The Digital Research Library of Illinois History Journal™ : The History of the Monarch Brewing Company of Chicago.

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

The History of the Monarch Brewing Company of Chicago.

Monarch Brewing Company was a nondescript group of brick buildings at, 1090-1118 West 21st Street, Chicago operated on this site from 1892 until 1958, making it one of Chicago’s longer lasting breweries, and one of the few to survive long after the end of Prohibition.

The section on the left with bricked-up windows was once a bottling house for the brewery (likely built in the 1930s), though it has been heavily altered and shortened.

A former warehouse and shipping building on 21st Place is also still standing. All of the other former brewery buildings on the site have been demolished over the years.

Drink Coaster

WWII Advertisement

Property History:
Joseph Hladovec Brewing Company (1890-1892)
Monarch Brewing Company (1892-1898) Telephone: Canal 6500
Monarch Brewery United Breweries (1898-1909)
Monarch Brewery (1909-1922)
Monarch Beverage Co. (1923-1932) The Prohibition years.
Monarch Brewing Co. Inc. (1932-1936)
Monarch Brewing Co. (1936-1958)
Van Merritt Brewing Co. opened on the same site in 1958 and closed in 1967.

INDEX TO MY ILLINOIS AND CHICAGO FOOD & RESTAURANT ARTICLES.

Compiled by Dr. Neil Gale, Ph.D.

2 comments:

AnonymousTuesday, March 7, 2023 at 2:04:00 PM CST
What an extraordinary piece of Chicago history !!!. Thanks for giving us this.
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M. Scott McM.Friday, October 4, 2024 at 6:36:00 PM CDT
In the '60's, my party crowd would load cases of Monarch Beer on our boat, The Arc, before a day of merriment on the Rock River in Rockford Illinois.
Can I post a couple of pictures?
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