have cool uniforms.

Funny you should mention that, about the woman walking the dog, lesle, when there’s a post, a mere two days later, Newton: 1900, also of a scene from circa 1900, which includes a man walking a dog.

Woman walking dog, front and center. First time I think I've seen this in Shorpy.

The tallish building on the north (right-hand) side of Van Buren Street, midway between Michigan Avenue and the L tracks on Wabash Avenue, is the 11-story Steinway Hall. Designed by Dwight Perkins and completed in 1896, it housed showrooms and a theater for the Steinway & Sons piano company. In the 1890s and 1900s, the top floor housed the offices of a large number of progressive architects, including a young Frank Lloyd Wright. The building was demolished in 1970.

Wouldn't that be a terror to have to navigate that iron ladder in the dead of winter.

The test: How many buildings can you name unaided? (You're allowed to enlarge the photo.)

My picks are the Fischer Fisher Building (the tall building down the street, extant) and the Public State Safety Building (aka: Rothschild's, later Goldblatt's ... long departed). If I were an actual Chicagoan, I would, of course, have recognized the building on the left (Chicago Club, collapsed 1928) rather than slap my forehead in frustration afterward.