Cook County, Illinois Historic photos, documents, and people

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Chicago, Illinois. Passengers, homeward bound from vacations, comparing postcards and souvenirs while they wait for the bus

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Mandel Assembly Hall to right, Botany Building (Hull Biological Laboratories) to left, University of Chicago,Chicago, Ill.

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Freight cars in the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad classification yard(?), Chicago, Ill. General view of Proviso yard

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Chicago, Illinois. A girl who is waiting between buses in the ladies' lounge at four a.m. in the Greyhound bus terminal

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John Paulinski, car inspector, blue flagging a train for inspection, at Corwith yard, Santa Fe RR trip, Chicago, Ill.

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View showing band shell, Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium, Soldiers' Field, Northerly Island, Chicago

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Chicago, Illinois. A pillow man at the Greyhound bus terminal taking used pillows from a bus that has just come in

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Santa Fe RR freight train about to leave for the West Coast from Corwith yard, Chicago, Ill., Santa Fe R.R. trip

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Joseph Klesken washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Proviso yards of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.