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Ruins of fire-swept building at 4600 South Paulina Street, 16 January 1949
Taking things that don't belong together, pluralistic
futures, simplistic pasts, hoop
dreams, screened-in porches, perfume of flowers
hanging on the night, x-rays, bermudas
memory spies, shadow architectures
spilt down hallways toward
a stair, or door, concealing
a clock ticking away inside the soft skull
of the child not yet born
Wave breaks against icy shore of Jackson Park lake front, 9 February 1941
Eastern sky at end of day from southeast corner of Jackson Park, 20 February 1941
Vacant lot near steel mills, South Chicago, 2 March 1941
Moppet in tears, steel mill district, South Chicago, 2 March 1941
Barber shop and house, 1040-44 Maxwell Street, 1 March 1949
1351 South Sangamon Street, 1 March 1949
Old doors in alley back of 4821 Federal Street, 18 March 1949
Squalid dwellings, once stores, people live in these now, 710-12 West 14th Place, 1 March 1949
Gypsies live here: 620 Maxwell Street, 21 March 1949
Photos of Chicago in the 1940s by Charles W. Cushman from Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection, Indiana University Archives