Photo Gallery - Near West Side

In this photo from March 1914, unemployed men are marching to City Hall. On the right of the image, Myron D. Staiger Drugs Store is visible, located at 1356 South Racine. Harry Feldman's Barber Shop, located at 1214 West 14th Street is also visible in the background.
(Chicago History Museum, DN-0062263)

Bug House Square, also known as Washington Square Park, was famous as perhaps Chicago's most popular free speech forum.
(Chicago History Museum, DN-0000005B)

"Driving the Rioters from Turner Hall" -- This illustration shows a confrontation between German furniture workers and the Chicago police on July 25, 1877, that marked Chicago's entry into the Great Upheaval of 1877. (Chicago History Museum, ICHi-14018)

This 1912 photograph shows a woman provided childcare instruction at the Washburne School, originally located on West 14th Street near South Union Street.
(Chicago History Museum, DN-0009517)

The Newberry Center, 1331 South Newberry Avenue.
(Chicago History Museum, ICHi-39916)

Graham Taylor, founder of the Chicago Commons Association, is shown here in 1917 sitting to the far right in a room in the Chicago Commons Building.
(Chicago History Museum, DN-0068462)

Elevated view of the remains of a tenement building at 813-823 West 14th Place and South Newberry Avenue, seen from across the street, after an explosion on February 2, 1917 at 12:50 a.m. The cause was believed to be a leak in the gas main. Approximately twenty-five people died. (Chicago History Museum, DN-0067592)

Recently completed Cabrini Homes (c. 1940), with the Montgomery Ward
headquarters and warehouse buildings in the background.
(Chicago History Museum, Ready Print G1989.0891.N178-2)

Alley Between Congress Boulevard and Harrison Street, 1910. (Chicago History Museum, ICHi-21030)