Hemmings Classic Car magazine features this picture in their latest issue of a 1948 Federal Model 65. The picture was taken in 1948 in Chicago with the Tribune Tower in the background. The staff could not determine more precisely where the picture was taken.
Any guesses as to the exact street location? I would say somewhere on Grand Avenue west of Navy Pier with the street car tracks in the pavement. They do not appear to be freight tracks.
I do not know without checking when the Chicago Surface Lines discontinued the service down Grand Avenue to Navy Pier. What was left of streetcars were replaced finally by buses and trolley buses in 1958. If it was still an active streetcar line in 1948 it would be strange for a truck to park on the track and block streetcars.
