A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the ...

Maxwell Street Market has been organized for more than a century. This year, the summer market started on May 18, 2025, the first Sunday out of a total of 6 Sundays from May to October. Visitors ...

the Chicago hot dog, the Italian beef sandwich and later, for better or worse, the deep-dish pizza. In the mid-'90s, the scourge of gentrification closed the original Maxwell Street Market ...

CHICAGO — Sunday marks the final day of the Maxwell Street Market for 2024, and it will feature the market’s inaugural “Kids Edition.” Special activities include 35-40 vendors, along with ...

A statue of an old vendor stands at the end of Maxwell Street, wearing a "Save Maxwell Street" T-shirt. (Caitlyn Rosen/Courthouse News) CHICAGO (CN) — A rendition of the blues standard "Crossroads" ...

CHICAGO — A Summer staple is back ... “We appreciate the fact that they let us come over here on the old Maxwell Street and start the market again,” Petty said. From nostalgic books to ...

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But as the University of Illinois-Chicago began to expand in the early 1990s, the market eventually vanished, despite the energetic efforts of the members of the Maxwell Street Historic ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The iconic Maxwell Street ... I'm going to have live music," Cabrera said. Unlike the Maxwell Street Market of old, however, the new market will set up shop for six days only ...

Each brought their own cultures and hopes to the vibrant street and the Market that sprang from it. In doing so, they made Chicago a richer place.” This summer’s version of Maxwell Street ...