I noticed recently that the building at the southeast corner of Belmont and Lakewood is being gutted and converted into housing. This building used to be a furniture factory in decades past and it was located along the spur to Reed Candy. This building had a concrete loading dock through 2007 that followed the contours of a long-gone curving track. Previously the former scrap metal facility across the street was torn down and replaced by condos (of course).
Not only are the tracks gone except for two spots north of Diversey Parkway but virtually every former industrial building in this former rail corridor has been converted to residential use or torn down.
50 feet of isolated Milwaukee Road track a block or so north at School Street is now enclosed in a chain link fence by the current property owner which uses the area as a private parking lot. The other site of isolated Milwaukee Road C&E North Line tracks are where two pairs of rails emerge just outside the northwest corner of Wrigley Field where they cross the sidewalk on the south side of Waveland and break through the pavement on the street.
