Northwest Chicago Historical Society

The new terminal extended the Blue Line from Logan Square when it opened on Jan. 30, 1970.

Shep the police dog went on patrols and helped catch train robbers before his death in 1905.

"We were pelted with hail stones as big as pigeon eggs,” one witness said in the storm's aftermath.

Starting in 1886, the avenue hosted an annual bicycle race from suburban Wheeling into the city.

The train station was built to bring milk from local dairy farms into the nascent city of Chicago.

The Mayfair Railway Yards used to help bring supplies into Chicago State Hospital in Dunning.

A liquor moratorium spanned Northwest Highway in Norwood Park from 1947 to 2005.

Throwback Thursday: Before pools were built at Portage Park, neighbors flocked to a lagoon there.

Elijah Wentworth opened the Wentworth Tavern in present-day Jefferson Park in 1830.

The footage includes Revolutionary War re-enactors and some defunct neighborhood groups.

The mansion, 4705 N. Milwaukee Ave., is now wedged between two storefronts and covered in trees.

The city's Commission on Chicago Landmarks published a step-by-step guide for property sleuths.

"Even then it seemed like a disaster waiting to happen," Frank Suerth said, remembering the structure.

A woman on trial in 1932 managed to persuade a court that her Higgins Avenue home was haunted.

Volga Germans were among the area's first inhabitants, and many of their descendants still live there.