Wrigley Field

The Federal League's Weeghman Park, home of the Chicago Wales,  is pictured on opening day in 1914. It would eventually be renamed Wrigley Field, and along with Fenway Park, remains to this day as one of the oldest existing baseball stadiums.

Union Station

January 1943 photo of the waiting room in Chicago's Union Station.

A Not So Happy Valentine

In 1929, the St Valentine's Day Massacre would become the most famous of the 200 murders in the city of Chicago between 1927 and 1931. Members of notorious gangster Al Capone's gang, disguised as policemen, raided the headquarters of Bug's Moran's North Side Gang. The seven men were lined up against the garage wall and brutally murdered with sub-machine guns.

The Mother Road

A lonely stretch of old Route 66 winds through Arizona just south of Las Vegas. Route 66, built in 1926, stretches 2448 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles and was the major cross country route at the time.

Richard Speck

Richard Speck is pictured here during his 1966 trial for murdering and raping 8 women in a townhouse in a suburb of Chicago. At 11pm on July 13, 1966, Speck entered the residence, which served as a dormitory for student nurses, and he would depart hours later leaving behind eight slain women. One student, who was visiting for the night, managed to wiggle herself under a bed in one of the rooms and survived the ordeal. Speck was convicted and sentenced to death, but it was later changed to life imprisonment. He died in prison in 1991 at the age of 49.