Chicago's Maxwell Street Market evolved from a 19th century old-world marketplace, and blossomed in the 20th century as Chicago's premier open-air market. Tom Palazzolo, a veteran local filmmaker, has compiled a unique record of this vibrant urban bazaar through photographs and the testimonies of people who lived, worked and visited there. Palazzolo produced a cinéma verité documentary film at the Market in 1983, when activity there was at its height and its ultimate decline was beginning, and a DVD version of this movie accompanies the book.

HARDCOVER: 90pp; 10.5" x 8"

ISBN: 978-0-9789676-1-1

PUBLISHED: November 2008