Donation Options Search Search Search The Maxwell Street area in 1929 ... is a nice bow to the original Maxwell Street’s place in Chicago’s history. Maxwell Street vendors currently set ...

native who says he has produced more than a dozen other works of public art around Chicago. Plax says the aim was to bring Maxwell Street’s history alive and also to brighten the viaduct so ...

Author Ira Berkow, who wrote “Maxwell Street: Survival in a Bazaar” in 1977, referred to the historic Chicago market as “the Ellis Island of the Midwest.” Aiming to celebrate that ...

On August 23, Chicago’s WBEZ ... primer on Chicago Jewish history beginning with the arrival of Eastern European Jews in the 1880s on Maxwell Street, where K.I.N.S. started, and ending in ...