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A new vendor is set to take over its space.
Seafood fans travel from all corners of Illinois just for their famous smoked shrimp. It’s a place that honors tradition by ...
The Fish Keg proves that sometimes the most unassuming places guard the most delicious secrets. Where: 2233 W Howard St, ...
Jim and Suzanne Maxwell were already planning to visit their son Mark in St. Louis. But when a deadly E-F-3 tornado hit there ...
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 ...
CHICAGO (WGN) — The historic Maxwell Street Market is back for the summer season in Chicago, with plenty of offerings for those who stop on Halsted for the market’s 113th year in existence.
The Maxwell Street Market is back and kicks off Sunday on the city's Near West Side. At the event between South Halsted Street and South Union Avenue, attendees can check out handmade crafts ...
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 ...
Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine ... He also started busking at the famous Maxwell Street market, an important blues incubator ...
On its upper three floors is a University of Illinois Chicago ... old market. For a real memorial, watch the 2007 documentary Cheat You Fair, named for one of the unofficial slogans of Maxwell ...
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" ...