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Grant Park railroad yards and Loop buildings
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View from the railroad yards in Grant Park toward Michigan Avenue and Loop high-rise buildings. At the left behind the trees is the Michigan Avenue National Bank Building (Michigan Boulevard Building), with the Chicago Public Library (Chicago Cultural Center) next to it to the right. Behind that is the United Insurance Building (1 E. Wacker).
Date:
1975; 1914 (Michigan Avenue National Bank Building); 1962 (United Insurance Building)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Auditorium building from Grant Park railroad yards
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View towards the Auditorium building and adjacent Michigan Avenue buildings from over the railway yards in Grant Park.
Date:
1972; 1889 (Auditorium Building)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Hubbard Street Railway Yard and Near North Side
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View from the Hubbard Street Yard of the Chicago & North Western Railway, with the Near North Side skyline beyond. On the left is the John Sexton Building, then a warehouse but now condominiums. Behind that is the John Hancock Center.
Date:
1970; 1917 (John Sexton Building); 1969 (John Hancock Center)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
CTA Howard Street train yards
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View southeast of the CTA tracks (now Purple Line) and the train yard north of the Howard station. A couple cars of the Skokie Swift train (with light green tops) are at the far left. The top of the sign for the Howard Theater (1615-43 West Howard Street) is visible against the sky at the far right.
Date:
1971
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Railroad yards, South Deering
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View looking southwest from East 103rd Street overpass at a large rail yard. Boxcars in the foreground include one from the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway (C&EI) and another from Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad (DT&I).
Date:
1974
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Michigan Avenue from railroad yards in Grant Park
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View of the Michigan Avenue "streetwall" from the railway yards in Grant Park. Illinois Central railway cars are in the foreground. The Congress Hotel is in the distance, and the Auditorium Building is next to it to the right.
Date:
1972
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
CTA train cars, Wilmette terminal
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View of CTA train cars standing at the Wilmette CTA station. An old train car is at the right.
Date:
1971
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access

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