Chicago Queer History: State Street

State Street is Chicago’s Main Street and Queer Chicagoans have long used it for a variety of purposes. Learn about sex work in the city’s “Levee District” in the first decade of the 20th Century, a tattooing college professor who helped shape the city’s leather scene, 19th century male and female impersonators who where the toast of the town and other stories of Chicago Queer History.