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1. South Water Street Wholesale Produce Market, between 1900 and 1910

"The great central depot for Chicago's fruits, vegetables, fish, and poultry," was this "intensely congested and busy thoroughfare one block north of Lake Street and near the main trunk of the river." Because of the congestion, the access to the market was difficult; and spoilage and business losses from the problems were accepted grudgingly as part of the risks of the trade.

(Courtesy Chicago Historical Society.)

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2. Present City Hall and County Building

Designed by Holabird and Roche, the City Hall and County Building was constructed in the block bounded by Randolph, Clark, Washington, and LaSalle Streets between 1906-11.

3. Libby Prison, Wabash Avenue and Fifteenth Street, 1891

A notorious prison for Union soldiers in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, it was brought, stone by stone, to Chicago and reconstructed in the 1880's. Its walls were subsequently used as part of the Coliseum.

(Courtesy Lawndale-Craford Histrocial Society, Toman Branch Library.)

4. The Coliseum, Pro-

The Coliseum was the national political convention grand event of all kinds, met here in 1908, 1912, picture is probably of the when William Howard presidential nomination. succeeded as the city's arena by the Chicago Stadium, then the home of the Chicago Professional Amphitheatre. McCormick Place, the best for public and sporting

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