FEATURE Image: August 2024. Oakbrook, IL. 5.83 mb 7758 (1).
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“Morning bread delivery waiting outside Berto’s, the storefront still closed but already in motion for the day.”
“Press crews converge as the speaker briefs the cameras, the choreography of local news unfolding in real time.”
“Billboard light spills over the crosswalk as the pair cuts through the frame, a flash of blue shoes and city rhythm.”
FEATURE image: June 2022. Chicago. 2.11mb
All photographs and text by John P. Walsh.
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.”
FEATURE Image: November 2017. Michigan-based Saints basketball team visiting in downtown Chicago.
All photographs and text by John P. Walsh.
The Logan Theatre at 2646 N. Milwaukee in Chicago opened in November 1915 as The Paramount Theatre. It was operated by Lubliner & Trinz that started operating movie theaters in Chicago around 1914. At their peak, Lubliner & Trinz operated about nineteen theaters and leased or built about 36 theaters until 1934. The Paramount had seating for 988 in orchestra level and was equipped with a Weickhardt organ, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was renamed the Logan Theatre in 1929 when it was taken over by Essaness, a Chicago-based movie theater chain. The company owned and operated 33 theaters in the Chicago area, including the Pantheon and Biograph theaters. see – Lubliner & Trinz Theater History – The Clark Theater ; Logan Theatre in Chicago, IL – Cinema Treasures – retrieved January 18, 2026.
The Chicago Athletic Association (CAA) was a historic men’s club and athletic team based in Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1890 and closed in 2007. The 1893 building was designed by prolific architect Henry Ives Cobb (1859-1931). Transformed into the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel, it opened as a boutique hotel, welcoming the public and preserving its rich history.
Van Buren Street Station is a commuter rail station in downtown Chicago that serves the Metra Electric Line to University Park, Blue Island, and South Chicago neighborhood and the South Shore Line to Gary and South Bend, Indiana.
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
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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.
FEATURE image: Chicago Loop, August 2014. Photographs ©John P. Walsh
All photographs and text by John P. Walsh.
William C. “Bill” Henry (1935-1992) for which this portion of 16th Street is named, was a 24th Ward Chicago alderman. Ald. Henry put together the coalition of Black and white aldermen to elect Eugene Sawyer (1934-2008) as mayor of the City of Chicago following the sudden death of Harold Washington (1922-1987), the first black mayor elected in Chicago.
Responding to accusations of deal cutting, Ald. Henry declared during the debate in the City Council chamber: “Deals? We was all making deals!” Henry’s constituents voted their alderman out of office for helping Sawyer in preference to Tim Evans, the reform candidate. Ald. Henry passed away from cancer in 1992 at 56 years old. In 2021 Timothy C. Evans is the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County.
see- http://www.cookcountycourt.org/ABOUT-THE-COURT/Office-of-the-Chief-Judge – retrieved June 3, 2021; https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2018/10/15/new-podcast-the-city-brings-back-memories-of-alderman-bill-henry-and-dealmaking-in-chicago – retrieved June 3, 2021.
Feature Image: August 2021. Chicago, Michigan Avenue. 1.68mb Photographs ©John P. Walsh
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