CHICAGO — Before you put on your Sunday best for Easter, check out how some Chicagoans dressed in Easters past.
The photos, courtesy of the Chicago History Museum, show city residents dressed up, heading out of church and preparing to go a big Easter egg hunt.
Enjoy this trip back on an Easter time machine of sorts:
Five young girls dressed for Easter Sunday circa 1962.
Crowds standing outside the Fourth Presbyterian Church, 126 E. Chestnut St. and 876 N. Michigan Ave., for an Easter parade. The view is looking north on Michigan.
Kids getting ready to start a race to hunt for Easter eggs at the Daily News Egg Hunt. Adult spectators are standing in the background.
The Easter Lily Show at the Lincoln Park Conservatory in Lincoln Park. Men standing and caring for the lilies inside the greenhouse.
Men are seen selling flowers on Easter Sunday, 1941, in Chicago. [shutterstock/Everett Historical]
And last, but not least, is this famous photo by Russell Lee, titled "Negro Boys on Easter Morning." Made in 1941, it has a fascinating backstory.
WTTW's Geoffrey Baer said it was made in Bronzeville, one of 400 photos made by Lee and Edwin Rosska, photographers from the federal government's Farm Security Administration documenting the great migration of blacks from the South to the North.
The tall boy in the middle is Spencer Lee Readus, Jr. who fought in the Army during World War 2 and later worked as a plasterer in Chicago, and was a resident of Roseland. He is now deceased, Baer reports.
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