chicago history

The Forgotten Street That Ran CHICAGO (And Then Disappeared!) We dug into the brutal, chaotic history of Solon Place in 1905, a single block where all of Chicago collided. This tiny street was headquarters to political boss Dudley Solon, but it also hosted the famous Kosher Meat Riot, housed...

Until I did some research and found that Chicago wasn't completely safe and happy on the streets, I can't upon a neighborhood in Chicago that they used to refer to as Little Hell. It was a neighborhood in the late 19th century and early 20th that newspapers and politicians and everybody referred...