FEATURE Image: August 2024. Oakbrook, IL. 5.83 mb 7758 (1).
“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: November 2017. Michigan-based Saints basketball team visiting in downtown Chicago.
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: Chicago Loop, August 2014. Photographs ©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
