Places Edited by Tim Stafford

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.