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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 ...
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.
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]
There are 76 sites in the National Register of Historic Places listings in West Side, Chicago, out of more than 350 listings in the City of Chicago.The West Side is defined for this article as the area north of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, south of Fullerton Avenue, west of the Chicago River and east of the western city limits.
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]
These projects, however, pale in comparison to a scheme for the E. Maxwell Street corridor that calls for the demolition of at least 12 historic buildings dating from the 1880s to the 1920s.
Old Apartment House Answers to Modernizing, Chicago Tribune, April 29, 1934, p. C4; Artist Colony Forms One Big Happy Family, Chicago Tribune, Nov. 15, 1942, p. N1; Instant Attraction - The Quirky Charms of a 1930s Apartment in Old Town Mesmerized the Buyers, But Soon Those Edgar Miller Oddities Had to be Turned into Something Livable, Chicago ...
The Maxwell Street Depot is a 24-hour fast-food restaurant in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is located at 31st Street and Canal Street in the Bridgeport neighborhood. [1] The Maxwell Street Depot is one of a number of Chicago food stands that sells the Maxwell Street Polish, a Polish sausage topped with grilled onions, yellow mustard ...