Photo Essay: Chicago Then & Now

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728 W. 14th Place


The Five Spot Sweet Shop is now a vacant lot near UIC.

710 W. 14th Place


"People live in these," Cushman wrote. "Squalid dwellings, once stores." Now a parking lot.

1251 S. Newberry St.


Once a temple near Maxwell Street (Congregation Ahavas Achim), it is now a parking lot for the St. Francis of Assisi Church, considered the "mother church" for Chicago's Mexican Catholics and the city's oldest Spanish-speaking church.

1000 W. Maxwell St.


1042 W. Maxwell St.


1044 W. Maxwell St.


1311 S. Morgan St.


Formerly a synagogue near Maxwell Street, the land is now a UIC athletic field.

1460 W. Madison St.


928 W. Sangamon St.


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