Day 18: Last of Chicago and Illinois

Finally! I wrapped adding all the remaining Illinois photos to my website today. In the course of researching and adding them, I’ve got about 200 things on my list now that I didn’t know about before the June trip or need reshooting (wrong time of day or crappy weather). So, I’ll be back someday — maybe a couple years from now with a Minnesota/Wisconsin/Michigan trip.

Let’s start with the Tower of Pisa in Niles:

This former gas station in Chicago is right across the street from Wrigley Field:

This fake castle in Chicago was originally the Ivanhoe Restaurant (now a Binny’s Liquor):

This mausoleum is in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago:

This ship-shaped beach house is right on Lake Michigan in Chicago:

This former Tastee-Freez is in Chicago:

This Fannie May Candy House in Skokie is the only one I know of in the colonial style. I’ve shot many others that are porcelain enamel boxes:

This former Walgreens department store is also in Skokie:

This little strip mall in Glenview has been sold and there are plans to demolish the buildings and replace with a parking lot:

One of my favorites in Chicago:

I still can’t figure out what the original name was when this sign in Chicago went up. It was the A&T Grill for many years but that wasn’t it:

A former Foremost Liquor sign with stuck-on panels in Chicago:

More liquor in Chicago:

Packy’s Liquors is in Des Plaines:

A two-fer-one in Waukegan — above the entrance…:

… and this one across the street in the parking lot:

In Skokie: originally, Skokie Lumber with the oval-shaped panel changed when the business became a Crafty Beaver Home Center:

Two more signs in Skokie:

This sign in Chicago appears to be from the 1950s with a panel or two or three swapped out for Chicken Inn when they moved into the building in 1972:

Simon’s Tavern in Chicago opened in 1934. There was a blade sign of some sort there then. This sign with the pickled herring wearing a Swedish helmet was built in 1994: