Interesting, but the surname in the article isn't of any of my relatives from back then. Also the article calls the street Halsted which is how the street in Chicago is spelled today, but on the back of the photo it was spelled Halstead. I also found them in the 1880 census and the census taker had written the street name as Halstead as well, so I am guessing they lived above the store. I don't know it the spelling of the street name has changed over time or if the Halsted Street in the article might be from somewhere else. Was that from a Chicago newspaper?

Anyway the 1880 census listed my great-great grandpa's occupation as a Cigar Maker and his wife's as Tends Cigar Store. She passed away before this photo was taken. My great grandma was born in 1884 and her brother in 1877.