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For more than 50 years, Buffalonians on their way through midtown made New Chicago Lunch a favorite destination for folks all around the city.
![[BN] Chronicles: Tony Sisti captures springtime in Buffalo at Albright Art Gallery](https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/buffalonews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/a/0f/a0f62630-b087-11ec-affe-a31a53d13075/6244f28ee185a.image.jpg?crop=1572%2C884%2C0%2C216&resize=1572%2C884&order=crop%2Cresize)
Artist Tony Sisti was a Buffalo character and Allentown institution.
![[BN] Chronicles: Buffalo postcard folder, late 1930s](https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/buffalonews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/88/58846026-9b59-11ec-9d46-137e089d7f1b/6221697a1d568.image.jpg?crop=1827%2C1028%2C0%2C53&resize=1827%2C1028&order=crop%2Cresize)
A postcard folder from the late 1930s gives a unique perspective of how things have changed in Buffalo over the last 80 years.
![[BN] Chronicles: A more peaceful Niagara Square, 1914](https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/buffalonews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/1/c8/1c875c28-7ba0-11ec-96ac-5fb3ed92496b/61ec304e8236d.image.jpg?crop=1682%2C946%2C0%2C142&resize=1682%2C946&order=crop%2Cresize)
Today, the McKinley Monument in the center of Niagara Square is dwarfed by the skyscraper surrounding it – but that wasn’t the case in 1914, just a few years after it was built.
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The popular mayor was seeking re-election to a third term in 1969 when At-Large Common Council Member Slominski blasted her way through the Republican primary to take on Sedita in the November election.
The #BNDrone takes you on an aerial tour over the Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens in South Park.
![[BN] Chronicles: The origins of Buffalo’s Juneteenth Festival, 1976](https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/buffalonews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/4/f8/4f8fc590-cf77-11eb-bce0-d7fafe030fd3/60cb5a6ac0255.image.jpg?crop=1705%2C959%2C147%2C0&resize=1705%2C959&order=crop%2Cresize)
“Juneteenth is not a date or a place, but a spirit,” said Claudia Sims, one of the founding mothers of the event.
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