Uptown Chicago History

Uptowners ..we will be holding a three day reunion this September 12th through the 14th Location: At the Embassy Suites Hotel in Deerfield...

It's been a while since we've posted, but we're back and thrilled to announce that Bob Rehak's book of Uptown Chicago ima...

Thanks to Doug for sending this fourth-grade class photo. Does anyone remember the teacher's name?

Thanks to a reader for sending this one in! For a brief time in the late sixties, the Aragon Ballroom was transformed into the uber-hi...

  My father grew up in Andersonville, and for him, Christmas included a visit to the Swedish Bakery. Customers came from all across the...

What a fun photo! The firemen of the local Uptown station at Wilson and Racine let the neighborhood kids climb aboard the truck. Origin...

by Steven Vance Appearing on WGN/CLTV in May, 46th Ward Alderman James Cappleman said that “we’re doing everything we can to create more p...

View of the apartment house located at 5114 Kenmore Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, where Special Agents of the FBI arrested Roger "Terrible...

One more for the night, you say? Absolutely! Here is the Isham Jones orchestra. Jones, born in Ohio and raised in Saginaw, Michigan, moved t...