Starring a host of Chicago's favorite photographers and images that date from the 1930s onward, our new exhibition ranges over a half century of artists' responses to the city's longest standing open-air market.
The Maxwell Street Market, with its peculiar nexus of classes and cultures that came together in a carnivallike riot of human interaction, was created by a city ordinance in 1912; to this day it figures prominently in Chicago's history as well as in the hearts and imaginations of countless of its citizens. Photographers and other artists have long had a love affair with the area and its culture and we are pleased to offer an abundant selection of their works on the subject.

Artists in The Last Great Maxwell Street Picture Show include:Gordon Coster, Robert Erickson, Robert Guinan, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Jack Jaffe, Kenneth Josephson, Kaufmann & Fabry, Nathan Lerner, Wayne Miller, George Miller, Marvin Newman, Tom Palazzolo, Marc PoKempner, Ron Seymour, Art Shay, and others…