This volume of Charles R. Childs' Chicago contains dozens of never-before-published photographs of street views in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. The book shows a very different city. Houses in the affluent neighborhoods are still new; the automobile had not yet taken over the streets and the captains of industry
still lived close to downtown. The
city possessed an idyllic atmosphere.
This is the fifth volume of Child's
work and shows many unique
views of ordinary streets not
documented anywhere else.