Heading south on Union turning west on Maxwell and then north on Halsted. For the last 50 years Bobby has toured the mid-west and Europe, recording with Wolf Records and the Phat Chance labels.https://www.facebook.com/Smilin.Bobby.Smith/info. Instead, he said the urban bluesmens louder, more aggressive performance was a legitimate way of declaring the Black communitys identity and claiming their place in American society. Chicago Blues Today (Vanguard 3 disc CD set)The original set of 3 LPs was recorded and released in 1965. Home@ HALSTED ST" Two, laughter, mirth, and humiliation, exposing the ludicrousness of vanity and self-righteous propaganda of an adversary were more effective weapons than historical physical confrontation, banishment, dungeons, even jails. I was once a music major; my curiosity piqued, I had to ask him about the music. One, minimal reflection required. In June 1944, the Chicago Maternity Center at the corner of Maxwell Street and Newberry Avenue was surrounded by the open-air market. Chuck Cowdery, A FURTHER NOTE: Keil, a musicologist, was acquainted with Malcolm X and with some leaders in the Black Arts movement of the 1960s. In addition to his lack of sight, he lost a thumb and a finger in a shotgun incident in 1930, but learned to play guitar in spite of the handicap. He recorded a Grammy nominated album Hangin on for Rounder Records with his old friend Robert Lockwood and was featured in Robert Johnson tributes and documentaries. In 2003 he suffered a stroke on-stage, finished the set with one hand, and slowly recovered enough to play occasional festivals after 2010. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/matt-guitar-murphy-mn0000327100, This modern pyro-technical blues guitarist born in Jackson, MS, came to Chicago with his family at age 3 and started playing on Maxwell Street at age 11. He may have been associated with the Johnny Dollar Catfish Stand on Maxwell Street. (Robert MacKay, Chicago Tribune), The scene at 14th Street shows the size of a Sunday crowd at Maxwell Street Market in February 1965. Blues Speak: Best of the Original Blues Annual, edited by Lincoln Beauchamp, U. of Illinois Press 2010. The ridiculed target was instantly recognized and the satirical message immediately understood abetted by brief captions. It could also be stories about the problems, joys and sorrows of peoples daily liveswhat Chicago blues master Willie Dixon called blues: the facts of life., The whole of life itself expresses the blues. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/eddie-taylor-mn0000176673/biography Eddie and his wife Vera, a singer recorded on Wolf Records, raised a brood of Chicago blues musicians: Eddie Jr., blues guitarist and singer; Tim, a drummer; Larry, blues and soul singer and drummer Demetria, blues vocalist; Brenda, hiphop vocalist.Heres Eddie singing Peach Tree Blues (original by Yank Rachell) on the Testament Modern Blues Masters album featuring Floyd Jones on bass, Big Walter Horton harmonica, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jV-SL4ggtY. Sunnyland arrived in Chicago in the early 40s, played at parties with harmonica great John Lee Sonny Boy Williamson I, and picked up his falsetto vocal technique from Doctor Clayton. For twenty years Hildas mother made a go of supporting the family, continually moving addresses in the Maxwell Street area in response to the cost of rent and limited family resources. Born in 1933, growing up in Sunflower, Mississippi, Leon Brooks learned from masters Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller), Elmore James, Boyd Gilmore and Charlie Booker. The Board of Trustees of the Univesity Of Illinois | Privacy Statement. Leroy plays the hypnotic train-rhythm blues Rollin and Tumblin,' a with the Baby Face Trio, Muddy Waters and Little Walter, on the And This Is FreeCD. He played on Bob Dylans Highway 61 album in 1965. A veteran of minstrel and medicine shows, he played banjo, both finger-style and flatpick. He never gave up, continuing to play until his death on a California road trip. The AFB DVDs are compilations of performances from multiple years. Website. Living Blues magazines, 1970-1983: Jim and Amy ONeal founded this magazine, and it gave a close-up view of Chicago blues culture, including the local West Side, South Side and suburban scenes, until the magazine moved to the University of Mississippi, Oxford in 1983. They also have gathered at the annual Chicago Blues Festival, often at street performance areas rather than being featured on the main stages. http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/al-harris/Content?oid=907463 He put a heartfelt, funky West Side spin on soul favorites like Al Greens Love and Happiness and Sam Cookes Change Gonna Come. Harris performed in the Chicago Blues fest in 2008, his last major appearance before he died in January 2009. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-02-01/news/0901310141_1_mr-harris-maxwell-street-singing, Alex Easy Baby Randle, singer, drummer and harmonica player, was born in Memphis. 312-413-3938. About six blocks of the market were eliminated because of expressway construction. Jewtown store owners were only too glad to let them plug in their electric cords, for the music drew a crowd in front of each store. Perkins kept the name Mr. Pitiful and Magic Slim kept the name Teardrops. He collaborated with Texas bluesman Little Son Jackson in 1947, and taught himself to play drums and organ. (Chicago Tribune historical photo), Just because the sign says bananas are 50 cents for 4 pounds doesn't mean a purchase on the Maxwell Street market will be without its bargaining on Sept. 20, 1966. In dollar terms, it becamethe third largest grossing business district in Chicago. Chicago, Illinois . Even as one of the international touring blues recording artists of the day, Walter continued to play Maxwell Street, playing guitar instead of harmonica to avoid conflict with the musicians union. Lalo's on Maxwell Open daily for dine in, take out and delivery! http://www.document-records.com/fulldetails.asp?ProdID=DOCD-5055 He played with Homesick James Williamson (said to be his cousin) and mandolinist Yank Rachell around Tennessee, and was recording in Chicago by 1937. (Chicago Tribune historical photo), Joe Kaplan sells dishes to Mrs. Freida Sawyer at Maxwell and Peoria Streets, circa April 1927. Directions. In U.S. magazines and newspapers in the later 19th century, editorial cartooning on politics and culturelocal, national, internationalbecame a popular comic art form. He played with Howlin Wolf, Memphis Slim, Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, James Cotton, Ike Turner, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Etta James, Chuck Berry and Joe Louis Walker. On their first few albums, the Rolling Stones were essentially trying to duplicate the Chess sound of Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Willie Dixon and Little Walter. By means of exploring multi-disciplinary and multidimensional types of evidence, the project constructs life-size topics of timely interest to working individuals, families, and groups. Please note this is a cashless location (credit, debit, gift cards, dragon dollars or flames fare only) . 10 (October 1909): 4-5. From morning to evening shoppers filled the streets in a bazaar of store-front shops, push carts, fruits and vegetable stands, used-clothing stalls, kosher meat and poultry shops, bakeries, dry goods merchants, vendors of kitchen-wares and notions, shuls (synagogues), tailor-seamstress and shoe repair shops, pawnshops, cheders (schools), mohels (circumcisers), shadchans (marriage brokers), doctor and lawyer offices. For other public safety concerns, contact Metra Safety at (312) 322.7233 or email safetyreporting@metrarr.com. Hildas daughter, Dena Epstein, generously provided the manuscript assembled after Hildas death with editorial comments and family photos. Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool, a perverse Mark Twain said of his participation in the damned human race. But then I am Gods fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.. (773) 941-5857. Settling in Chicago in the mid-1940s, he joined leading artists onstage: Memphis Minnie, Tampa Red, Big Bill Broonzy, and John Lee Sonny Boy Williamson (No. When recorded, the result became not only the dominant form of blues, but a vehicle that radically changed the emerging sound of rock and roll. Sundays, April 3-December 18, 2022800 S. Desplaines St.9am-3pm FREE Admission. Electric guitar, bass and drums held down each small band, accompanied by piano, harmonica and sometimes a saxophone. Many placed their merchandise on stands, but some heaped their toys on the sidewalk to lure purchasers. After a long absence Nighthawk returned to Chicago in 1964 and recorded a blistering set taped live on Maxwell St. with the filming of Mike Sheas 1964 documentary And This is Free. http://nighthawk.sundayblues.org/maxwell.htm. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lv-banks-mn0000122798 Banks son, Tr Banks, also plays guitar and sings, displaying in his work his fathers influence. Onions are served on every sandwich, so if we changed the onion or the cook of the onions, I am certain our customers would notice. On Maxwell Street, a picture in Mike Rowes book Chicago Blues shows he played with John Embry, Long John Wrencher, J.B. Hutto and Jewtown Jimmy Davis. Sunday. UVM Starbucks Heading link Copy link. According to British writer Mike Rowe, he met Blind Arvella Gray one Sunday on Maxwell Street, and saw he was playing with only three fingers and no eyesight. On his own label, L&R (Lippman and Rau), into the 1980s, he recorded many artists in his annual American Folk Blues Festival in Frankfurt, including Chicago blues giants Willie Dixon, Earl Hooker, and Eddie Taylor. In America, the music has evolved to include elements of jazz and Broadway show tunes, in a melting pot just like Maxwell Street. Recording locations are not identified, but Welding and Dayron typically recorded in clubs, homes and on Maxwell Street, rather than in studios, so this is about as real as it gets. Where is the original Maxwell Street polish? An undated photo of the Maxwell Street market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people, http://www.newstips.org/category/maxwell-street/Maxwell Street preservationist Steve Balkin, a Roosevelt University professor, has compiled more information on the Romani people in Chicago: http://sites.roosevelt.edu/sbalkin/roma/, In 1988 my son was ten years old; we went to Maxwell Street looking for baseball cards. In 1979, he was recorded by Bob Corritore, a white harmonica player and documenter of blues, on his Blues on Blues label. 1100 West Harrison Street. He took after his mother and uncle, who both played harmonica. First established in 1939 on the northwest corner of Maxwell and Halsted Streets in the epicenter of Chicago's historic Maxwell Street Market, the stand's Yugoslavian-born founder Jimmy . 02/17/2023 - MenuPix User. Floyd Jones plays Dark Road, c. 1952, on the And This is FreeCD. During the 1970s blues revival, got invited to play in college towns. In a narrow urban space, Maxwell Street matured into a full-service economy. . Harpers swinging version of Every Day I have the blues on a Canal Street Sunday morning in summer 2006. I run 3-5 miles three times a week and play basketball. The sound I heard was coming from an old, beat-up looking boom box. Floyd had his own hard times recovering royalties in court when the rock band Canned Heat borrowed the words to his On the Road Again. (see Living Blues magazine issues 58, 59, winter and spring 1984). Copyright 2017. Maxwell Street + 731 W Maxwell Street . (Davis is seen in the 1981 documentary Maxwell Street Blues directed by Linda Williams. He quit music to work other jobs til the mid-1950s, but then he formed a band, the House Rockers, with drummer Ted Harvey and Brewer Phillips on second guitar. Jimmy Rogers grew up in Vance, MS, where he played in a harmonica quartet with future Chicago buddy Snooky Pryor and learned guitar in his early teens. He married Roberta Peters (another opera star). According to British writer Mike Rowes book Chicago Blues: The City and the Music, Ora Nelle issued only two records: one by the mandolin-guitar duo Johnny Young and Johnny Williams. Broonzy first played fiddle with Papa Charlie Jackson, learned guitar, got a foothold in Chicago nightclubs and in turn mentored other musicians. I'll go back again and again! Maxwell Street is an east-west street in Chicago, Illinois, that intersects with Halsted Street just south of Roosevelt Road.It runs at 1330 South in the numbering system running from 500 West to 1126 West. Born William George Tucker in Tennessee, Barbee worked country suppers and southern juke joints, then moved to Chicago, adopting the name of the legendary Appalachian railroad man John Henry. He was recorded by Wolf Records http://www.wolfrec.com/wolf-artists/johnny-dollar-my-baby-loves-me.html. Eddie C. cut a few sides for local labels in the 60s, and in 1977 released the LP King of the Jungle (Mr. Blues). Larry tells his raw urban story in the book Stepson of the Blues, co-written by his publicist Bonni McKeown, 2010, Peaceful Patriot Press http://www.stepsonoftheblues.com, Todays Chicago Blues, Lake Claremont Press 2007: Karen Hanson, a writing teacher at DeVry University and a relatively new blues fan, made things simple for other newcomers in her guidebook to blues venues and entertainers in the mid-2000s.http://chicagoist.com/2006/06/12/interview_karen_hanson_author of_todays_chicago_blues.php, Rosalind Cummings-Yeates did somewhat of an update for tourists with her own book Exploring Chicago Blues, History Press, 2014, available on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble. Maxwell Street watermelon man, Bob Webb, sets up his watermelon stand at Maxwell and Halsted streets on Aug. 10, 1987. Although music has no boundaries, weve outlined five historical eras. Polish, Russian, and German nationalists hated each other, but they hated the Jews living among them even more. See reviews, photos, directions, phone numbers and more for Maxwell Street Grill locations in Homewood, IL. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-06-11/news/ct-met-piano-red-obit-20130611_1_piano-c-cecil-fain-flat-foot-boogie-band Maxwell Street Foundation sponsored a show featuring Piano C Red at Juniors Lounge on the remodeled street in 2007. Former U.S. Sen. Eugene McCarthy visits Maxwell Street in March 1972. He learned guitar as a boy with Eddie Taylor, left an abusive field boss for Chicago, worked at an iron foundry and began playing in small clubs and on Maxwell Street. View University Village Clinic Maxwell Street in a larger map. He followed David Honeyboy Edwards and then Robert Nighthawk, offering to fill in for a sick drummer one night despite never having played drums before. Jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman, born in 1909, grew up in the Maxwell Street area. The Maxwell Street market, looking toward Halsted Street, on Nov. 21, 1935, after city officials forced merchants to clear the sidewalks of their wares. Pryor served in World War II in the Pacific and then, stationed at Ft. Sheridan, IL , came to Chicago on weekend passes and sat in with Sonny Boy I and Homesick James Williamson at the Purple Cat on Madison St. Moving permanently to Chicago in 1945, he began playing on Maxwell Street. The Maxwell Street parking lot will remain open for UI Health clinic patients and staff and other authorized personnel. Many placed their merchandise on stands, but some heaped their toys on the sidewalk to lure purchasers. He went on to influence Earl Hooker and other guitar players, as well as his son, drummer Sam Carr. It was torn down in the name of progress and urban renewal in 1994 to make way for the University of Illinois Chicago campus. Off the back exit, you'll find a secure private storage room for added convenience. A cold and windy Sunday, Feb. 3, 1974, on Maxwell Street didn't hamper bargain hunters. 60607. In the benediction at the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama, the civil rights leader Rev. To honor these restaurants, Eater Chicago has launched a regular feature called Standing Reservation highlighting some of the more noteworthy stands around the city and suburbs. He taught himself harmonica hearing his upstairs Chicago neighbor, Little Walter Jacobs, practicing. . (Chicago Tribune historical photo), The Maxwell Street market, looking toward Halsted Street, on Nov. 21, 1935, after city officials forced merchants to clear the sidewalks of their wares. He moved to Chicago when he got out of the Army in 1959, staying near a club at 62nd and May where Lovie Lee, Big Walter Horton,Carey Bell, and Nathaniel Applewhite were playing. Vince Lefty Johnson is a multi-talented one man band known on the West Side for fixing computers and as a street musician. Featured on the music disks are Maxwell Street regulars such as Nighthawk, Johnny Young, Carey Bell, Blind Arvella Gray, Jim and Fanny Brewer, and Robert Whitehead. The studies commissioned by Bernheimer for this volume diverged from presenting a single type in a single city, so commonly perceived by outsiders. His success was short-lived. This is how the music spawned on Maxwell Street reached the rest of the world. Cross street. Neither the university nor the Department of Planning has any specifics ready to release, and most Maxwell Street vendors . YEARS IN BUSINESS. They have everything from pork chops to chicken to go! Let Eater know about your favorite street food stand by emailing chicago@eater.com with the subject Street Food.. One of the Deltas most esteemed bluesman, Hooker (cousin of guitarist Earl Hooker) was known for his menacing one-chord drone songs and irregular timing. I got his attention. He recorded for Alligator in 1980, and cut a full album, Lets Go To Town, for the small Blues Over Blues label. The blues wasnt recognized much until the blues singers got a break, till they got a chance [to record], see. These old editions are available on the 8th floor of Chicagos Harold Washington Library, and are likely also to be found in the Bluesoterica archive of former editor Jim ONeal. Moving to the Maxwell Street area in Chicago, he played harmonica and drums and sang blues on the street. He was Assistant Secretary of the Jewish Publication Society of America when he compiled and edited the anthology, The Russian Jew in America (1905). All the old or middle-aged men in the quarter affect this peculiar head gear.. Locations: 1. Well-intended do-gooders as well as stupid alien nationalities and bungling racial buffoons immediately became a threat to well-being. In the U.S. they were often neither bashful nor passive about improving their lives and indeed protesting labor exploitation in the mass production threads and garment business. Theyve continued playing in bands around the city and suburbs. Home of The Jew Town Polish. The guys that played [there] in the 1940s, [myself], Moody Jones, Floyd Jones, Little Walter we built the road for the blues in Chicago for Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf and all the rest. Only once in twenty years did Mrs. Satt enter Hull-House and meet Miss Addams, with Hilda as translator. He worked to expand the complexities of the Jewish character beyond an earlier melting pot for Americanization and assimilation dramatized by Israel Zangwell in Children of the Ghetto (1892). Graduating in the 1970s from Manley High and from East-West University. Les Forgue writes in www.earlyblues.com in 2014,that he sometimes helped pass the tip bucket for John Henry Davis, who claimed the vacant lot on the northeast corner of Maxwell and Newberry. Accompanying him on some of the 24 tracks here areBig Joe Williams, Robert Lee McCoy, Henry Townsend, Yank Rachell, Walter Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind John Davis, Washboard Sam and Charlie McCoy. They previously had other locations, notably on 95th Street for 24 years (claimed by eminent domain as was the original location on Maxwell Street), and briefly at Halsted and Randolph streets . bjb, Twain was a Southerner, not born to tolerance. The market moved east to Canal Street in 1994, when the Maxwell Street area was bought by the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also recorded for Random Records, JOB, and Parrot. A primary objective of this investigation is to tell the story of the compelling role Chicagos West Side played in the making of modern America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an era publicized to the world by Jane Addams and the Hull-House Settlement on Halsted Street. They compromised. Vocalion recorded two of his songs. Back on the West Side, Leon worked with Tail Dragger, Eddie Taylor, Larry Taylor and James Scott at Marys, David & Thelmas Lounge, the Golden Slipper and the Show & Tell. Jim Christopoulos: I am Jim Christopoulos and a co-owner and operator of Jims Original (aka Jims Original Hot Dog, Jims Original Maxwell Street). This is probably the best of them and includes their homage to Chess, 2120 South Michigan Avenue.. A male suspect approached Maxwell Street Express, located at 11600 S. Halsted St., from the south end of the building just before 2:45 a.m. April 17 before shooting at the victim and fleeing the . He loved Maxwell Street: Everything in my house was from Maxwell Street, there were blues bands on every corner although you did have to watch out for the pickpockets down there. She specializes in knowing the holes in the wall where the best soul and blues can be found, and in the areas north of Chicago http://lowreensliveblues.com, For a mainstream guide to blues and blues-rock acts and events in the area, see Linda Cain and Jennifer Nobles Chicago Blues Guide http://www.chicagobluesguide.com/index.html, The Windy City Blues Society website posts clubs, events, and bands http://windycityblues.org/musicians/, Al Harris moved to Chicago from Shreveport, LA in the early 1960s. (Chicago Tribune historical photo), A springtime crowd shops at Maxwell and Halsted streets in the early 1920sas garment workers picket in the background. Ora Nelle launched the career of harmonica master Little Walter Jacobs, and Abrams store was a friendly place for musicians and blues record collectors for years. I play with my guitar, and my foot percussion thing and I have my racked harmonica like Jimmy Reed played. Jimmy and Eddie toured the U.S. and Europe, from Black nightclubs to German auditoriums and southern white fraternities. (Ed Wagner Sr., Chicago Tribune), Crowds gather at the Maxwell Street market, circa March 24, 1964. Adopting the one-chord guitar drone style of John Lee Hooker, he followed his hero to Detroit. Steve Wisners short-lived Mr. Blues label recorded Charles in 1975, later re-issued by P-Vine. Two of the CDs contain music, the third is an interview with Robert Nighthawk conducted by Mike Bloomfield. In his autobiography I Am the Blues, Dixon wrote that he would tell Buddy, Man, put some show into the guitar. Maxwell Street was just a whole way of life, you really cant explain it unless you were there. Twist played with harpist Little Arthur Duncan off and on for 31 years till Arthurs death in 2008. The Bublicks went from Maxwell Street to Halsted Street and eventually to State Street. The Maxwell Street market its principal thoroughfare was just south of Roosevelt Road on either side of Halsted Street was the predecessor of today's suburban flea markets. Bonni McKeown interviewed him in December 2017 for Austin Weekly News: http://www.austinweeklynews.com/News/Articles/1-8-2018/Vince-Johnson-masters-computers-and-guitars-/. Halsted Street from Taylor to Maxwell streets. Later he created his own folk art items such as Maxwell Street crosses and, around 2000, built a wooden Juketown Bandstand at the northeast corner of Maxwell and Halsted, to protest the demolition of 2001. The book comes with a 10-song CD and striking, black and white shots by the late photographer Raeburn Flerlage.http://www.amazon.com/Blues-Legends-Charles-K-Cowdery/dp/0879056886. In the 1990s, Robinson played family parties and barbecues, and in NorthSide clubs like Rosas, Lillys and B.L.U.E.S. On Maxwell Street, From 1959 til 1967, Davis played organ by the service station at 14th and Halsted with drummer Rosie Davis and guitarist Eric Davis. King, Little Arthur Duncan migrated to Chicago with most of his family. Of all the artists produced by Lester Melrose during that period, Big Joe remained closest to his Delta roots. He played the blues as Georgia Tom, often recording with guitarist Tampa Red for Bluebird Records in Chicago. A woman gives a Sunday morning serenade at Maxwell Street and Newberry Avenue in Chicago, circa October 1990. Visitor and Card Access. As a teenager, Horwich worked in Knigsberg, East Prussia. The Maxwell Street Market is a . According to his AllMusic biography by Cub Koda, harmonica player and singer Big John Wrencher was born in Sunflower County, MS, on a plantation. Foster accompanied Little Johnny Jones recording Big Town Playboy in 1949; J.B. Lenoir in 1950, Little Walter in 1948 and 1950, Floyd Jones in 1948, playing drums on Hard Times. Beset by alcoholism, he died at age 35. And he arrived in Chicago in time to visit the Columbian Exposition. Polish sausage. Only a teenager, he joined the Muddy Waters band, had a solo hit with the instrumental Juke, then quit to form his own band. Delmark Records owner Bob Koester, met Big Joe in 1951 and recorded him. SEE MENU BEVERAGES & SIDES. Located on the eastern side at the south branch of the Chicago River with a few industrial buildings, the street moved westward with increasing residential density around Jefferson Street, where outdoor marketing first appeared. Photo printed on Oct. 1, 1993. His hard-hitting, emotion-filled guitar playing drew praise from Chicago Tribune critic Howard Reich and poet Sterling Plumpp: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-04-13/features/9404130169_1_chicago-blues-real-blues-urban-blues Lindsey, a well organized band leader, stocked all kinds of musical instruments in his basement and rented them out reasonably to fellow musicians who lacked instruments or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMoo371JKiE David Lindsey backing Al Harris at the 1993 Taste of Chicago. Born in Tennessee, John Lee Granderson moved to Chicago in 1928 and played with John Lee Sonny Boy Williamson I, among others. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/blind-arvella-gray-mn0000861374/biography. Born in Helena, Arkansas, Bobby Smith moved to Chicagos West Side in 1949, played in small clubs, taking to Maxwell Street Sunday mornings around 1961. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jb-hutto-mn0000777780/biography J.B. took Lil Ed on the road when his nephew was just a teenager, painting a mustache on his face to make him look old enough to get into a club. It's also where scores of blues greats, from Junior Wells to Bo . Through the late 1970s and 1980s he showed up to play at the Delta Fish Market. Today, there is little left of the old Maxwell Street market. 701 West Maxwell Street. According to the original caption, Rayfield was not worried "about the suggestion that the Maxwell St. market be wiped out. A Jewish woman, Hilda Satt Polacheck was born in Poland circa 1885 and migrated to Chicago with her family in 1892. It is also food that has to satisfy customers in all types of Chicago weather, from freezing cold winters to sweaty hot summers. 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