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My Street Photography: SIGNS OF THE TIMES II.

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FEATURE image: June 2022. Chicago. 2.11mb

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July 2016. In business 1962 to 2022. 4.80mb DSC_0916 (1) Elk Grove Bowl: Bowling alley closing after nearly 60 years in Elk Grove Village – ABC7 Chicago – retrieved March 19, 2026.
August 2016. In business from 1961 to 2015. 80 W Higgins Rd, Hoffman Estates, IL 60169 3.69mb DSC_0076 (1). REMEMBERING HOFFMAN LANES – History of Schaumburg Township – retrieved March 19, 2026.
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January 2016. 3314 W. 63rd St., Chicago. Marquette Photo Supply opened in November 1944. Owner Joe Herbert sold and repaired photo equipment and processed film. His father and brother operated the barbershop next door. The family lived in an apartment behind the store. For decades, Mr. Herbert supplied equipment to photography students at many high schools, including nearby all-girls Mother McAuley. A beloved presence in the neighborhood, the shop closed in 2017 when Mr. Herbert passed away. 96% 7.91mb see – https://chicago.suntimes.com/2017/9/14/18318528/joseph-joe-herbert-dies-ran-marquette-photo-supply-for-73-years – retrieved January 30, 2025.
May 2016. State & Chicago. 5.32mb DSCN2408 (1)
November 2017. Below the fold. 4.85mb DSC_3148
July 2016. Established in 1928. 3259 E. 95th Street, Chicago. DSC_0793 (1)
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January 2018. Chicago. Downtown. 3.71 mb
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October 2015. October 2015. St Cornelius Church, 5430 W. Foster Ave, in Chicago when it was still an active parish church. Built in 1964, it closed in 2020 for lack of mass attendance and was desacralized in 2021. In 2024 the church building was sold to be redeveloped as a funky 1960’s style club and pickleball court. The site redevelopment will include parking and an event space with stage for pinball games, beverage lounge, and record spinning area. St. Cornelius for whom the church was named was a 3rd century pope who was banished from Rome by the Roman emperor Trebonianus Gallus and who died in exile. 5.91mb DSC_0311 (1) see – https://www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-real-estate/former-st-cornelius-church-be-pickleball-court-and-club – retrieved June 23, 2025.
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Liberty Bank’s origin dates back to 1898 when parishioners of All Saints Polish National Catholic Church on Chicago’s North Side (2392 N. Milwaukee Avenue) came together to form a mutual savings institution committed to “neighbors helping neighbors.”

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July 2016. Chicago. 1653 W Cortland Street. 3.39mb DSCN3213 (2)
August 2016. 3401 W. Fullerton at Kimball Avenue, Chicago. 3.32mb DSC_0590 (1)
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My Street Photography: SIGNS OF THE TIMES I.

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FEATURE image: July 2015. Chicago. 134 S Wabash Ave, Chicago 60603. According to their website, Miller’s Pub was established as a bar in 1935 which was bought in 1950 by Pete, Nick and Jimmy Gallios, three brothers of Greek descent. A fourth brother, Vannie, worked his way into a stake in the business in 1953. Miller’s Pub thrived in the same location until 1989 when they moved around the corner into another of their restaurants they owned located at 134 S. Wabash. Over the years entertainers, politicians and sports figures have patronized Miller’s Pub in Chicago’s Loop including Chicago mayors, Jimmy Durante, Marilyn Monroe, Bill Veeck, Harry Caray, Tony Bennett and Bob Fosse’s dancers who came for an after-show nightcap. 3.68 mb

January 2024. 7.89 mb 80%
October 2023. 6.86mb 99%
August 2021. Chicago 7.43 mb 70%
August 2015. Chicago. Michigan Avenue.
Chicago. 6.30 mb 95%
July 2015. Chicago. 40%
October 2014. Chicago. Symphony Center. 1.99 mb
October 2014. Chicago. Symphony Center. 2.51 mb
December 2016. Chicago. Auditorium Theatre.
January 2018. Chicago. Macy’s State Street. 872kb (10)
September 2016. Forest Park, Iilinois. 5.11 mb
September 2015. Chicago. 3.82 mb
January 2018. Oak Park, Iilinois. 2.40 mb
September 2015. Chicago (Streeterville). 2.75 mb
October 2016. Chicago (Chinatown). 4.78mb DSCN4244 (1)
August 2015. Chicago (Chinatown). 3.44 mb
July 2016. Chicago (Chinatown). 5.01 mb
February 2018. Chicago. 4.74 mb
December 2017. Westmont IL. 7.83 mb 98%
September 2017. Chicago. 2.80 mb
June 2022. Chicago. 7.79mb 77%
October 2017. Margie’s Candies at 1960 N. Western Avenue in the Bucktown neighborhood in Chicago was founded in 1921. It was renamed Margie’s Candies in 1933. In August 1965 Margie’s Margie’s hosted the Beatles who came in after they played a concert at Comiskey Park in Bridgeport. The Fab 4 ordered “Fudge Atomic Sundaes” that are still on the menu today which can complement to Margie’s since much of its décor is original from its first day of business. 3.03 mb
May 2018. Villa Park, Illinois. 4.06 mb
October 2022 5.80 mb 99%
February 2019. Evanston, Illinois. 4.94 mb
June 2022. Evanston, Illinois. 7.70 mb
April 2020. Downers Grove, Illinois. 7.39mb
March 2018. Lisle, Illinois. 3.38 mb (30)
July 2015. Chicago. 3300 W. 111th St, 60655. 4.16 mb
July 2023. 7.65 mb 74%
August 2015. 4900 N. Broadway Chicago. 3.54 mb
April 2020. Cancelled & re-scheduled. 4.15 mb. see – Frida Kahlo: Timeless — CCMA – retrieved Dec. 26, 2025.
June 2020. Downers Grove, Illinois. 4.59 mb
September 2015. Chicago (South Loop). 3.82 mb
August 2017. Watseka, Illinois. 6.24mb
August 2017, Kentland, Indiana. 3.16mb
June 2018. Chicago. 558 E 79th St, 60619 3.64mb
June 2021 95%
June 2018. Cedarburg, Wisconsin. 6.23 mb 95%
February 2018. Chicago (Kennedy Expressway). 6.58 mb (40)
June 2018. 80% 7.82 mb DSC_0641. In 1966 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King lived in Chicago on the West Side at 1550 S. Hamlin Avenue Dr. King preached at Stone Temple Baptist Church at 3622 W. Douglas Boulevard, a ten-minute walk away. Built in 1926 as a synagogue in the North Lawndale neighborhood the building became a Baptist church in 1954. Already in the 1950’s and early 1960’s Dr. King had delivered several speeches at Stone Temple MB Church in his civil rights efforts and used the church during his 1966 Chicago residency as a base for his civil rights and fair housing advocacy. His efforts led to the signing of the 1968 Fair Housing Act on April 11, 1968, a week after his assassination. Today, Stone Temple is led by Bishop Derrick M. Fitzpatrick, the grandson of Rev. James Marcellus, the church’s founder.
February 2018. Chicago (Loop). 3.63 mb
December 2015. Chicago (Michigan Avenue). 4.30 mb
November 2017. Chicago (South Loop). 3.50 mb
February 2018. Chicago. 6.18 mb
September 2015. Chicago. 6.33 mb
June 2022. Chicago. 5.86 mb
December 2012. Chicago. 6.67 mb 99%
May 2022. 7.33mb 98% (50)
October 2023 7.78 mb 68%
June 2022 7.02mb
March 2017. Post Office. 4.11 mb
September 2022. Lisle Illinois. 6.57 mb
August 2016. Kendall Co., IL. 3.48mb
August 2022. 7.57 mb 99%
August 2021. Chicago. 6.25 mb 99%
August 2015. Chicago, 8611 S Pulaski Rd 60652. 7.71 mb 87%
May 2022. Wheaton, Illinois. 917 E Roosevelt Rd, 7.76 mb 99%
July 2017. Alsip, IL (demolished). 4.56 mb (60)
August 2015. Chicago. 2116 W. 95th Street, 60643. 7.13 mb
June 2014. Waukegan, Illinois. 7.10mb
May 2023. Downers Grove, Illinois. 7.09 mb 99%
August 2023. Wheaton, Illinois. 7.75 mb 61%
August 2023. Tivoli. 7.17mb 99%
September 2023. Downers Grove, illinois. 7.84mb 91%
June 2023. Downers Grove, Illinois. 7.95mb
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July 2023. Darien, IL. 7.94mb 85%
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December 2017. Chicago. 141 kb 25%
March 2013. Chicago. 65%
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April 2024. Downers Grove, Illinois. 99% 7.06mb
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April 2024. 90% 7.79mb (2.15 minutes). Based on a 1934 French stage play, The Crime Is Mine (“Mon Crime’) is  2023 French film about a young actress (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) who becomes celebrated overnight after being acquitted of murdering a French movie producer in self-defense. But is she really innocent – or has she just gotten away with murder? The crime-comedy film was directed François Ozon who conceived it as a tale “ultimately about the triumph of sorority” and influenced by French directors Jean Renoir and Francois Truffaut and Americans Ernst Lubitsch, Frank Capra and Blake Edwards. Ozon based Isabelle Huppert’s character on French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt. The plot and characters of the original stage play by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil became the basis for two Paramount Pictures’ films in the 1930s and 1940s – “True Confessions” starring Carole Lombard in 1937 and “Cross My Heart” starring Betty Hutton in 1946. Reviews for The Crime is Mine have been generally favorable citing particularly its star power.
November 2017. Countryside, Illinois. 5.44 mb
November 2017. Countryside, Illinois. 5.35 mb (80)
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May 2024. Burger King was founded in Miami, Florida in 1954. Downers Grove, Illinois. 6.61mb
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May 2024. Downers Grove, Illinois. II 81% 7.71 mb
Chicago. May 2024 3.24 mb
Chicago (Chinatown). 4/2013 2.86 mb
Chicago. 6/2022 7.72mb 85%
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November 2012. Wheaton, Illinois. 2.59mb 101_0382
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The owner came to the US from Italy through Ellis Island in 1938. The family business, Domino’s Pastries, was founded in this location in Chicago in 1952. Their loyal customer base is witnessed when the same couples who ordered their wedding cakes at Domino’s ordered many years later their anniversary cakes.

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August 2013. Aurora, Illinois. 3.48mb DSC_0848 (1)
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April 2016. Joliet, Illinois. 6.12mb DSCN2341 (1)
May 2016. Wheaton. 5.16 mb DSC_0597 (1) Last Slice Served At Jack Straw’s Pizza In Wheaton | Wheaton, IL Patch – retrieved March 9, 2026.
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