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Forgotten Illinois Central RR Stations
Posted by:
Paul Petraitis
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Date: November 15, 2013 12:45AM
The IC really started cutting back on commuter service service north of Hyde Park after the Race Riots of 1919, any data on when 35th st went down fer instance? Also there's a couple vanity stops, one at 18th (for George Pullman's personal car) and @ 126th St called Wildwood (for George's business partner col. James H Bowen) and even one at 123rd for a huge beer garden called Gardner's Park that from 1880 to about 1900 served as many as 3000 picnic-ers at a time! Any IC experts out there?
Re: Forgotten Illinois Central RR Stations
Posted by:
Paul Petraitis
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Date: November 15, 2013 12:46AM
Yes I know about the IC Historical Society and the Hyde Park Historical society...
Re: Forgotten Illinois Central RR Stations
Posted by:
WayOutWardell
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Date: November 15, 2013 02:06AM
The IC accounting office building and station at 63rd was demolished some time in the late '80s, although there are still some beams visible on the embankment side where the church parking lot is now.
I read somewhere once that the Marquette & 67th St. commuter stations were closed by 1965. They still exist, boarded up, and I assume looked much like the one that still operates at 59th St.
I read somewhere once that the Marquette & 67th St. commuter stations were closed by 1965. They still exist, boarded up, and I assume looked much like the one that still operates at 59th St.
Re: Forgotten Illinois Central RR Stations
Posted by:
Paul Petraitis
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Date: November 15, 2013 12:05PM
Let's not forget how wonderful it used to be to set down at the huge wooden counter at the old Van Buren station (ca. 1960) and order some food whuile waiting for your train. After all Van Buren WAS the official downtown commuter station for all those years, until the Prudential Building (1955) changed all that...
Re: Forgotten Illinois Central RR Stations
Posted by:
davey7
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Date: November 15, 2013 02:10PM
Aren't Marquette and 67th the same street at points?
Re: Forgotten Illinois Central RR Stations
Posted by:
Richard Stachowski
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Date: November 16, 2013 12:18AM
[b]Yes they are. I think there is a depot at 63rd at he tracks east of lawndale. I was for a while a lounge.[/b]davey7 Wrote:
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> Aren't Marquette and 67th the same street at
> points?
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> Aren't Marquette and 67th the same street at
> points?
Re: Forgotten Illinois Central RR Stations
Posted by:
WayOutWardell
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Date: November 16, 2013 11:54AM
davey7 Wrote:
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> Aren't Marquette and 67th the same street at
> points?
Yeah, it gets confusing. It runs 6700 S., and then east of the Ryan at Eberhart (500 E.), it turns north and takes over Eberhart for a block, then heads east again along 66th and continues through Jackson Park, ending at South Shore Drive and 67th. So, there are two places within a block where the intersection is Marquette Rd. and Marquette Rd.
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> Aren't Marquette and 67th the same street at
> points?
Yeah, it gets confusing. It runs 6700 S., and then east of the Ryan at Eberhart (500 E.), it turns north and takes over Eberhart for a block, then heads east again along 66th and continues through Jackson Park, ending at South Shore Drive and 67th. So, there are two places within a block where the intersection is Marquette Rd. and Marquette Rd.
Re: Forgotten Illinois Central RR Stations
Posted by:
davey7
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Date: November 19, 2013 04:45PM
WayOutWardell Wrote:
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> davey7 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Aren't Marquette and 67th the same street at
> > points?
>
>
> Yeah, it gets confusing. It runs 6700 S., and
> then east of the Ryan at Eberhart (500 E.), it
> turns north and takes over Eberhart for a block,
> then heads east again along 66th and continues
> through Jackson Park, ending at South Shore Drive
> and 67th. So, there are two places within a block
> where the intersection is Marquette Rd. and
> Marquette Rd.
That's what I thought - thanks.
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> davey7 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Aren't Marquette and 67th the same street at
> > points?
>
>
> Yeah, it gets confusing. It runs 6700 S., and
> then east of the Ryan at Eberhart (500 E.), it
> turns north and takes over Eberhart for a block,
> then heads east again along 66th and continues
> through Jackson Park, ending at South Shore Drive
> and 67th. So, there are two places within a block
> where the intersection is Marquette Rd. and
> Marquette Rd.
That's what I thought - thanks.
