Notorious gangster Al Capone attempts to help unemployed men with his soup kitchen "Big Al's Kitchen for the Needy." The kitchen provides three meals...
"King" Oliver was the cornet player and band leader who brought Louis Armstrong from New Orleans to Chicago, helping to make jazz a more widespread...
Al Capone on the day of his release from jail, Chicago, 1939. He moved to Palm Island, Florida, never to take over his old crime organization, and...
All cotton goods factories and shops workers in Chicago have been called on strike by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, which claims...
Bartenders at Sloppy Joe's bar pour a round of drinks on the house for a large group of smiling customers as it was announced that the 18th Amendment...
Photograph of an elderly African American man walking along the street on Easter morning, Chicago, Illinois, 1935. From the New York Public Library.
African American Boys waiting outside of Episcopal Church to see the processional, South Side of Chicago, Illinois
View looking north from the 400 block of Michigan with Tribune Tower on the right and the Wrigley Building on the left.
Interior of Walter's Tavern showing owners and family-members behind the bar, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1933. Pictured are, from right to left, Irene...
Photograph of three members of the Moors, an African-American religious group of Chicago, Illinois, 1935. From the New York Public Library.
Exterior view of the Aragon Ballroom, located at 1106 W. Lawrence Avenue in Chicago's Uptown section, ca.1930s. The ballroom opened in 1926 and...
High angle view of traffic and pedestrians crossing the Michigan Avenue Bridge carrying Michigan Avenue over the Chicago River in Chicago, Illinois,...
Line of men wait outside a soup kitchen opened durin the depression by mobster Al Capone, Chicago, Illinois, February 1931. The storefront sign reads...
People/The Depression, 16th November 1930, A "soup kitchen" in Chicago, U,S,A, opened for the hungry and homeless by gangster Al Capone during the...
View of unemployed men as they line up outside a soup kitchen organized by mobster Al Capone, Chicago, Illinois, late 1930 or early 1931. .
The automobile of Edward J. O'Hare, president of Chicago's Sportsman's Park race track, wrecked against a pole into which it crashed after O'Hare was...
Police confronting strikers outside Republic Steel during what became known as the Memorial Day Massacre, Chicago, Illinois, May 30, 1937 .
Trainee flight attendants graduate from the American Airlines Stewardess College in Chicago, USA, 1939.
Faced with impossibility of finding buyers for their surpluses of milk, the producers empty their milk bottles onto a highway in Chicago as a way of...
View of Al Capone striding along escorted by police and unidentified men around the time of his trial, Chicago, 1931.
Barbara Lighthall is going to keep just a step ahead of the other "kids" and has her pumpkin all ready for Halloween.
Employees of the Inland Steel Company, Indian Harbor an industrial suburb of Chicago leaving one of the mills after a day's work.
Duke Ellington's Original Big Band poses in Chicago, IL, 1930. Ellington, in dark jacket, sits at left at piano.
Portrait of a trio of well-dressed young women as they sit on a bench in the South Side neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois, 1938. According to the...
Huge crowds gather outside the Federal Building in Chicago to get a glimpse of notorious gangster Al Capone during his trial for tax evasion, 1931.
View of unemployed men as they line up outside a soup kitchen organized by mobster Al Capone, Chicago, Illinois, late 1930 or early 1931.
Man reads a newspaper in front of his shack at Chicago shantytown during the Great Depression. The shantytown's site became the grounds for the 1933...
Children play with garbage in a slum section of Chicago. One of many places to be wiped out in Chicago's slum clearance project.
Chicago, IL- A daylight view of the scene of the killing of John Dillinger in Chicago. He had attended a movie in the theatre at the left when...
Cook County Coroner Herman Bundesen and a police officer named as Lieutenant Farrell examine bullet holes in a car belonging to gangster Johnny...
Group of men line up outside a Chicago soup kitchen opened by Al Capone, ca.1930s. In a bid to rebuild his reputation, Capone opened a soup kitchen...
The tow backstroking world-champions Eleanora Holm Jarret und Adolph Kiefer training at the Athletic Club Chicago for the olympic games in Berlin...
Volume 2, Page 65, Picture 5 America, An armoured vehicle surrounded by Chicago cops at the time of the American depression
An African American mother and her three children living in poverty in a cramped room. Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1935-1940.
Women protesters picketing at City Hall in support of Republic Steel strikers after what is known as the Memorial Day massacre, Chicago, Illinois,...
View of baseball fans as they keep warm in front of a fire while they wait outside Wrigley Field the night before tickets go on sale for the World...