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5,170 1950s Chicago Stock Photos & High-Res Pictures

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1940s 1950s THE LOOP DOWNTOWN SKYLINE CHICAGO ILLINOIS USA

1940s 1950s THE LOOP...

1950s 1960s Pedestrians Cars Lights Traffic Chicago Theater Marque North State Street Downtown Scene At Night Chicago Illinois USA

Pedestrians in Chicago

1950s 1953 NIGHT SCENE OF CHICAGO STATE STREET WITH TRAFFIC AND MOVIE MARQUEE WITH PEDESTRIANS ON THE SIDEWALKS

1950s 1953 NIGHT SCENE OF...

View of the Chicago Theatre from State and Lake L station looking southeast along State Street in Chicago, Illinois, January 1951.

Chicago Theatre St Scene

1950s: Chicago skyscrapers and Michigan Boulevard skyline.

Chicago skyline

Muddy Waters records at Chess Records circa 1952 in Chicago, Illinois.

Blues Singer Muddy Waters In The Studio

Aerial view, along Michigan Avenue, of the Palmolive Building , Chicago, Illinois, mid 20th century.

Michigan Avenue & Palmolive Building From The Air

Blues musicians on Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois, circa 1950.

Blues musicians on Maxwell Street

Ricard J. Daley, Democratic Candidate for Mayor of Chicago, prepares to cast his vote in the primary election as his family gathers around to wish...

Richard J. Daley Prepares to Cast His Vote

High angle view showing a funnel-shaped plume of smoke from a fire at a block-long stock yard in the distance, viewed over the rooftops of the south...

Stockyard Fire, Chicago, 1958

High angle view of the Chicago Business District, showing the Michigan Avenue Bridge spanning the Chicago River, the Wrigley Building , the Tribune...

Chicago Business District

Street scene in an unidentified Chicago neighborhood shows three young children standing in front of a wood-sided home, with an automobile parked on...

Three Kids And A Car

View of children playing on a muddy back street alley in the 500 block of Thrity-seventh street in Chicago, 1951. The slum conditions prompted the...

Slum Conditions In Chicago

View of the iconic, historic Chinatown of Chicago, Illinois, circa 1930-1960.

Pictured: NBC News camera crewat the 1956 Democratic National Convention held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Il from August 13-17,...

1956 Democratic National Convention

View, along Oak Street Beach, of the downtown skyline, Chicago, Illinois, mid 20th century. Among the visible structures are the Palmolive Building...

Downtown Chicago & Oak Street Beach

The Wrigley Building, a skyscraper across Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1920-1960.

High-angle view of the Wrigley Building, the corporate headquarters of the Wrigley Company, and the Tribune Tower, headquarters of the Chicago...

N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL

Pictured: NBC News camera crew at the 1956 Democratic National Convention held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Il from August 13-17,...

1956 Democratic National Convention

1960s Nighttime On State Street In The Loop Blurred Automobile Traffic Lights Commercial Store Fronts Signs Chicago Illinois USA

Chicago at Night

Freight trains and ore thawing at 101st Street and Calumet River railyards, Chicago, Illinois, January 20, 1951.

Freight Trains & Ore Thawing In Railyards

Aeriel view, looking north, of downtown buildings and the Chicago River, Chicago, Illinois, mid 20th century

Downtown Chicago

Pedestrians and traffic crossing at the intersection of Madison Street and State Street in Chicago, Illinois, circa 1955.

Madison & State Intersection, Chicago

Undated picture taken at Chicago showing the city's landscape with buildings, skyscrapers and the roads full up with cars.

USA-ARCHITECTURE-URBAN LANDSCAPE

UNITED STATES, CHICAGO, VIEW OF CITYSCAPE WITH MODERN BUILDINGS AND VEHICLES MOVING ON STREET

UNITED STATES, CHICAGO, VIEW OF CITYSCAPE WITH MODERN BUILDINGS AND VEHICLES MOVING ON STREET

Aeriel view, looking east towards Lake Michigan, along the Chicago River and surrounding buildings, Chicago, Illinois, mid 20th century.

View along a street in Chicago towards the river, dominated by the distinctive round towers of Marina City apartments and offices on the Chicago...

View of Chicago from above, with the Wrigley Building in the foreground, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1940-1970.

Wrigley Building

Young African American children play in an unidentified slum neighborhood of Chicago, 1952.

Kids Playing In Slum Neighborhood

View of the Michigan Avenue Bridge over the Chicago River, Chicago, Illinois, mid twentieth century. Among the visible buildings are at left, th...

Michigan Avenue Bridge & Chicago River

Group of men arrive by Checker Taxi at the 606 Club, a burlesque club at 606 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 1952. Performer Carrie Finnell...

Exterior of a McDonald's drive-in fast food restaurant, which advertises 15-cent hamburgers, Chicago, Illinois.

McDonald's Drive-In

While top GOP officials attended the Republican fund raising banquet, pickets of the CIO union paraded around the building rearing placards and...

Demonstrators Carrying Their Picket Signs

Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is shown as she addresses delegates to the 1956 Democratic National Convention....

Eleanor Roosevelt Speaking at the 1956 Democratic National Convention

Pictured: Owner/trainer Roy Waldron, NBC News' J. Fred Muggs the chimpanzee at the 1956 Democratic National Convention held at the International...

1956 Democratic National Convention

View of the Michigan Avenue Bridge over the Chicago River, 19. To the left are: Sheraton Hotel, the Tribune Tower, and the Wrigley Building. At right...

Michigan Avenue Bridge

theater in chicago - 1950s chicago stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

theater in Chicago

Democratic Presidential candidate and Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver flings his arms in greeting at the Democratic National Convention in the...

Presidential Candidate Estes Kefauver

View, across the Chicago River, of the Merchandise Mart , Chicago, Illinois, mid 20th century.

Chicago River & Merchandise Mart

Winner Babe Didrikson and runner-up Patty Berg at the All-American golf championship at the Tam O'Shanter Country Club, Chicago, Illinois, 1950.

Babe Didrikson And Patty Berg

law offices and boarded up shop, mount greenwood, chicago - 1950s chicago stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Law offices and boarded up shop, Mount Greenwood, Chicago

Passengers preparing to board the California Zephyr train which connected from San Francisco to Chicago, Oakland, California, circa 1950.

Boarding The California Zephyr

Confederate flag is waved at the 1956 Democratic National Convention, where former Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois is nominated for President,...

Confederate Flag at the Democratic National Convention, 1956

Crowd Watching Acrobat Act while Holding "Swing for Ewing Signs" for Candidate Oscar R. Ewing, Democratic National Convention, International...

Crowd Watching Acrobat Act while Holding "Swing for Ewing Signs" for Candidate Oscar R Ewing, Democratic National Convention

1950s SKYLINE VIEW WATER TOWER PALMOLIVE BUILDING ALONG MICHIGAN AVENUE CHICAGO ILLINOIS USA

1950s SKYLINE VIEW WATER

Mrs Mamie Bradley reacts as the body of her son, Emmett Till, is lowered into his grave during the funeral, September 1955. Her son, fourteen year...

Emmett Till Funeral

authentic 1950s christmas tree - 1950s chicago stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Authentic 1950s Christmas Tree

1950s 1960s STREAMLINED BURLINGTON ROUTE RAILROAD TRAIN DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE AT STATION

1950s 1960s STREAMLINED...

The cargo ship Cliff's Victory is towed through Chicago on the Chicago River.

Cargo Ship on Chicago River

Congressman John F. Kennedy smiles and waves at the 1952 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Kennedy that year won a victory over Senate...

John F. Kennedy at the 1952 Democratic National Convention

View of Meyer Litman & Co eggs and poultry section, located at 953 West Fulton Market, Chicago, Illinois, September 29, 1955.

Meyer Litman & Co.

Aerial view of the Maxwell Street market, Chicago, Illinois, September 11, 1965. View is west over Halsted and Maxwell Streets.

Maxwell Street Market

Maxwell Street Market, located on Jefferson Street near 12th Street, Chicago, Illinois, September 1959.

Maxwell Street Market

The male bosses gather for a meeting surrounded by female office support staff in a 1950s era office.

Office scene in Chicago, ca. 1958

Chicago, IL- One solution to the growing traffic congestion problem in the U.S. Has been suggested by designer George F. Miller of Chicago, who...

Flying Saucer Airbus

Los Angeles, CA- Referee Mushyu Callahan motions Sugar Ray Robinson back to his corner after he ko'd Carl "Bobo" Olson in the fourth round of their...

Sugar Ray Robinson Winning Match

Chicago, IL: His man won ! Governor Theodore R. McKeldin of Maryland, the man who nominated General Dwight Eisenhower, lets out a wild whoop after...

Governor McKeldin at 1952 Republican Convention

Chicago, Illinois- Great Danes and German Shephreds, but not bird dogs, are represented as this picket line, calling attention to Secretary of...

Protesters with Dogs and Signs for Unemployed

Chicago, Illinois- Senator Richard M. Nixon, of California, waves his arms in front of the delegation sign from his state during the Republican...

Nixon at 1952 Republican Convention

Congressman John F. Kennedy of Mass., who is expected to make the "Draft Stevenson" motion before the Democratic National Convention points to a...

John F. Kennedy Pointing to a Poster

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