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Re: Midway Area
Posted by:
Richard Stachowski
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Date: November 04, 2009 07:21PM
ANYBODY KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT A BUILDING ON 63RD WEST OF CENTRAL ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE STREET LIKE A TOWN HALL. i think it's a music school now but it is a very old building in CLEARING.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2009 08:02PM by Richard Stachowski.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2009 08:02PM by Richard Stachowski.
Re: Midway Area
Posted by:
Richard Stachowski
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Date: November 04, 2009 07:58PM
WHAT ABOUT 5722 w. 63rd st. THE CLEARING THEATER OR 5649 tHE tOWN HALL LISTED AS A POST OFFICE in Polk,s directory of 1928-29. Check it out. See them on google street view.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2009 08:06PM by Richard Stachowski.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2009 08:06PM by Richard Stachowski.
Re: Midway Area
Posted by:
Bruce
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Date: November 04, 2009 08:43PM
5722 W 63rd was the site of the original Stickney Township offices. It even says it on the facade. The township offices are in Burbank now.
Bruce
Bruce
Re: Midway Area
Posted by:
Richard Stachowski
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Date: November 04, 2009 09:57PM
5722 was the theater the town hall is a block east as I can see.?????
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2009 10:00PM by Richard Stachowski.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2009 10:00PM by Richard Stachowski.
Re: Midway Area
Posted by:
Bruce
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Date: November 04, 2009 10:31PM
Richard,
Well I guess I haven't mastered Google maps enough yet. My mistake. So what is the building you are interested in? The Town Hall, or some other building?
Well I guess I haven't mastered Google maps enough yet. My mistake. So what is the building you are interested in? The Town Hall, or some other building?
Re: Midway Area
Posted by:
Richard Stachowski
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Date: November 04, 2009 10:59PM
Bruce Wrote:
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> Richard,
>
> Well I guess I haven't mastered Google maps enough
> yet. My mistake. So what is the building you are
> interested in? The Town Hall, or some other
> building?
>
> http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/trma1/Stic
> kneyTownHall.jpg
Yes that's the town hall but across the street a block west is the Clearing theater also called the Majestic theater later. I found that in search.
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> Richard,
>
> Well I guess I haven't mastered Google maps enough
> yet. My mistake. So what is the building you are
> interested in? The Town Hall, or some other
> building?
>
> http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/trma1/Stic
> kneyTownHall.jpg
Yes that's the town hall but across the street a block west is the Clearing theater also called the Majestic theater later. I found that in search.
Re: Midway Area
Posted by:
tlee169
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Date: November 09, 2009 11:02AM
Clearing was annexed to Chicago in 1915 and the Townhall became the American Legion Post with a few offices for many years complete with a 105mm howitzer in the east garden. To the west is the unusual former Standard Oil gas station with opposing bays and half round office. Bedford Park and Chicago Police used to hang out here in the 1950's.
Re: Midway Area
Posted by:
Bruce
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Date: November 09, 2009 03:58PM
I don't have the history of the town hall down real well. It is in the Hill book, but the town hall was the built for the offices of the Town of Stickney, which I guess held the Clearing Village offices too after incorporation. After Chicago took over Clearing, they locked the doors on that building and intended to move city people into it. They seemed to have forgotten that the buulding was the township headqurters also, and not only the village offices. After some contacts were made, the city had to open the building to the township officials once again. When the twonship quit using the building, I do not know.
Bruce
Bruce
Re: Midway Area
Posted by:
paul walenga
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Date: December 13, 2009 03:16AM
Why there and why the odd hoyt/60th place
Re: Midway Area
Posted by:
paul walenga
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Date: December 31, 2009 01:30AM
Clearing school #2 on 55th and central was the original Mark Twain. Byrne was called the Rutherford school as well
Re: Midway Area
Posted by:
Fscott
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Date: January 04, 2015 10:13PM
When I was a kid my uncle had a house built at 57th and Keeler, he called it "the new subdivision". Across the streets to the south and west were just open mud fields, there was nothing there and it indeed looked like a new subdivision.
This was the late fifties.
This was the late fifties.
