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Snyder Drugs, Burlington Avenue, La Grange
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
La Grange Road and Burlington Avenue
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Stineway Drugs, La Grange Plaza shopping center
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Kopecky Drugs, Roosevelt Road, Broadview
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
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Public access
Kopecky Drugs, Roosevelt Road, Broadview
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Chicago's shopping districts
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Hand-drawn map by C. William Brubaker showing the locations of Chicago's shopping districts.
Date:
1981
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Devon Avenue commercial area
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View west along the north side of West Devon Avenue. The intersection with North Artesian Avenue is on the left side of the image. Numerous shops, including Towne Shoes and Slivka's Shoes, line the street.
Date:
1978
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
West Morse Street near Elevated train station
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View looking east along West Morse Street from just west of the Morse station on the CTA Red Line. Numerous retail businesses including a bakery, restaurant and liquor store occupy the single story building on the 1400 block. The east half of that building is now demolished.
Date:
1982
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Snyder Drugs, Burlington Avenue, La Grange
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Stineway Drugs, La Grange Plaza shopping center
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Walgreens Drugs, Devon & Talcott Shopping Center, Park Ridge
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Morava Drugs, 22nd Street and 58th, Cicero
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Snyder Drugs, Burlington Avenue, La Grange
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Cech's Drugs, La Grange
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Musket and Henriksen Drugs, Austin and Irving Park Road
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
West 95th Street business corridor
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View looking east along West 95th Street. The intersection with South Leavitt Street is in the middle of the photograph. At the right, the sign for the parking lot for Himmel Furs (2201 West 95th Street, now Andriana Furs) is visible.
Date:
1974
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
West 63rd Street at Western Avenue
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View looking northwest along the north side of West 63rd Street from the intersection with South Western Avenue. Walgreens and a Household Finance Loan office is in the left foreground.
Date:
1978
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
North Wells Street from West Schiller Street
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View looking north along the east side of North Wells Street from just north of the intersection with West Schiller Street. The Old Jerusalem restaurant is visible (1411 N. Wells Street). Next to it on the left is the Wax Museum (defunct), decorated with flags in celebration of the American Bicentennial. In the distance at the left, the Americana Towers, Kennelly Square, and Eugenie Square apartment buildings are silhouetted against the sky.
Date:
1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Spatny Pharmacy, Cermak Road and Gunderson
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Kunka & Parks Pharmacy, Cermak and Ridgeland, Berwyn
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Sauerberg Pharmacy, Burlington Avenue, Western Springs
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Walgreens Drug Store, Main Street, Downers Grove
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Roseland commercial district, South Michigan Avenue
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View north along South Michigan Avenue from the intersection with East 114th Place. At the time of the photograph, the area was a thriving commercial district with stores and businesses lining both sides of the street.
Date:
circa 1972
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Cermak Road, South Lawndale
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View in winter looking east along the north side of West Cermak Road between South Marshall Boulevard and South California Avenue. A four story building with a "Hotel" sign in front (2860 West Cermak Road) has a side wall painted with an advertisement reading in part "Aqui es! Super Birria Jalisco". Further down the block is Manning Savings (2854 West Cermak Road). At the extreme left is a parking lot with a sign over the entrance reading "Marshall Sq. Theatre Parking".
Date:
1979
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Walgreens, Cermak Road and Ridgeland, Berwyn
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Grosse Pharmacy, Ogden Avenue at Joliet, Lyons
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Cech's Drugs and Walgreens, La Grange
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Stineway Drugs, La Grange Plaza shopping center
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
18th Street, Pilsen
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View looking east along West 18th Street, from east of the intersection with South Racine Avenue. The sign for the Cuernavaca Restaurant (1158 West 18th Street) is visible at the left of the image. A bakery, the Panaderia El Paraiso is next to that. Other businesses line both sides of the street.
Date:
1981
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Main Street, East Chicago, Indiana
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View looking north along Main Street from the intersection with Broadway Street, at the downtown business area of East Chicago, Indiana. The green marquee for the Garden Theatre (formerly 3424 Main Street, East Chicago; now demolished) is visible near the center of the image. Refinery smokestacks are visible in the distance at the far end of the street.
Date:
1972; 1918 (Garden Theatre)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Gately's People's Store, South Michigan Avenue commercial strip
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View looking north along a thriving commercial strip on South Michigan Avenue. Gately's department store (Gately's People Store, 11201 South Michigan Avenue at East 112th Street) with its five-story parking garage is visible near the center of the image. Numerous other businesses line both sides of the street. The light posts are decorated for the Christmas holiday season.
Date:
circa 1972
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Archer Avenue commercial strip
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View of the commercial strip along South Archer Avenue. The intersection with South Kedzie Avenue is immediately to the right of the building on the right. Businesses pictured include Archer Jewelers and the Golden Heart Snack Shop Restaurant.
Date:
1978
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
North Broadway Avenue businesses
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View looking north along the sidewalk on the east side of North Broadway, south of the intersection with West Bryn Mawr Avenue. 5549 North Broadway, a two story brick building, is near the center of the photograph. 5545 North Broadway, which housed a photo studio at the time the photograph was taken, is partly visible at the far right.
Date:
1980
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Apartment block with street-level retail, North Clark Street
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View looking southwest along the west side of North Clark Street, at a 1920s apartment block with street-level retail businesses, located between West Thome Avenue and West Granville Avenue (6200 - 6244 North Clark Street).
Date:
1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
State Street Mall from Van Buren Street
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View looking northwest along a block of the State Street Mall (South State Street) from near Van Buren Street toward Jackson Boulevard. Retail businesses in low-rise buildings including Regal Shoes, Smoky Joe's and Radio Shack are visible.
Date:
1987
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Loomis and 18th Street, Franklin Drugs
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
West 22nd Street, Cicero, and Morava Drugs
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Nosek's Drugs, 22nd Street and Austin, Cicero
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Stineway Drugs, La Grange Plaza shopping center
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Lincoln Avenue, Lincoln Square
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View north along North Lincoln Avenue, from just northwest of the intersection with Western Avenue and West Ainslie Street. A McDonald's Restaurant is on the left, and signs for Lincoln Square Bowling and an Ace Hardware store are visible beyond that.
Date:
1978
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Western Avenue commercial area near Lawrence
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View looking north along North Western Avenue, from south of West Lawrence Avenue. The 3 Links Hotel is on the left (4740 North Western Avenue). Other businesses line both sides of the street. The lower part of the Lincoln Square Savings & Loan Association sign is visible at the far right.
Date:
1967
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
West Howard Street and CTA Howard Station
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View looking west along West Howard Street from just east of the CTA's Howard station. Part of the Howard Theater building (1621 W. Howard Street) is visible on the far left, with retail businesses occupying the street level and apartments on the upper stories. Stores and restaurants line the north side of the block.
Date:
1975; 1917 (Howard Theatre)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Honsik Pharmacy, 26th Street and Christiana
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
A. W. Ballin Pharmacy, 12th Street and Independence
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Kopecky Drugs, Roosevelt Road, Broadview
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph 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
North Clark Street, Rogers Park
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View looking north along the sidewalk on the east side of North Clark Street, south of the intersection with West Greenleaf Avenue. The A&T Grill is in the foreground, located at the time at 7021 North Clark Street.
Date:
1982
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
26th Street and Pelikan Drugs
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Walgreens Pharmacy, La Grange Road
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access
Cech's Drugs, La Grange
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Date:
1955
Collection:
Chicago Area Pharmacy Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access

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