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East Ohio Street between Rush Street and Michigan Avenue
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View of the office and commercial buildings on the north side of East Ohio Street on the block between and North Rush Street and North Michigan Avenue. The Corner House restaurant and the Just Pants clothing store occupy the ground floor of the 100 East Ohio Street building (demolished). Next to it on the right, a cocktail lounge occupies the ground floor of another office building.
Date:
1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Restaurants on Rush Street
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View of restaurants located in nineteenth-century residential buildings along the east side of North Rush Street. At the far right of the image is Armando's Restaurant, at Rush and East Superior Streets. A large sign for Club Alabam (747 North Rush Street), a dining and dance establishment, stands on the rooftops near the center of the image. On the left is the south facade - facing Chicago Avenue - of Water Tower Hyatt House hotel (originally Water Tower Inn). Part of the John Hancock Center is visible at the upper right.
Date:
1976; 1962 (Water Tower Inn)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Apartment houses and businesses on North State Street
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View along the west side of North State Street, looking north from West Ontario Street. On the left are dilapidated nineteenth-century apartments with street-level retail businesses. On the right is the Dana Hotel at 666 North State Street (demolished). The top part of the Lawson House YMCA building (Victor F. Lawson YMCA) located at 30 West Chicago Avenue, is visible in the background.
Date:
1976; 1891 (Dana Hotel); 1930-1934 (Lawson House YMCA)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Signs and awnings, 535 North Michigan Avenue
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View looking east along East Grand Avenue at awnings and signs for shops and restaurants on the Grand Avenue facade of 535 North Michigan Avenue.
Date:
1993
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Billy Goat Tavern & Grille sign
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View of a free-standing sign for the Billy Goat Tavern on the sidewalk outside the Realtor Building at 430 North Michigan Avenue.
Date:
1993
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Illuminated neon signs, North Clark Street
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View of a cluster of illuminated neon signs on building facades, including a bathhouse, a movie house marquee, Hotel Planters (19 North Clark Street, now demolished), and the Bamboo Inn Restaurant (11 N. Clark Street, demolished.)
Date:
circa 1960s
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Outdoor restaurant at the Black Forest Village
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Big John's Bar-B-Q construction
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Big John's Bar-B-Q under construction.
Collection:
University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria Historical Photographs
Access:
Public access
Barbecue restaurant construction
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Construction of Big John's Bar-B-Q restaurant.
Collection:
University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria Historical Photographs
Access:
Public access
Drawing of Big John's Barbecue
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Drawing of Big John's Barbecue.
Collection:
University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria Historical Photographs
Access:
Public access
Peter Pon's Restaurant sign, Wilmette
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View at dusk of the exterior of Peter Pon's Restaurant (537 Green Bay Road) with its large illuminated sign. A sign for a 7-Eleven store is visible to the left.
Date:
1975
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
North Clark Street, Andersonville
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View north along the west side of the 5200 block of North Clark Street from the intersection with West Farragut Avenue. Svea, a Swedish restaurant, is visible.
Date:
1981
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
East Erie Street at Rush Street
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View looking northwest along the north side of East Erie Street from the intersection with North Rush Street. The Chez Paul restaurant (660 North Rush Street) is visible on the right of the image. The top of Nickerson House (now Driehaus Museum) is visible through the trees near the center of the image. On the extreme left is a corner of the American College of Surgeons building at 55 East Erie Street (demolished).
Date:
1976; 1963 (American College of Surgeons Building)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
East Superior Street at Rush Street
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View to the west along the south side of East Superior Street. A parking garage sits in the left foreground, and behind it, at the intersection of Rush and Superior Streets, is a nineteenth century brownstone house (painted white in the photograph) converted into a restaurant.
Date:
1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Wabash Avenue with Don Roth's Blackhawk Restaurant
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View along North Wabash Avenue, with the sign for Don Roth's Blackhawk Restaurant (139 North Wabash) prominently visible.
Date:
1978
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Patrons enjoying beer at the Victor Vienna Garden Cafe
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Group of more than 100 Texas publishers, businessmen, and legislators stopped to have lunch with Rufus C. Dawes, president of the World's Fair
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
The Old Heidelberg Inn restaurant at the Century of Progress Foreign Villages exhibition.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
International House of Pancakes sign, Wilmette
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Illuminated free-standing sign outside the International House of Pancakes restaurant, formerly located at the corner of Wilmette Avenue and Poplar Drive.
Date:
circa 1975
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Greek restaurants, Halsted Street
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View looking southwest across South Halsted Street at Greek restaurants lining the west side of the block. The intersection with West Adams Street is visible at the left, and part of the sign for the Greek Islands Restaurant is visible behind the traffic signals.
Date:
1983
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Gino's East pizzeria sign and adjacent parking lot, North Michigan Avenue
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View looking east across Michigan Avenue at the northeast corner of North Michigan Avenue and Superior Street, showing a Gino's East sign painted on the side wall of that restaurant, and a parking lot in front of that.
Date:
1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access

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