabash Avenue

04.03.2026 10:20 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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service entrance for Chicago Motor Club building, Lower Wacker Place

04.03.2026 00:44 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

frame worker’s cottage with taller second story and Italianate paired wooden brackets and dentils on cornice, likely built mid-late 1870s during the settlement of village of Central Park

04.03.2026 00:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

frame worker’s cottage with Italianate paired wooden brackets and attic oculus, likely built mid-late 1870s

04.03.2026 00:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Google Streetview of the property with PIN10 1610409024: 4226 West Maypole Avenue

Google Streetview of the property with PIN10 1610409024: 4226 West Maypole Avenue

4226 West Maypole Avenue

03.03.2026 12:45 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

fuck, it’s cloudy as hell 😩

03.03.2026 10:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Eclipse Lunar 2026 2 y 3 De Marzo (Total Eclipse Blood Moon in Stunning) YouTube video by Live Cam Popocatepetl Y Mas Diegoxx 24H Noticias
03.03.2026 09:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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full moon, 400 North Wabash Avenue

03.03.2026 06:04 👍 42 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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mood

03.03.2026 02:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

a 2014 photo of the ornamental detail on the buildings, a lovely, romantic Italianate cast-iron pillar with a foliated heart incised design

03.03.2026 01:29 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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3116 and 3118 West Lake Street, built 1869

03.03.2026 01:18 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Scottie’s Fish Market, 1442 South Pulaski Road, now demolished (2011 and 2014 photos)

Hand-painted signs feature “Live from the Mississippi River”, “Catfish”, “Perch”, raccoon!

02.03.2026 16:05 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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it’s just like Vera said! 🌙 #totallunareclipse

02.03.2026 15:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Google Streetview of the property with PIN10 1610405036: 4220 West Lake Street

Google Streetview of the property with PIN10 1610405036: 4220 West Lake Street

4220 West Lake Street

01.03.2026 16:00 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Built 1877

28.02.2026 22:12 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Built 1882

28.02.2026 21:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Built 1919

28.02.2026 21:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

kinda wild that River West isn’t included but we are out here by Lake/Sacramento

28.02.2026 06:48 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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steel and shadow, Lower Beaubien Court

28.02.2026 06:35 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a worker’s cottage in Chicago with an ornate double-story porch like this, I love the fretwork on the wooden posts

28.02.2026 04:01 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

1880s worker’s cottages, photographed in 2018

survivors of the original village of Central Park, settled after 1873 opening of C&NW railroad shops (from "Block by Block: Neighborhoods & Public Policy on Chicago's West Side", Amanda I. Seligman)

28.02.2026 03:57 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

1870s unique worker’s cottage once stood here at 4236 West Carroll Avenue, demolished after 1984, and was Orange-rated in the Chicago Historic Resources Survey. Details like Gothic windows, overhanging eave and rectilinear window hoods.

28.02.2026 03:52 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

worker’s cottage built 1881, photographed in 2016

28.02.2026 03:47 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0