Birds eye views of Chicago, 1931 & 1938: Chicago. The Greatest Inland City in the World. 1938 http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~263083~5524050:Chicago--The-Greatest-Inland-City-i?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=q:chicago;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=0&trs=
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For those who are interested in Chicago History; an especially good read, in my opinion; and available in an Electronic Edition -- City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America by Donald L. Miller (Copyright 1996, 2014)
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Stories, photos, and videos together on the World's Fair Tumblr site. http://wondersoftheworldsfair.tumblr.com/
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davey7 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Isn't the gas station on the northwest corner? My error. The Google View of the Shell station is on the Northeast corner; the station where, to my embarrassment, in the mid 60s, I had to buy a container of gasoline when my car ran out of gas. ;-). The Fifth - Third Bank now occupies the Southwest corner, and where Goog
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The Google Street View shows a Shell station on the Southwest corner. And although I don't remember the Petite Lounge from my past, I do remember a bait shop in the 1940s that was located on North Avenue just west of the old building at the SW corner and a narrow alley-way that can still be seen in the Google view. That location brought back the memoriess of my father stopping at the bait shop on
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A suggestion: The Newberry Library at http://www.chicagoancestors.org/#tab-tools has Chicago City Directories for the years 1910 and 1923. In those two directories, you may find the address of the fire station listed in the beginning pages of the directory. And, since it was near the corner of Clinton (540 West) and Washington (100 North), the old address should be near one or the other street nu
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And also, the first frame house in Chicago was built for Billy Caldwell, also called "Sauganash", by the United States government on Wabash (was Cass) a little south of Chicago Avenue. Caldwell's father was Irish and mother Potawatomi Indian; according to Indians of the Chicago Region by Charles S. Winslow (Copyright 1946).
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Items found in the Encyclopedia of Chicago: http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/ Ancient Indian Earthworks in the Chicago Region http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/3701.html Indian Settlement Pattern in the Chicago Region, circa 1830 http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/3700.html Native Americans http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org
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And, there may still be some artifacts lying about from the 1835 Indian Farewell War Dance. See page 110 of The Story of Chicago by Joseph Kirkland (1892): http://books.google.com/books?id=9EUVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=joseph+kirkland&hl=en&sa=X&ei=h7lfU42JJ4KpyAT_2oGQBw&ved=0CFQQ6AEwBQ#v=snippet&q=Indian%20war%20dance&f=false
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About what year was this property in existence; before the 1909 street numbering changes? Also, street names and locations change with the passage of time.
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Do you have a favorite poem about Chicago? One of my favorites: Picnic Boat by Carl Sandburg. http://books.google.com/books?id=_kEDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=carl+sandburg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=c2tNU9WhGurWyQH8xoGwBw&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q=picnic%20boat&f=false
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I thought this would be of interest to the FCF. " This film footage was discovered at an estate sale on the South Side. It's a film produced by the Chicago Board of Education during the late 1940's to highlight the city. It's an incredible snapshot of what the city looked like almost 70 years ago". ( film is 32 minutes in length) http://bigjohnandamy.com/2014/04/a-glimpse-of-chica
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You can search the Chicago City Directories. http://www.chicagoancestors.org/#tab-tools
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bowler Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you are interested, a filmed version of our > program is available at: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv-9hm6YYbw bowler, Thank you for posting this. I viewed the entire latest video; it had a special interest to me.
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Thank you for your reply Elaine W; The immigrants, and others, who were lured to Chicago for jobs, must have had hard times surviving.
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davey7 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Developers - not so different from today, just on > a much smaller scale and more fragmented, i.e. > land was sold to builders rather than one entity > doing both (oversimplified of course, but general > idea). Investors bought the houses and rented them > out, people with cash saved bought (the modern
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Maybe the answer to this question is too oblivious and simple to ask; but who built, and owned, the homes that many immigrants lived in when they arrived in Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? I presume the canal workers in the early days, were offered land or money by the government to settle along the canal route and present day Bridgeport; and a new wave of immigra
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An 1868 pocket map of Chicago with a moveable "spyglass" of present-day aerial views. What Did Chicago Look Like Before the Great Fire? http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-did-chicago-look-great-fire-180947929/
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Started in 1949, on WMAQ-TV, "Walt's Workshop". Walter E. Durbahn, a Highland Park high school manual training teacher and the star of television's first "how to do it program". Always fun to watch.
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Some old photographs of St. Joseph and St.Anne church; ca. 19003, 1911, 1912 Search: St. Joseph and St.Anne church http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/
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I would be interested to know about the Norwegian schoonermen in Chicago's maritime story.
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This may be helpful, two Mayfair schools are listed on this map: School map of Chicago - year 1914 http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/collections/maps/chi1900/G4104-C6E68-1914-C7.html
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Mr Downtown Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I try to aggregate all the historic Chicago maps > at chicagoinmaps.com Thanks Mr Downtown, I am most interested in it!
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bowler Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Some other great map sites: > > University of Chicago Map Collection: > > http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/collections/maps/ > > > Enclopedia of Chicago Map Collection: > > http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/7 > 00011.html bowler, I agree. And here is another rece
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When I was a kid in the summer of 1950, my uncle took me to the Dime Pier, which is now barely visible above the lake waters, located between the Lock and Navy Pier, for a fishing expedition. My uncle sat at the pier's edge to fish, where ships' could be easily seen entering the Lock. I didn't know at the time, but I discovered recently that he had worked on a lake boat that sailed to Chicago fro
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There have also been many unwelcome sea creatures brought into the Great Lakes by ships since, I presume, the Maderia Pet was the first ship to arrive in Chicago directly from Europe; a British brigantine that docked with a cargo of china and other luxury goods, on July 14, 1857. And, The first vessel to take a trip from Chicago to Europe was the Dean Richmond, which sailed July 14, 1856, wi
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I especially like the "Omnibus Lines" schedule; and the "Legal Hack or Cab Fare" with: "Children under five years of age carried Free any distance not exceeding one mile."
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