Author Topic: Chicago Tribune 2015 Calendar Features C&NW Customers by Lake Shore Drive  (Read 1301 times)

TBurke

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The Chicago Tribune included as an insert in the Sunday print edition a 2015 with many vintage photos of Chicago.  It's worth picking up the paper if just for the photos included in the calendar.

This photo is a scan of the front cover which depicts the opening of the bridge connecting North and South Lake Shore Drive in 1937.  Note the infamous S-curve which would not be replaced until decades later.  Photo also shows the Tribune riverfront warehouse for receiving paper via ships, the Curtiss candy plant which was rail served by the C&NW, and a coal yard.  Also shown are strings of boxcars on what I believe would be an extension of Carroll Avenue between the river and Ogden Slip-anyone know what that factory with the two chimneys was? 
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