Does anyone remember the small version of Kiddieland that was located on McCormick between Devon and Lincoln, where the closed down Cineplex Odeon theatres are located? Someone told me this Kiddieland was unrelated to the one on the West Side. It was much smaller. I remember going there as late as 1970.
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That's my old neighborhood. I started kindergarten at Budlong, and walked to story time at the library which now houses the Old Town School of Folk Music. One of the buildings that was torn down to accommodate the McDonald's on Lincoln had a dance school on the second floor, and I started classes there at age three. We used to eat dinner at the Walgreen's, for a special treat!
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One of the last to go...Jay-Neal's on Armitage just east of Racine. A bit of trivia. Jay and Neal were the names of the owner's sons, and Jay started the Artists Frame Service, now on Clybourn as well as Jayson, a home goods store also on Clybourn.
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Is the two story commercial building with the Washington National sign new or a facade over the previous building, and extended to the alley?
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When it first opened, Marina City had an ice skating rink and a kind of Viennese cafe that surrounded it. I thought it was great, but I was a kid then so who knows? Since the discussion has moved a bit off the Loop, I'm assuming it's okay to also mention places that used to be on Michigan Avenue. Charmet's (I think that was the spelling) on the corner of Michigan and Chicago, where the Ralph L
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There was an orphanage on the south west corner of Foster and California.The name was something like Chapin I believe, but may be wrong. Swedish Convenant expanded and covered up the orphanage facade but I recently talked to someone who had been in the building some years ago and saw that part of the orphage was intact behind the hospital facade. Another institution was on St. Louis just nor
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