Market
Maxwell Street Market
Open-air bazaar of pushcart peddlers turned Chicago blues birthplace, later swallowed by campus expansion.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Maxwell Street Market in Chicago is set on a Sunday-morning corner of Halsted Street, where Black musicians who had left the Jim Crow South played for the crowds of vendors. You'll meet Muddy Waters, Little Walter and Bo Diddley, and the university that arrived next door in the nineteen sixties. Best heard standing on the corner itself, with the traffic on Halsted around you.
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