Maxwell Street
When I was 11 and my brother 13, our father took both of us down to the Maxwell Street to buy us each a suit. Etched in my memory is walking up a flight of creaky wooden stairs and entering a room full of racks and racks of suits. We each had the overwhelming task of picking one out.
In the 1970’s when my father was gone and I was grown and starting my career as a photographer I moved into the adjacent Pilsen neighborhood. I found the Maxwell Street market to be a great help in rehabbing and furnishing the space I had rented. It was only a few blocks away and I went there almost every Sunday morning.
In the 1980’s my friend Krystin Grenon and her Partner Robert ,TuT, Tutman owned a loft building with a view of Maxwell Street. I went up on the roof to photograph the activity of the market. That same day I walked through the streets and snapped a few slides.
Into the 1990’s when the University of Illinois, Chicago was buying up all the Market property, I was hired by a preservation company where my friend worked to document the area and all of it’s buildings.
Halsted Street Looking SE 
Frank Little Sonny Scott ©2000 
Little Sonny Scott Jr.DJ ©2000 
Maxwell Street Market ©2000 
Shoe Vendor ©2000 
Blues Bus ©2000 
B/W 120 Jimmie Lee Robinson ©2000 
Jimmie Lee Robinson on the protest of the destruction of the market. 
Marcos Raya and Pals ©1996 
On the way from my house to the Sunday Maxwell Street Market ©1987 
Maxwell Street Market ©2000 
Jesse's fire Maxwell Street 1998 
Art Marcel Maxwell Street ©1996 
Nates Deli on Maxwell Street 
Nate's Deli 1996 
Lee's Cut Rate Beauty Supply ©1995 
Lee's Cut Rate Beauty Supply ©1995 
Maxwell Street 
Maxwell Street 
Movies, Incense and Underwear ©2000 B/W 120 
Maxwell Street ©1996 
Century Fashions Halsted Street©1996 
Jim's Original Halsted and Maxwell ©1996 
Breyers Demolition Maxwell Street 2000 copy 
Piano Maxwell St. ©2000 for City 2000 
Arturo and Rocky ©1991 
Wheels and Hubcaps ©1991 
Last Days of the Old Maxwell Street Market ©1987 
Last Days of the Old Maxwell Street Market ©1987 
Last Days of the Old Maxwell Street Market ©1987 
Last Days of the Old Maxwell Street Market ©1987 
Last Days of the Old Maxwell Street Market ©1987 
Last Days of the Old Maxwell Street Market ©1987 
Last Days of the Old Maxwell Street Market ©1987 
Last Days of the Old Maxwell Street Market ©1987 
Last Days of the Old Maxwell Street Market ©1987 
Last Days of the Old Maxwell Street Market ©1987 
Last Days of the Old Maxwell Street Market ©1987 
Last Days of the Old Maxwell Street Market ©1987 
Halsted View Looking NE 
Jim's Original, Israel Surrillo Maxwell and Halsted ©2000 
Last Days of the Old Maxwell Street Market ©1987 
Tyner White at Maxwell Street with salvaged bricks. © 
Tyner White in his studio/apartment on Maxwell Street ©2000 
Tyner White with Coil ©2000