Michigan Avenue and Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1929. Artist: Unknown

---

Michigan Avenue and Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1929. Postcard. View looking north with the Old Chicago Water Tower visible on the left. Designed by William W Boyington, the Chicago Water Tower was built in 1869 to hold water for firefighting. It was the only public building in the affected area to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Today it serves as a visitor centre for the Chicago Office of Tourism.

---

Size: 2578px × 4111px
Location: World,North and Central America,United States,Illinois,Cook,Chicago
Photo credit: © Curt Teich Postcard Archives/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1920s, 19th, 20th, america, american, architecture, archives, automobile, avenue, boyington, building, buildings, car, cars, century, chicago, city, cityscape, color, colour, country, curt, illinois, lane, location, michigan, motor, nineteenth, office, photograph, postcard, road, skyscraper, states, street, teich, tgn, tower, traffic, transport, transportation, twenties, united, unknown, usa, water, william, ww