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Showing posts with label Food & Restaurants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food & Restaurants. Show all posts
Monday, May 6, 2024

The Noose Coffee Shop in Chicago supplied last meals for death row inmates of Cook County Jail in the 1920s.

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In the early 1900s, when Cook County Jail was on Dearborn and Hubbard Streets, a nearby restaurant would supply 25 to 50 meals daily to inma...
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Saturday, April 27, 2024

The History of Prince Castle Ice Cream Shops (1931-1954) and Cock Robin, (1954-2008).

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Prince Castle A boy points to a billboard touting the One In A Million milkshakes sold at the Price Castle ice cream shop in Naperville, whi...
Saturday, August 5, 2023

Tiny Tap Bar, 112½ North Clinton Street, Chicago, Illinois. (1953-1985)

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George and Bob DeLeonardis owned the Tiny Tap bar for years. There will be no more lewd laughter in the Tiny Tap, Chicago's smallest bar...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Eli's The Place for Steak (1966-2005), and Eli's Famous Cheesecake Bakery, Chicagoland.

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Eli Schulman was no ordinary man. A high school dropout, he gave lectures in finance at De Paul University and large amounts of money to suc...
Sunday, June 4, 2023

Chicago Waiters Strike Food Poisoning Epidemic of 1918.

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In the summer of 1918, police launched a major raid at the offices of Chicago's waiter's union. They rounded up over 100 servers wor...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Pullman Palace Dining Car, the Isabella, built 1893, Sandwich, Illinois.

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The Pullman Palace Car Co. built the 75-foot rail car, number 4438, in 1893 for $25,000 ($843,000 today). It was a unique new design for rai...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Chicago's West Ridge Community, List of Closed Restaurants.

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Chicago's West Ridge Community is comprised of these five neighborhoods: 1) West Rogers Park, 2) West Ridge; 3) Nortown; 4) Peterson...