They make sauces and spices including. "Durkee Famous Sauce, reportedly a favorite of President Abraham Lincoln" I don't know about the factory.
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In retrospect, my answer was a little terse. Cortland was called Clybourn Place because the "Clybourn's place" was on it. The Clybourns were one of Chicago's first families, related by marriage to the Kinzies and Caldwells and Cortland was their driveway. Since the 1830's, their place was on the west side of the river on Elston. It probably predated the bridge and Clybourn Place
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It wasn't part of Clybourn, it was Clybourn Place. Several streets in the city have been named Clybourn over the years including a stretch of Pulaski north of 5200. But Clybourn as we know it, was there and called Clybourn long before 1923. The railroad called that spot in the tracks the Clybourn junction when Cortland was Clybourn and the name stuck.
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Mornac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Was there ever anything that amounted to a "Danish > neighborhood" in the city? From the Encyclopedia of Chicago http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/363.html The written Danish language was the same as Norwegian, and Swedes could understand it as well, so Danes often lived in mixed Scandinavi
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There actually was a "Town of Lake". It had a charter and a board of trustees, who,(based on the historic trib archives) were a bunch of crooks and/or incompetent. They were cheerfully swallowed up with the annexation but seemed to maintain some community identity up into the 1950's. There was a TOL chamber of commerce and a TOL community senate. In the archive, after 1960 the phrase
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Rustymuscle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Okay, I found it! The Midwest Cafe is listing as > "Midwest Lunch" and was located at 2053 W. 35th. > The building directly across the street is where > Sheehans was located (or whatever the name is). > This is the six corner intersection of Hoyne, 35th > and Archer. The Midwest Lunch bu
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HOLTANEK Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Growing up in Norridge, there was a Jewel store at > Irving & Oriole, and a half block west there was a > Grocerland. Obviously, back in the day, there was > enough of a local customer base to keep both in > business. We used to grab the empty returnable > bottles from the rack outside Jewels an
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The Historic American Building Survey's primary activity is to document significant buildings just ahead of the wrecking ball. They are the last bullet in the handgun of historic preservation. If you read the data pages connected with the file, you will that it was an Adler and Sullivan building originally housing the library for the Union Theological College. It was demolished in '63 , just wee
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Richard Stachowski Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Anybody familiar with the house on 1420 w. fulton? > I don't know how to post the picture of it but > you can see it on google street level. Also about > ablock east on the south side of fulton there is a > ghost sign like for a stable or something. The > hose sold for over 100k and now fo
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WayOutWardell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There's a strange one on Logan Blvd. just > northeast of Western Avenue, which I think is a > storage facility now...it actually had the > original facade still intact under the newer one > (which is itself probably 50 years old now). You mean The Chicago Printed String Company building? I dro
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There's an article in the Skyline about the alley http://www.skylinenewspaper.com/News/08-10-2011/Wood_block_alley_restored_
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There used to be a Neisner's at the Winston Plaza shopping center on North Ave in Melrose Park. It was sort of a five and dime operation. When my brother and I would ride our bikes out there to go to Olson Electronics and to check out the cutout bin at the record store, we would stop in at the Neisner's lunch counter and get a meatloaf sandwich. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neisner's
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222psm Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes! it's a street, looks like it was Siebens Pl > in this map from 1910 it ran from Larrabee St to a > small street that I can not make out that ran > between N. Clybourn and W. Blackhawk > http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6002/5965113239_c81 > a86ec28.jpg > > After Ogden was Extended, Ogden ra
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captain54 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Rustymuscle Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > Don't forget there was a gas station at > > North/Ogden/Larrabee...or we should say, there > was > > a building standing there. BTW, it appears > > Fischman's liquors has had several l
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Here's a shot from the IHPA IHPA Report on Kraft bldg Paul K. Dickman
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According to the Polk Criss Cross Directory, in 1929 it was called the "Tower Grove Bldg". But it's disappearance predates my specific knowledge of the area. Paul K. Dickman
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According to the polk criss cross directory, in 1928 it was the Lloyd School. http://www.chsmedia.org/househistory/polk/start.pdf
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PKDickman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Rustymuscle Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I scanned a 1951 phone book. Lots of variations > of > > Peterson, but none on 33rd. > > Rusty, > Could you do me a favor and look up the businesses > at 1630-32 N. Milwaukee Ave. in the phone
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Rustymuscle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I scanned a 1951 phone book. Lots of variations of > Peterson, but none on 33rd. Rusty, Could you do me a favor and look up the businesses at 1630-32 N. Milwaukee Ave. in the phone book. Paul K. Dickman
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chipandkathy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I went to the assessor's website but didn't see > where you can find the owner's name for a > property... The assessor doesn't list the names. You get the PIN number from the assessor, then either look up the pin at the county recorder http://www.ccrd.info/CCRD/controller;jsessionid=ABE62536060DD1
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captain54 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > this is presumably know to be the first thing ever > filmed in Chicago... > > Chicago Police Parade - 1896 > I don't know what building that is, but William Selig shot "Tramp and the Dog" here in 1896. So but the police parade may not be the first thing filmed in Chicago. Paul K. Dic
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b.a.hoarder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Having a Polish heritage I remember a saying that > go's like this- "Where's Joe?" and the answer is > "Joe pod sidevokiem."(sp.) By now you are all > thinking that I must have gone daft, but there is > a reason for that saying. > OK, back to Joe. When the streets were raised
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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. Dixiana history from La
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DaGrinch Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You say you dealt with them, Mr. Dickman? > Outstanding! Anything interesting you can tell me > about the place? Heck, anything - it doesn't even > have to be interesting - would be great. > This would have been in the eighties so your family had probably sold the operation. It may have been
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Are you sure that it wasn't 29 E Madison (aka the Heyworth building). That building is one of the jewelery centers in Chicago. I think 39 E. is in the middle of Wabash Ave. It is a 19 story building designed by Daniel Burnham There used to be a Nat'l Crystal that we used for watch crystals. I think that they were at 29 E. But they might have been at the Pittsfield building or the Mahlers b
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While killing time on Google maps today, I discovered something sad. My favorite building in all of Chicagoland has been demolished. At Ogden and Kenneth on the corner of what had been the Western Electric Hawthorne works, stood a huge clerestory factory building. A common brick building with red brick accents. It's front had three enormous arched windows. I first saw it back in the '90s when m
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The Chicago History Museum has a page on architecture and building history. They have a number of useful links http://www.chicagohs.org/research/resources/architecture One of those links is this: Street names also changed periodically throughout Chicago's history. The Museum’s street name changes document is based on a 1948 compilation with updates by Father John McNalis. http://www
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That photo makes sense. About that time ('07ish) I drove around out there to see where the western terminus of the trail was supposed to be. I was surprised to see a train on the tracks. It was a bunch of cars loaded with gravel. I think the railroad (who still owns the property) was using it as a siding.
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222psm Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Welcome to FC PK, that warehouse you leased, did > you receive/ship freight? Or had the trains > stopped running by then? We just used it for unheated storage. It had once been part of a big cabinet shop. The deck I mentioned also did double duty as an enclosure for the fuel oil tanks that fed the drying kiln
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The Bloomingdale line ran well into the '90s possibly as late as the 2000's . It crossed the C&NW tracks and jumped the river on a swing bridge at the southern tip of Finkltown. From there it would connect with the Kingsbury branch. I watched it go by many times. For the most part, it supplied Aetna Plywood, Hanna Cylinders and Sipi metals. It was also the route for the "Sugarland Expre
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