Ron and I sat down one day and roughly estimated his worth and it came to over 2 million. He owned many buildings in his career as landlord. One of his prized buildings was the church that the Elgin Watch manufature built, where else, in Elgin IL. ;P Ron was an architectural aficionado and expert on the 18th Century French culture. His extensive knowledge of Chicago's architecture rivaled ma
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All the cobble stones in the yard came from the Trolley base in the center of Ashland Ave., when they had trolleys that is. As progress dictated the city covered over the tracks, it was stable ground, and cost effective. Well, when the "City" decided to put in flower beds in the center of Ashland they had to dig up the center. Low and behold, they found the old trolley tracks and c
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