History of the 606 http://www.the606.org/about/history/
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These two items; found searching - Mid City Golf Course chicago - at Google Books - https://books.google.com/?hl=en Built in 1924 - - https://books.google.com/books?id=WlQ3AQAAIAAJ&q=Mid+City+Golf+Course+chicago&dq=Mid+City+Golf+Course+chicago&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lr5sVYrHDcafsAXirYGoCA&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAzgK The new Lane Tech HS was built on part of the Mid-City Golf Cours
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Chicago Tribune Lead paint poisons poor Chicago kids as city spends millions less on cleanup http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/ct-lead-poisoning-chicago-met-20150501-story.html#page=1
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b.a.hoarder, Thanks for alerting us to this movie. Despite its artistic liberties, it is an interesting movie; and poor Mrs. O'Leary, to have her name unfairly connected forever more, to the story of the Fire.
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The Cast & Crew of the movie In Old Chicago http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/79100/In-Old-Chicago/
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This may be helpful: Paul J. Cunningham in the Cook County, Illinois Marriage Index, 1930-1960 Name: Paul J. Cunningham Marriage Date: 3 Mar 1959 Spouse: Marion L. Vaile Marriage Location: Cook County, IL Marriage license: {B72F6333-5E65-40D5-A8C8-115CE95CED72} File Number: 2516942 Archive collection name: Cook County Genealogy Records (Marriages) Archive repository location:
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If Walls Could Talk: What Lead Is Doing To Our Students http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2015/04/14/398314591/if-walls-could-talk-what-lead-is-doing-to-our-students Get The Lead Out: Panel Wants Kids' Limits Halved http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/01/05/144743676/get-the-lead-out-panel-wants-kids-limits-halved
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Considering the danger of lead paint and lead paint dust, especially for young children in their homes, what do you estimate its presence in old Chicago homes? http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/cdph/supp_info/food_environ/childhood_lead_poisoningpreventionandhealthyhomesprogram.html
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And also, the Edgewater Beach Apartments . . . living in the pink. http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/edgewater-beach-apartments-coop-sheridan-tish-kling/Content?oid=14383638
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A postcard: Edgewater Beach Hotel, 1930, with an overview. http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2334.html
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rjmachon, Thank you very much for the photos! My Mom visited the hotel in the 20s, which made an impression that she never forgot.
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My memory of the buildings of the Edgewater Beach Hotel is vague, if I ever saw them, since it was closed in 1967; but my mother had fond memories of the hotel when she was very young, and I wish that I could have seen the inside and outside, in detail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewater_Beach_Hotel
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Sharpshooters Park; and winners toasting with steins of beer. https://books.google.com/books?id=fUAemJVc7oAC&pg=PA9&dq=sharpshooters+park&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4l4-Vb71EavLsATT84GoAg&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sharpshooters%20park&f=false
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WayOutWardell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Interesting name-changes. My father lived near > Division & Orleans, and would have gone to Cooley > (fmr. Lane). Somehow, he instead ended up at > (new) Lane, but also took a few classes at > Washburne on Division. My Dad attended the old Lane, and was a member briefly of the ROTC; he said
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thimmaker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can't believe nobody brought up the one on Lane > Tech?? One little motor inside running all four > clocks outside. Just climb up that ladder outside > of the Greenhouse entrance up on the center > roof!!!. Maybe you can't anymore since they added > GIRLS. I graduated from Lane in '56, but never
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Also, for those interested in old Chicago maps; there are a few here; Selected Maps from Special Collections and Archives http://digicol.lib.depaul.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16106coll1 Which includes three unusual and interesting maps of the Chicago River: Map of Chicago River, Ill. : June 30th, 1903 http://digicol.lib.depaul.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16106coll1/id/
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This may be useful: "The Lincoln Park Architectural Photographs consist of 200 historical buildings in Chicago's Lincoln Park Community, and include images of several buildings that are designated landmarks." Lincoln Park Architectural Photographs http://digicol.lib.depaul.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/lpnc1
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Noise in my old neighborhood. "The joyous noise of Old Town past" written for the Tribune in 1971 by Winfred "Win" J. Stracke (February 20, 1908 – June 29, 1991) an American folk musician and co-founder of the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago; about his childhood neighborhood; and mine also; a few decades later. http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1971/12/26/page
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zorchvalve Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Two of my aunts lived on Orchard and their > backyard emptied out onto Pearl Court. Photos that > I have show a line of backyards on the Orchard > side and views of Webster from north Orchard. And > Oz park doesn't do anything for me either. zorchvalve, I would be interested in seeing the photos.
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This may be of interest; building facade decorative sculpture: Chicago Street People: An Architectural Survey by Joseph Korom and Sandra Korom, http://chicagobooks.weebly.com/chicago-street-people.html
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PHILC, thanks for your reply. Two of my elementary school classmates lived in homes on Pearl Court, which I visited in the mid 40s. Pearl Court was located between Dickens and Webster; and about mid way between Burling and Orchard; within the western side of OZ Park; as was the Saint Joseph School of Nursing buildings("Some 1,504 nurses graduated from the school prior to its closing in 196
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Has anyone ever visited Oz Park; if you have, what impression, if any, did it leave with you? http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Oz-Park/ https://www.google.com/maps/place/Oz+Park/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x880fd3112a465479:0xdce64f280638e319?gl=US&hl=en
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This may be helpful: The book, Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870 By Huping Ling https://books.google.com/books?id=g64qYga5hwcC&pg=PA66&dq=chinatown+241+W.+22nd+street+chicago&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XZAWVeaABsq8ggS1x4HIAg&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=chinatown%20241%20W.%2022nd%20street%20chicago&f=false
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I also like this painting: Canal Street by artist Mattie Lietz http://richardnortongallery.com/artists/mattie-lietz/artworks/6721-canal-street And, Richard Stachowski is familiar with this artist (Josef) Pierre Nuyttens; one of Nuyttens' paintings, untitled (East Lake Shore Drive) ca. 1950 http://richardnortongallery.com/artists/josef-pierre-nuyttens/artworks/6791-untitled-east-lake
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And, some 57th Street Art Fair history that I have found; the artist Gertrude Abercrombie, " with her surreal paintings propped up against her ancient Rolls Royce automobile parked at the curb." Three examples of her "surreal" paintings: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/results/index.cfm?rows=10&q=&page=1&start=0&fq=name:%22Abercrombie
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Another Chicago artist, Robert Anderson; that I presume, surely must have exhibited his city scenes in the past, at the 57th Street Art Fair See his painting El Tracks, 1949: http://www.robertaddisongallery.com/Biography.html
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davey7, A definition of privy: ' a toilet located in a small shed outside a house or other building; an outhouse.' For more information see: https://books.google.com/books?id=geRrLVFpLxoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Margaret+Garb&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HWQQVfrzOYybNtHEg6AH&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=privy&f=false
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According to the book: City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919 by Margaret Garb https://books.google.com/books?id=geRrLVFpLxoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=City+of+American+Dreams&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mToQVYCzIYa_ggTWoIQg&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=City%20of%20American%20Dreams&f=false "In 1893, a U.S. Commiss
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Have you ever stepped on the home plate within the Cellular Field parking lot?
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There is a pre-fire building in my old childhood neighborhood in Lincoln Park. Its original purpose was to be a "German School" built by a society of German immigrants in 1857. My grandmother may have attended the school, later church related, as a young immigrant girl. The building is located at 737 West Willow. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=737+West+Willow+Street,+Chicago,+IL&h
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