murphman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Having been closed when I was two, and always in > the area these days I wonder if anyone can tell me > where the main entrance was. Near as I can figure > it was just south of Roscoe on Western. Im curious > as to the exact location. In 1916, the Chicago Daily News had given the address of the Riverv
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frederickus54, It is interesting to note that in the book -- History of Chicago, Volume 1 by Alfred Theodore Andreas (1884-86 edition) -- the author mentions, under "Street Nomenclature", a street named: "Dinet, after J.Dinet (this street is extinct)". In the 1863 map of Chicago: shows Dinet Street: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/collections/maps/chifire/G4104-C6-1863-V
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Richard Stachowski Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks for the information. I wondered about that > building and when wa it taken down. I don't think > there is a trace of it left. Richard, Wentworth's farmhouse was torn down in 1968.
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While on my first reconnoiterer of my new neighborhood on a Halloween night in 1952, I happened to walked past a two-story frame house on the northeast corner of Harlem Avenue and 55th Street. I stopped and lingered awhile to look at this strange and startling large house; every room of which had its lights on, but the house appeared to be unoccupied. I was puzzled then by this house that seemed o
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To add to the mystery, Myrick's Tavern "the Bulls Head", on Cottage Grove Avenue, near 29th Street. Willard F. Myrick owned land between 26th and 31st streets, near the lake shore, and fenced-in an area for livestock; later called the Sherman Stockyards in 1856.
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In 1848, Matthew Laflin bought land, and laid out the city's first stockyard, and set up a Bull's Head Tavern and hotel for the convenience of cattlemen. So, perhaps the location of this stockyard and hotel may be the origin of "Bullshead".
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Northwest Chicago Historical Society http://www.nwchicagohistory.org/index.html NW Chicago Historical Society's photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nwchicagohistory/ http://www.flickr.com/groups/nwchicago/pool/
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When I was a little kid, I enjoyed the pellet rifle shooting galleries the most; and thought that Aladdin's painted face on his castle was creepy. And, the African-American men employed by Riverview to sit above a water tank, taunting one to throw a baseball at a nearby target to release a lever to dunk them, a cruel act for a kid.
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Yes, I remember Riverview, during the 40s, in the company of my parents; and also in the mid 50s, especially the sounds of the Bobs and the screams from its riders, wafting through the opened classroom windows at Lane Tech H. S., on a warm day. ;-)
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Chicago History in Pictures Photographs from the Chicago History Museum Collection http://chicagohistorymuseum.tumblr.com/
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One of my all-time favorite Chicago photographs --- c.1893, at the World's Columbian Exposition http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/chicagocabinet
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jd Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is the Tip Top Tap the same place as "The Clouds > Room high atop the Allerton Hotel"? The Clouds > Room was where Dom MacNeill broadcast the national > radio show "The Breakfast Club" for 2 hours each > morning Monday through Friday for decades. He had > an orchestra and famous guest
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Yes, sometime in the mid 60s. I presume that I was trying to impress my girl friend at the time. At the very top of the Tip Tap Top we saw a theatrical play -- I can't remember the details -- and after the play, while waiting for the elevator to return us to ground level, we were surrounded by what appeared to be, women dressed in play-boy costumes. It's all true. ;-)
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To breathe some of the atmosphere of Chicago in years 1927-1928, read may be interested in reading about a mayor of Chicago in that era, William Hale Thompson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hale_Thompson
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adgorn, Thanks for your research discovery. I had vaguely remembered the 65th street location from an Internet story that I read two decades ago, but was reluctant to trust my memory from so long ago. I've driven along 65th, in that general area, many times in my past. In the old 1924 photograph of the buildings and the experiment's pipe assemblies, wooden telephone/power-line poles are show
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SRO hotels closing: http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-muckrakers/2012/11/lakeview-bob-zuley/ http://www.chicagohomeless.org/chicago-sun-times-mark-brown-interesting-people-live-in-citys-cubicle-hotels/ http://www.chicagohomeless.org/cubicle-hotels-would-improve-conditions-or-shut-down-under-proposal/ http://lakeview.patch.com/topics/SRO
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Milwaukee Avenue Bank during a bank failure in 1906. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cdnquery.html search: Milwaukee Avenue Bank
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The J. P. Smith Shoe Co. Factory Built c. 1912 Architect: Horatio Wilson Has been placed on the NATIONAL REGISTAR OF HISTORIC PLACES By The United States Department of the Interior http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidwilson1949/6585371167/
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This too may be helpful. In the book -- Historic City: The Settlement of Chicago (published by the City of Chicago in 1976) community settlement maps show the locations of approximate ethnic settlements: 1860 --- Swedish in the area of Chicago/Milwaukee/Ogden. 1870 --- Norwegians in the area of the SW corner of Milwaukee/Halsted. 1900 --- Italians in the area at, and south of Grand/Mil
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Perhaps this is well known to Forgotten Chicago, but I just discovered it. "The Research Center provides access to many resources for those researching architecture and building history." http://www.chicagohistory.org/research/resources/architecture http://chicagoancestors.org/#tab-tools
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"Mary Gates Dawes Hotel for needy women, located on the east side of South Throop Street just south of West Jackson Boulevard (1917) --- The hotel was erected by Charles G. Dawes (Vice-President of the United States from 1925-1929) in honor of his mother." Search: Mary Gates Dawes Hotel and Rufus F. Dawes hotel http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/ "In memor
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Camp Douglas Restoration Foundation http://www.campdouglas.org/
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Haymarket memorials: May 30, 1889 --the statue was unveiled in Haymarket Square. May 4, 1927 -- a streetcar jumped its tracks and crashed into the monument. 1928 -- the city restored the statue in 1928 and moved it to Union Park. 1956 -- the statue moved to a special platform overlooking the Kennedy Expressway, near its original location. May 4, 1968 -- the statue van
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McCormick Works http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/results.asp?keyword1=mccormick&keyword2=reaper+works&search_field1=collection_name&search_type=advanced&sort_by=date&boolean_type1=and http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images.wisconsinhistory.org/700003050960/0305010353-l.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullimage.asp?id%3D87013&h=382&
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b.a.hoarder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Maybe my post wasn't real clear, the original > owner of the property was the McCormick factory > and at some point it was sold to Mr. Wozniak. I > was trying to point out that like the "Company > Houses" mentioned by Roadway they also owned the > Blue Island building. My bad, I should h
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There was also a restaurant located on the west side of Western Avenue, and just north of Blue Island, that seemed to be popular with the farm tractor engineering department personal; that was nestled within in the Tractor Works plant in the late 50s . . . which in my experience, was located midway between Western Avenue and California at 31st Boulevard.
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You can search Cook County Assessor's Office http://www.cookcountyassessor.com/Property_Search/Property_Search.aspx
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What items do you imagine are in the time capsule?
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Historic Aerials 1938 and 1955 photographs http://www.historicaerials.com/
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WayOutWardell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How about a FC archaeological dig? I'm in! Great idea. My guess it's within those clump of trees on the NE corner . . . looking at the Google street view. See: Robinson's Atlas of the City of Chicago, 1886 Volume 3, plate 6 Within the area bounded by the River NB, Kinzie Street, Water Street and W.In
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