When I was 12 years old I asked my father for an allowance. Without hesitating he said “sure”. The next thing I knew I had a part-time job at a body shop a few blocks from our house, across the Des Plaines River in suburban Chicago....

Maxwell Street first appears on a Chicago map in 1847. The street was named for a Chicago physician by the name of Dr. Philip Maxwell. It was originally a wooden plank road that ran east-west from the south branch of the Chicago River. The...