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The Romanesque style station is architecturally significant as an example of pre-1945 police stations in Chicago. It was designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke and Franklin Pierce Burnham. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The Chicago Police Department vacated the station in 1998.
943-949 W. Maxwell Street: Near West Side: Built in 1888. Romanesque Revival police station that served in pacifying the "Bloody Maxwell" area from 1888 to 1988. [5] 2: Austin Historic District: Austin Historic District: August 8, 1985
The professional wrestler Colt Cabana is billed as being from "Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois". The Maxwell Street market of the 1960s/1970s is mentioned in the short story "Barbie-Q", by Sandra Cisneros, in her 1991 collection, Woman Hollering Creek. The story is about two Chicana girls who buy fire-damaged Barbie dolls sold at a discount ...
Smoky Joe's was a men's clothing store that was started on Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois [1] by Joseph Bublick in the late 1930s. The store was known as a trend setter in men's fashions. The name originated as a combination between Joe and his oldest son Morris (Morry) Bublick, who enjoyed smoking a pipe.
Terry "Machine Gun" Druggan (1903 – March 4, 1954) was an Irish-American mobster and leader of the Chicago based Valley Gang from 1919 and through the prohibition era. Druggan was very small in stature, with an explosive temper and a lisp, and was well known throughout the Chicago area as a tough street fighter. He was also ambitious, and ...
Charles W. Thompson (March 2, 1925 – December 28, 1995), [1] [2] known as Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis, was an American electric blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter.He played with John Lee Hooker, recorded an album for Elektra Records in the mid-1960s, and remained a regular street musician on Maxwell Street, in Chicago, for over 40 years. [3]
Manny's Cafeteria and Delicatessen, commonly known as Manny's Deli and sometimes known as Manny's Coffee Shop & Deli, is a delicatessen in Chicago, Illinois, United States, located in the Near West Side community area. [1] [2] It has been described as "the biggest, best-known, and oldest deli in the city". [3]
Maxwell Street: Dr. Philip Maxwell, one of Chicago's first surgeons Medill Avenue Named after Joseph Medill, owner of the Chicago Tribune. McClurg Court: A. C. McClurg, Chicago publisher McKinley Park: William McKinley, twenty-fifth President of the United States: Michigan Avenue: Named for Lake Michigan [37] Midway Airport: Battle of Midway ...