Most of what comes in the Port of Chicago now is steel, not grain. Most grain is exported down the Mississippi River by barge and loaded on ocean going vessels at New Orleans. There are only a handful of foriegn arrivals at the Port of Chicago today.
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Our family'f funeral home of choice was Ellgas Funeral Home on Armitage Avenue just west of Pulaski. The owner, Matt Ellgass, was a good friend of my father, and most of my father's family lived near St. Philomena's Church in that area. I believe Matt Ellgass married into the Wold family, and that the funeral home was originally Wold & Wold, which was one of the oldest businesses in Chicago
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Wow,do I ever remember the old Dunning branch. I also live very near the corner of Oak Park and Addison, and live in the house my parents bought in 1953. While I moved all over the country, I wound up back in the house I grew up in. There certainly was a branch line coming off of the old Milwaukee Road mainline near Grand Avenue that used to come up to Dunning at around Nashville Avenue. When
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