Why Chicago’s Maxwell Street Polish Left the Street It Was Named For

Chicago's Maxwell Street Polish is named after a street it had to leave. This documentary follows the grill on the corner of Maxwell and Halsted, from a hot-dog stand at the heart of the city's Sunday market to the expressway, the university campus and the decisions that moved the market, and then the stand, off the street. Chapters 0:00 Introduction 1:26 Seven Dollars 5:08 The Stand That Never Closed 9:28 Plugged Into the Windows 13:05 Cut in Half 15:00 The Site Nobody Picked 18:28 And This Is Free 21:00 Half a Mile 24:35 Nate's Last Batch 27:48 Around the Corner 31:12 Two Weeks Image credits Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division (Russell Lee, FSA/OWI; Historic American Buildings Survey) Library of Congress, American Folklife Center (Jonas Dovydenas, Chicago Ethnic Arts Project) University of Illinois Chicago Library (Hull-House Collection; Richard J. Daley Era Photographs; Special Collections) Chicago Public Library (Chicago Department of Urban Renewal Records) Curt Teich Postcard Archives, Newberry Library Google Earth imagery: Google Aerial imagery: USGS / USDA NAIP Licensed photos via Flickr and Wikimedia Commons, modified: CC BY 2.0: Paul Sableman, Payton Chung, David Wilson, Phillip Capper, Chris Eaves, John VanderHaagen, Stephen Hogan, jeffreyw, chicagocrimescenes, Alan Levine, Carl Lender, Elvert Barnes, John Lodder, John Tuggle, Neil Conway, Travis Isaacs CC BY 2.5: IvoShandor CC BY 3.0: Tamorlan CC BY-SA 2.0: Victor Grigas, Warren LeMay, artistmac, stu_spivack, theeerin, Edsel Little, Alfred Lui, Jean-Luc Ourlin, Roger W, Señor Codo, Markus Trienke CC BY-SA 3.0: Arturo Duarte Jr., Factchexocd CC BY-SA 4.0: Warren LeMay, Victor Grigas, JDWassmann, Michaelklump1, Claus Ableiter, Europe guitar collection, Hahaimsofunny194467, Maksym Kozlenko, Trude Bergheim Mikkelsen Maps use data from the City of Chicago Data Portal. The City of Chicago makes no claims as to the content, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of the data.