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IN PICTURES: Photos From The Chicago Aerial Photo Services Collection

By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on Jan 21, 2013 10:00PM

We've been spending some time poring over the Chicago Aerial Photo Services (CAPS) collection from the UIC Digital Collections on Flickr. This collection of photos, a series of aerial shots of Chicago and the surrounding areas that would eventually become the suburbs, is an interesting look back at the area from 1929 through the late 1940s, before the postwar population boom.

View the entire collection here.