The great thunder and lightning makers, Machinery building, World's Columbian Exposition.

Tribune Building, cor. Madison & Dearborn Streets, looking east.

Field, Leiter & Co. (later Marshall Field) building.

The Republic Insurance building.

Court House.

Chamber of Commerce.

Court House.

West end of Court House.

Waterworks.

Pivot bridge over Illinois River at Peru (Iron chords and iron turning table.) 310 feet total length.

Chicago The Haymarket Square.

Chicago, Illinois from an airplane

Players of the "Cubs" in dugout before calling of a game of World Series, October, 1929, at Chicago, Ill.

Forging steel into plowshares, plant of Parlin & Orndorf Co., Canton, Ill.

The cheapest eating house in America a warm meal for 5 cts. /

"To whom much has been given much shall be expected" President Roosevelt to students at James Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, June 4th 1903.

President Roosevelt's western tour - speaking at Evanston, Illinois

President Roosevelt's western tour - a speech at Quincy, Illinois

President Roosevelt speaking on the country's currency laws, - at Quincy, Illinois

"No man shall have less than a square deal," - Pres. Roosevelt at Lincoln's Tomb, Springfield, Ill.

G.A.R. men and young citizens in thousands at Rockford, Ill., to hear Pres. Roosevelt speak

Earnest crowds listening to President Roosevelt, Court House Park, Quincy, Illinois

"We have great problems before us as a nation" President Roosevelt dedicating James Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, June 4th 1903.

James Milliken and President Taylor escort President Roosevelt between lines of school children Dedication James Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, June 4th 1903.

"--iron resolution to fight on and on until, instead of defeat and failure, dawns the golden sun of triumph" President Roosevelt to G.A.R., Decatur, Illinois.

From President Roosevelt's special train - looking over the cheering crowds at Mount Vernon, Illinois

Grand banquet given to President Roosevelt at the auditorium by the Iroquois Democratic Club of Chicago, May 10, 1905

East St. Louis after the tornado

Home of Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln lies in state, Springfield, May 1865