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Witness to subterranean Chicago. King of Lake Street. Guardian of the city’s oldest buildings. Telling a story of the unappreciated, unseen, unknown. MCMLXXXIV. All rights reserved.
fuck, it’s cloudy as hell 😩
03.03.2026 10:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
full moon, 400 North Wabash Avenue
03.03.2026 06:04 — 👍 41 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0mood
03.03.2026 02:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0a 2014 photo of the ornamental detail on the buildings, a lovely, romantic Italianate cast-iron pillar with a foliated heart incised design
03.03.2026 01:29 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
3116 and 3118 West Lake Street, built 1869
03.03.2026 01:18 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Scottie’s Fish Market, 1442 South Pulaski Road, now demolished (2011 and 2014 photos)
Hand-painted signs feature “Live from the Mississippi River”, “Catfish”, “Perch”, raccoon!
it’s just like Vera said! 🌙 #totallunareclipse
02.03.2026 15:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Google Streetview of the property with PIN10 1610405036: 4220 West Lake Street
4220 West Lake Street
01.03.2026 16:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Built 1877
28.02.2026 22:12 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Built 1882
28.02.2026 21:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Built 1919
28.02.2026 21:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0kinda wild that River West isn’t included but we are out here by Lake/Sacramento
28.02.2026 06:48 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
steel and shadow, Lower Beaubien Court
28.02.2026 06:35 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I don’t think I’ve ever seen a worker’s cottage in Chicago with an ornate double-story porch like this, I love the fretwork on the wooden posts
28.02.2026 04:01 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
1880s worker’s cottages, photographed in 2018
survivors of the original village of Central Park, settled after 1873 opening of C&NW railroad shops (from "Block by Block: Neighborhoods & Public Policy on Chicago's West Side", Amanda I. Seligman)
1870s unique worker’s cottage once stood here at 4236 West Carroll Avenue, demolished after 1984, and was Orange-rated in the Chicago Historic Resources Survey. Details like Gothic windows, overhanging eave and rectilinear window hoods.
28.02.2026 03:52 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1worker’s cottage built 1881, photographed in 2016
28.02.2026 03:47 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0Night Owls M.C. Private Club, photographed in 2012
27.02.2026 09:16 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
a perfect ending to a perfect meal at Le Colonial
27.02.2026 02:59 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
waiting on a winter night, LaSalle Street
26.02.2026 22:29 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Google Streetview of the property with PIN10 1610330021: 4534 West Madison Street
4534 West Madison Street
26.02.2026 16:30 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Google Streetview of the property with PIN10 1610329016: 4654 West Madison Street
4654 West Madison Street
26.02.2026 05:45 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“All I see now is ‘before’”
26.02.2026 05:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
first quarter moon, Wolcott Avenue
25.02.2026 21:07 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0this SPICES wooden water tower has been gone for over 10 years, and I loved it so much
21.02.2026 22:13 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I would climb into the decrepit, dangerous, dark Brach’s factory, the scent of black pepper and spices were burned into my memories of exploring that place, and became the sensory background of the things I saw & captured in photos
21.02.2026 21:48 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Wabash Avenue alley
21.02.2026 00:03 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0A rare conjoined greystone facade
20.02.2026 06:50 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wells Street
19.02.2026 23:43 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
