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Chicago’s Shoreline Motels – South 1 Jul 2013 | 06:02 am
White Way sales brochure, no date As mentioned previously in previous Forgotten Chicago articles here, here, and here, there were a total of 13 Shoreline Motels built in Chicago in the roughly ten yea...
Chicago’s Shoreline Motels – Central 18 Feb 2013 | 04:48 am
Courtesy of Jacob Kaplan In this undated postcard, Lake Michigan and North Lake Shore Drive are seen two floors below the pool deck of the Lake Tower Motel. The Lake Tower opened in 1959 and would be ...
Cable Car Remnants 28 Dec 2012 | 08:42 pm
Chicago Cable Cars, a new book, breathes life into the forgotten story of how Chicago came to build the largest cable car system the world has ever seen. During a quarter century, three private cable ...
Five Years of Forgotten Chicago, Part 2: Research 6 Dec 2012 | 11:03 pm
Since Forgotten Chicago’s modest beginnings as a web site in November 2007, we have prided ourselves on the depth of our extensive research on the Chicago area’s overlooked built (and unbuilt) environ...
Five Years of Forgotten Chicago, Part 1: Tours 24 Oct 2012 | 12:12 am
Matthew Kaplan In October 2012, Forgotten Chicago concluded its fifth season of tours, having shared with over a thousand participants some of the Chicago area’s most overlooked, little known, and rem...
Chicago’s Shoreline Motels – North 8 Sep 2012 | 07:22 pm
Chuckman Collection Of the 13 Shoreline Motels built in Chicago between 1955 and 1965, the former Sheridan-Chase (now Super 8) is one of only two properties still in use in 2012 as a motel. Prior to m...
The Miami of Canada: Chicago’s Shoreline Motels 20 Jul 2012 | 11:15 pm
Chuckman Collection The second Shoreline Motel, the Shore Drive, opened in Hyde Park in April 1956. Introduction A major business, trade, tourism and convention destination since the middle of the 19t...
Bertrand Goldberg in Tower Town Part 3: Bertrand Goldberg’s Michigan Avenue Project 19 May 2012 | 06:14 am
Bertrand Goldberg in Tower Town is a three-part set of articles detailing this Chicago-based architect’s one-time residence in the 1930s. This article looks at a beauty salon announced as having been ...
The Bloomingdale Line 5 May 2012 | 02:21 am
Introduction On the evening of July 30, 1939, Nancy Froemming “and her ambition” boarded a train in Milwaukee bound for Chicago. Miss Froemming — who thought that she “could sing with the best of them...
Review of FC175, Our Chicago Birthday Party Held March 31, 2012 9 Apr 2012 | 02:06 pm
Many thanks to everyone who attended FC175 on Saturday, March 31, 2012 at Greenhouse Loft. We hope attendees had as much fun at our event as we had putting it together! If you were unable to attend, w...
