Maxwell Street Market

This guide to Maxwell Street Market in Chicago follows the open-air bazaar from its start around 1880, when Jewish immigrants fleeing pogroms in Russia, Poland and Romania set up pushcarts here because peddling needed no shop and no license. It traces the market's rise into one of the city's biggest retail districts, then the University of Illinois's arrival next door in 1965 and the years of uncertainty that followed for the landlords and traders working these blocks.