IN PICTURES: Photos From The Chicago Aerial Photo Services Collection

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

$\<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/uicdigital/8024779976/in/set-72157624360682895\"\>Harper to Lake front, 48th to 55th, Model yacht basin CAPS_1931_11793_G1, Thorn Creek North Creek Forest Preserve #11793_G1, Chicago Aerial Photo Services Collection, CAPS Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)\<\/a\>\r\n$ $\<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/uicdigital/5662260890/in/set-72157624360682895\"\>Rock River, September 1938, CAPS_1938_18595_16, Severson and McCormick Farms #18595_16, Chicago Aerial Photo Services Collection, CAPS Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)\<\/a\>\r\n$ $\<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/uicdigital/8024782763/in/set-72157624360682895\"\>Washtenaw to Wolcott, 37th to 43rd including McKinley Park, CAPS_1931_11793_G1, Thorn Creek North Creek Forest Preserve #11793_G1, Chicago Aerial Photo Services Collection, CAPS Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)\<\/a\>\r\n$ $\<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/uicdigital/5662257082/in/set-72157624360682895\"\>Skokie Lagoons, April 1935, CAPS_1935_15164, Skokie Lagoons #15164, Chicago Aerial Photo Services Collection, CAPS Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)\<\/a\>\r\n$ $\<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/uicdigital/8024779410/in/set-72157624360682895\"\>Montrose Beach and Harbor, CAPS_1931_11793_G1, Thorn Creek North Creek Forest Preserve #11793_G1, Chicago Aerial Photo Services Collection, CAPS Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)\<\/a\>\r\n$ $\<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/uicdigital/8024781099/in/set-72157624360682895\"\>Morton Arboretum, CAPS_1935_15164, Skokie Lagoons #15164, Chicago Aerial Photo Services Collection, CAPS Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)\<\/a\>\r\n$

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.

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