See Some of the Oldest Known Footage of Chicago [VIDEO]

If you are a frequent visitor to Chicago, or perhaps previously worked downtown, you really should enjoy this rare, early video of the Windy City.

According to the folks at Yestervid, the clip features:

The film features places such as the stockyards and Michigan Avenue as far back as 1896. It also shows early 20th century clips of Theodore Roosevelt, Al Capone and recently discovered footage of the SS Eastland disaster on the Chicago River in 1915...The producers believe they have also identified the previously unknown location of the oldest surviving footage of the Chicago - a short clip of a police parade in front of a now-demolished building in 1896.

And the best part is the video clearly shows dates and maps of where the camera was placed. It's amazing to think about the progress made over just 100 years or so.