Uptown Chicago History

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

At left is the New Lawrence Hotel, so the perspective is towards the east. A popular swimming pool was housed in the basement of the New ...

An idyllic stretch of Kenmore a hundred years ago, before most of the big entertainment venues, including the Uptown Theatre, were built.

eBay item 251063292910. Original caption in the Daily News read: Father Joseph Hai, a refugee who headed a Catholic High School at Binh-Tuy,...

Bill Matteson Uptown Chicago History Correspondent The Viceroy Hotel on the S.W corner of Kenmore and Lawrence changed it's name to ...

pre-condo , a photo by Jonie Snake on Flickr. Used with permission of flickr's "Share on Blogger" feature. Check out Jonie S...

Ilfracombe Apartments 1025-1031 W. Lawrence A very early view of the SE Corner of Lawrence and Kenmore, where Dib now stands. (Also see L...

Bill Matteson Uptown Chicago History Correspondent About 1949, I was lucky enough to land a job at Gary's Payless Drug Store that was i...

I had to do a double take when I saw this image. It's the corner of Lawrence and Kenmore, currently occupied with a strip mall and the r...

A rare view of the intersection, currently on eBay Here's how it looks today: View Larger Map

Original caption is: Jean Durochak eating pancakes sold by Boy Scouts at the Uptown Folk and Art Fair at Kenmore and Sunnyside in Chicago, ...

Judy Alt, an employee of the Uptown Federal Savings Bank, enjoying some cotton candy while the Uptown Folk Fair goes on beneath her, August...

We've featured this image before, but I wanted to give readers a head's up that there is another original postcard available of it o...

The Adolph Mueler Square War Memorial on the southeast corner of Sunnyside and Magnolia celebrates a rededication ceremony with Dr. Robert ...

Original image available (at time of posting) from here: Kenmore Nuns

Mrs. Violet Rubecamp reading one of the notices from the Chicago Police Department informing citizens that Kenmore Avenue and Winthrop Avenu...

The Sovereign Hotel, at 6200 Kenmore, as it looked in 1957. The Sovereign was designed by Walter W. Ahlschlager. Ahlschlager was the archite...

Purchase original postcard at: Kenmore South from Thorndale Google's Streetview screen capture: View Larger Map

5943 Kenmore (at Thorndale); image available at auction A great image from when Kenmore had a large number of mansions. Today, this stret...

  Today, the former hotel is home to Bryn Mawr Care , an Intermediate Care Facility with 174 beds for the chronically mentally ill. Google...