Maxwell Street was one of Chicago’s earliest neighborhoods — its immigrant gateway, its oldest integrated community, a hotbed of entrepreneurial capitalism, the forerunner of the shopping mall, the origin of the Maxwell Street Polish Sausage (Chicago’s signature food) , and the birthplace or urban electric Blues, the precursor to Rock n Roll.
This page is dedicated to preserving the culture of the old Maxwell Street neighborhood by documenting its people and trying to help the New Maxwell Street Market survive.
Increasing Youth Opportunities To Reduce Urban Violence by Promulgating Street Markets
Blues Bus-Maxwell Street Project
https://blogs.roosevelt.edu/sbalkin/bluesbus-maxwellstreet-project/
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Below is the trailer to the documentary film, Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street. I am not in the trailer but am interviewed in the film and served as a technical advisor to it.
Below is an interview with me from Cheat You Fair.
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Searching youtube using the term “Maxwell Street” produced over 80 entries. See:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Maxwell+Street%22&search_type=
Links to other Maxwell Street webpages
Preserve Maxwell Street (an archived website during the fight to save it)
Great video documentary, Save Our Place, made in 1990 by a Maxwell St. resident, Marianne Poulus.
Academic article: The Value of Benefits of a Public Street Market: The Case of Maxwell Street
Maxwell Street Blues Heritage Website – Frank ‘Little Sonny’ Scott Jr.
My Flickr photo blog – mostly about Maxwell Street
Guide to Food at the New Maxwell Street Market (on Canal Street)
Maxwell Street Collection – photo portfolio project
And This Is Free: The Life and Times of Chicago’s Legendary Maxwell St. This classic film in the style of Cinéma vérité is free to watch online on Tubi TV. After the above is finished in 47 minutes, Tubi freely adds, on the same tract, another documentary: Maxwell Street a Living Memory of the Jewish Experience in Chicago .
Cheat You Fair: Maxwell Street Documentary – To rent on Vimeo on Demand $9.99
Tom Smith’s photos and cool Blues-focused slide shows of Maxwell Street
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Posts about the Maxwell Street Market – old and new
The Roar of Irony is Deafening: Statement on Preservation Conference on UIC Campus, Feb. 10, 2012
City Needs New Policy for the New Maxwell Street Market: an Open Letter to Mayor Elect Emanuel
Maxwell Street Maybe Has Already Moved to 41st and Ashland – March 23, 2009
Community Meeting Squashes Free Speech – Attempts to Deny Maxwell Street Market a Voice – November 25, 2008
Fee Hikes To Kill Spirit of New Maxwell Street Market – November 21, 2008
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