Chicago history is once again on the auction block as the Illinois State Treasurer’s Office has started its annual auction of unclaimed items.
This year’s lot includes a number of extreme unique keepsakes. They include admission tickets to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair; football cards that include ones of Hall of Famers Troy Aikman, John Elway and Marshall Faul; basketball trading cards that include ones for Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant; and 1918 Illinois centennial Lincoln half dollar.
There are also lots of other coins, jewelry, lighters, pocket knives, and rare paper currency to bid on…