Maxwell Street Market: Media

open-air market, Chicago

Videos

A trip down Maxwell Street
A great diversity of items—clothing, toys, housewares, tools, furniture, and even...
Video: U.S. Information Agency

Images

Maxwell Street Market
Vendors and shoppers crowding Jefferson Street in the Maxwell Street Market area,...
Chicago History Museum, ICHi-019155; Barnes-Crosby Company, photographer
Fruit-selling on Maxwell Street
Man holding lemons at the Maxwell Street Market, Chicago, circa 1920.
© Jun Fujita, Chicago History Museum—Archive Photos/Getty Images
Shoes, paint and tools, millinery, and watch repair on Maxwell Street
People shopping for shoes at the Maxwell Street Market, Chicago, April 1941.
Russell Lee—Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (fsa 8a29865)
Music at the Maxwell Street Market
Dancing and music with Lil' Pat on Peoria Street between Maxwell Street and 14th...
© Chicago History Museum—Archive Photos/Getty Images
The demise of Chicago's Maxwell Street Market
A backhoe working between building debris and a dumpster along Maxwell Street in...
© Tim Boyle/Newsmakers—Hulton Archive/Getty Images