Every afternoon, while she eats her lunch, Flo also watches over her Southwest Side neighborhood, near 71st and Kedzie, through her dining room window. ©Lloyd DeGrane / CITY 2000
After spending the first 90 years of his life in the city, Chicagoan Mike Niksic is leaving his home at 107th and Ewing for Shelbyville, IL, where he will take up residence with his son and daughter-in-law. Mr. Niksic, who worked for many years at one of the East Side steel mills, reminisced over family photos from the 1930s (at his feet). ©Lloyd DeGrane / CITY 2000
Gathering the family around the dinner table is an important daily event in the Johnson household. Dinner time is 5:30, so the family can finish in time to catch Pat and Vanna on TV’s Wheel of Fortune. Serving the home-cooked meal are parents Todd and Susan; seated are the eldest, son Kyle, 12, and his sisters Kjerstin, 10, and 7-year-old triplets, Katherine, Kari and Kelsey. ©Lloyd DeGrane / CITY 2000
Residents of the City that Works dress up, and down, for the duties they take on every day. ©Lloyd DeGrane / CITY 2000
Residents of the City that Works dress up, and down, for the duties they take on every day. ©Lloyd DeGrane / CITY 2000
Residents of the City that Works dress up, and down, for the duties they take on every day. ©Lloyd DeGrane / CITY 2000
Residents of the City that Works dress up, and down, for the duties they take on every day. ©Lloyd DeGrane / CITY 2000
