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Maxwell Street history: Street of dreams

"For about one hundred years," author Ira Berkow wrote, "Maxwell Street was one of Chicago's most unconventional business -- and residential -- districts.


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Flashback: 1933 World's Fair (05/11/08)
Chicago: A city changed and unchanged (04/13/08)
2004 | 'Clout on Wheels' had instant, continuing impact (02/29/08)
2001 | 'Why Are They Driving?' Now they're not (02/28/08)
Paper warned of deadly tire tread separation (02/27/08)
'Schools in Ruins' series got results (02/26/08)
Disclosure of improper payouts led AMA to limit chief executive's financial powers (02/25/08)
1986 | The Harold Washington Library -- a building that almost wasn't (02/23/08)
Probe exposed FHA loan defaults by developers (02/22/08)
Royko went to bat for Harold (02/21/08)
From tapioca to truffles (02/20/08)
60 years of recipes (02/20/08)
Series got action to ease plight of homeless (02/19/08)
1978: Bribes were only real thing at Mirage (02/17/08)
Cartoons that pack a punch (02/17/08)
'I always wanted to be rich' -- but series did in Council leader (02/14/08)
Series exposed unsafe abortions (02/13/08)
1971: Uncovering 'an awful odor of politics' (02/12/08)
1974: Before The Fixer, consumers relied on Action Time (02/11/08)
'The eyes of the paper' (02/10/08)
Picture-perfect (02/10/08)
1969: 'Those "bullet holes" aren't' (02/09/08)
1969: Advice for rioters: Look out for rocks (02/08/08)
1967: 'Ebert Named Film Critic' made page 57 (02/07/08)
1966: Mob caught skimming in Las Vegas (02/06/08)
1960: Reporting on the black 'metropolis' (02/05/08)
1955: Eppie Lederer -- our national treasure (02/04/08)
1951: Editor blew lid off cop's cover-up (02/03/08)
Welcome to our front door (02/03/08)
1950: Sparing voters from Tubbo's sticky fingers (02/02/08)
Tomorrow is our birthday! (02/01/08)
1948: Our fight for the little guy began on Day 1 (02/01/08)
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