The performance ran all morning and much of the afternoon Sunday in the heart of the Maxwell Street market, where blues singer-guitarist Lindsey has been playing off and on since he was a kid.

Maxwell Street shines on the big screen — but it’s now ‘Anytown U.S.A.,’ critics say ... “The blues traveled from Maxwell Street and Halsted all over the world,” said Wheeler, 71.

But it also brings closer an end to the last vestiges of Maxwell Street, where for more than 100 years, merchants peddled goods on the street, blues singers learned their trade and vendors dished ...

He developed an affinity for blues guitarists of an older generation, including Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red. He also started busking at the famous Maxwell Street market, an important blues ...

He became a regular at the Maxwell Street Market, a bustling open-air immigrant bazaar that played an important role in incubating the famous sound of Chicago electric blues. From the 1930s onward ...

Exploring the life, music, and importance of Texas blues musician Blind Arvella Gray, who devoted himself to busking for spare change in the heart of Chicago.

The Maxwell blues: June's market theme is "Celebrating Chicago Blues," with performers scheduled each hour. Yes, but: "On old Maxwell Street there was no czar who decided who would play and where ...

rocking Maxwell Street Market scene in the 1980 Blues Brothers movie, where Jake and Elwood pass through a crowd listening to John Lee Hooker perform on their way to see Aretha Franklin and Matt ...

It’s also the birthplace of Chicago Blues and the iconic Maxwell Street Polish. In 1994, the market was moved to Canal Street to accommodate the expansion of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Maxwell Street Market has become synonymous with Mexican ... regarded by music historians as the birthplace of the Chicago blues scene — a connection commemorated decades later in the 1980 ...

A group of concerned citizens, activists and blues performers formed the Maxwell Street Historic Preservation Coalition in an attempt to save something of the street. They have created a sculpture ...