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Simone, tourist

@ChiNeighbor

Psychogeography. Travels through places and history.

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@wonder_city_30 Jul 2020
Old building, Old Town.
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@wonder_city_23 Jul 2020
This is bungalow country.
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The new Simplified, Citywide Mellow Chicago Bike Map includes visual shout-outs to public art and our city's diverse neighborhoods, drawn by @joemills2, including the Chinatown Gateway. Paper copies are in the current Reader, on the street until Thursday. chicagoreader.com/chicago/ci…
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@wonder_city_14 Jul 2020
New piece! An illustrated guide to a selection of Chicago surface transit over the years.
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Rookery, 1891.
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Stephanie Lulay@slulay28 Jul 2020
One year ago this week, a wayward alligator was spotted by a @blockclubchi reader in Chicago's Humboldt Park lagoon — & the rest is history! Happy Chance The Snapper Day! H/T to @mina_bloom_ for the scoop of a lifetime 🐊 blockclubchicago.org/2020/07…
Chance The Snapper Is Living His Best Life In Florida One Year After Stealing Chicago's Heart

Chance The Snapper Is Living His Best Life In Florida One Year After Stealing Chicago's Heart

HUMBOLDT PARK — A year ago Thursday, before the coronavirus pandemic and the economic fallout, Chicago was gripped by a small alligator. It was a

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You should take our self-guided bike tour of the 1919 Chicago race riots. 🚴‍♂️ You should also support Black-owned businesses along the route. Learn more: bit.ly/2YD2AAt
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@atlasobscura3 Jul 2020
The earliest item with moving parts @NewberryLibrary is a devotional manuscript (Vault Case MS 37.5, c. 1400) with a detachable volvelle bookmark. Turn the dial from Roman Numerals I-IV to specify a text column and move it up and down the string to show where you left off!
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Brian Kelly@brianbrands26 Jun 2020
Replying to @backwards_river
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Terminal, 1893 Columbian Exposition. Keystone-Mast Collection, UC Riverside, California Museum of Photography
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1888 illustration of Chicago
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With funding from @MellonFdn, we're partnering w/ the Pueblo of Santa Ana, the Forest County Potawatomi, + the American Indian community of Chicago to expand access to Indigenous Studies collections at the NL. newberry.org/newberry-librar…
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John Crouch@JCrouchPhoto25 Jun 2020
Does anybody know if there is a architectural collection of Expectation vs Reality photos? This might be inner circle Hall of Fame level.
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Clark from Washington, 1893
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Chicago 1947. Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer. pro.magnumphotos.com/Asset/-…
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Dennis Rodkin@Dennis_Rodkin19 Jun 2020
Nancy Green, 1st woman to portray Aunt Jemima, lived here on S. Indiana Avenue. Born enslaved in KY in 1834, came to Chicago with a white family. First appeared as Aunt Jemima at 1893 World’s Fair, continued until her death in 1923. (Hit by a car around the corner on 46th St.)
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Ashland Avenue, 1891.
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The next sacred space on the #MostEndangeredList is the St. Michael the Archangel Church, one of many churches threatened with closure by the Archdiocese of Chicago. Congregants built this Gothic Revival Church between 1907 and 1909, designed by Architect William J. Brinkmann.
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View south of the Art Institute of Chicago, c. 1900. LOC
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This was once the heart of Chicago’s “Lithuanian Downtown” 🇱🇹
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