Posted by:
PKDickman
(---.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net)
I was looking around the photos and saw something that peaked my interest
In the middle of the photo is the showboat Dixiana.
Apparently, from '34 to '37 it was moored on the Chicago River by the Diversey bridge. (Now behind the Diversey Rock & Bowl)
It was there until Mayor Kelly, outraged over the play "Tobacco Road", chased it out of town.
[url=http://www.whatsnewlaporte.com/2009/12/27/the-saga-of-the-showboat-dixiana/]Dixiana history from LaPorte County, IN[/url]
Ya learn somethin" new every day.