Dr Richard Kimble follows the One-Armed Man to find his home. IRL – 1920s storefront on 1880s rowhouse (Solon S. Beman) in Pullman, 2/8/22. In Polk’s 1928, Chris Dritsas had a grocery here. For a long time more recently it was Athens Grocery (Flickr reminisces).
Former 42nd Precinct Town Hall Station in Lake View, 3/21/21. Our private eye hero VI Warshawski makes a couple visits here during her investigation “…we found a cabbie had stopped at the Town Hall Station and mentioned picking up a woman“. Today, with the neighboring building, it serves as residences for LGBTQ+ seniors.
4007 W Ogden (~1905-09) in Lawndale, 8/29/23. According to Polk’s 1928 Directory, John & Anna Staljin sold soft drinks here. On Flickr, Cragin Spring’s research had them here until at least 1940, with different last name spelling. It had a cameo in an Season 3 episode of Chicago PD. Most recently it had been the Skylark Lounge for sometime, though now closed.
Former Union Petroleum Co (Argyle E Robinson, 1911) in Back of the Yards, 5/13/20. As 4345 it housed Sinclair by 1928. Kinsella Landscaping is listed here now. This is one of the current sights to see as you retrace the route of a 1895 Chicago Tribune cyclist.
The former home of Bobby Franks getting some work done in Kenwood, 9/2/20. The 14 yr old was abducted and murdered in 1924. Dubbed the “Crime of the Century” the media focused on the privileged upbringing of perpetrators Leopold & Loeb. The house is still a private residence.
The South Fork of the South Branch of the Chicago River in Bridgeport. The last that remains of the river to the stockyards, where our hero Jurgis works. –“Bubbly Creek” is an arm of the Chicago river, and forms the southern boundary of the yards; all drainage of the square mile of packing houses empties into it, so that it is really an open sewer a hundred or two feet wide” – Looking much much better these days.
Back side of the Heald Square Monument (Lorado Taft & Leonard Crunelle, 1941) in the Loop, 5/12/20. It was meant to feature the wider ethnic contributions to American Independence, a rebuke of the era’s rise of Fascism. In 2021, it was included on Chicago’s list of monuments to be re-evaluated for continued display, probably due to the soft pedaling of the enslavers whose coat tails we see.
IRS agent Harold Crick leaves Anna Pascal’s bakery after informing her of an audit. She is unimpressed.La Catedral Cafe in Little Village, 5/4/22. They continue to grow with two more locations in North Lawndale and Brighton Park.
Contact CBA for a custom guided ridethat includes some of these sights and for gift certificates for the cyclists in your life.Also, these maps are some of the many layers on The Map, where you can plan your own ride, run, or walk around Chicago
