Yeah, This Is Really Chicago

99th Street Metra Station

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99th and Walden, Beverly (1890)

Park Castle Apartments

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Park Castle, West Rogers Park (c. 1927)

Old Town rowhouses

2011-07-08T19:56:00.001-07:00

Brick rowhouses on N. Meyers Court, Old Town

Urbs in Horto

2011-02-12T12:48:00.001-08:00

Abandoned cornfields,
134th Place near St. Lawrence

Stewart Ridge, West Pullman

2010-11-30T19:25:00.000-08:00

Large homes on ridges and gently sloping hills near 121st and Harvard
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1340.html

Wolf Lake

2010-10-29T19:59:00.000-07:00

Wolf Lake is part of the William W. Powers State Recreation Area.
The 419 acre lake straddles the IL/IN state line between 120th + 134th streets.
http://dnr.state.il.us/lands/landmgt/parks/r2/wmpow.htm

Stearns Quarry Park

2010-09-12T17:27:00.000-07:00

27th + Halsted, Bridgeport

Elks National Veterans Memorial

2010-05-30T05:28:00.000-07:00

Elks National Veterans Memorial

2750 N. Lakeview Ave.
c. 1926

http://www.elks.org/memorial/historicalTour.cfm

Stockyard Gate

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Exchange Ave. at Peoria St., c. 1875
Burnham + Root, architects

Gruppo di Amici, Rogers Park

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Gruppo di Amici (formerly Jarvis Liquors)
1508 W. Jarvis
c. 1929

St. Mary of the Lake

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St. Mary of the Lake Church (left, c.1913) + Convent (right, c.1939)
4200 N. Sheridan Road

Longwood Drive, Beverly

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Modest little house up on the hill.
Longwood Drive, Beverly Hills
Chicago

Elks Memorial, interior

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Elks National Veterans Memorial

2750 N. Lakeview Ave.
c. 1926

Eastlake Terrace Modern

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A unique condo building on the 7600 block of Eastlake Terrace in Rogers Park
that looks like it would fit nicely in Miami. Built in 1954, this building was built on
pilings and has a private deck at the end of a central common patio.

Hidden garden

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A gorgeous garden in Rogers Park.

Hotel Florence

2009-04-25T18:59:00.001-07:00

Summer at the Hotel Florence, Pullman (c.1881)
11111 South Forrestville

Sunrise at -2 degrees

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Sunrise, lakeside.

Market Hall apartments, Pullman

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112th & Champlain, c. 1892
http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/Maps/PullmanDistrict.html

Frozen Coast of Chicago

2008-12-22T18:12:00.000-08:00

Winter descends on the northern shore of Chicago.

Obama Wins!

2008-11-21T17:35:00.000-08:00

A new day dawns in America: November 4, 2008

Cheetah House

2008-10-24T10:05:00.000-07:00

I don't think anyone would be surprised to learn
that this awesome house is in Rogers Park.

Beach re-vegetation project

2008-09-21T13:57:00.000-07:00

Beach re-vegetation project.
Pratt Avenue at the beach, Rogers Park.

Lurie Garden

2008-07-24T18:07:00.000-07:00

Lurie Garden, Millennium Park

Heart of Italy

2008-06-20T19:59:00.001-07:00

Shuttered storefront on Oakley south of 24th Street.
Sign on top says 'Fontana Bros'

The beaches are open!

2008-05-24T07:32:00.000-07:00

Summer in Chicago.....

Lakeside Living: Coast of Chicago

2008-04-24T17:06:00.000-07:00

The end of winter is near at the beach in Rogers Park.

Stockyard Bank

2008-03-22T15:25:00.000-07:00

Stockyard Bank
4105 South Halsted Street
b.1924

Spring in Jackson Park

2008-03-14T19:53:00.000-07:00

Spring in Osaka Garden,
on Wooded Isle in Jackson Park
(we shall see spring again, soon enough!)
http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/custom.natureOasis16

Raber House

2008-02-22T20:34:00.000-08:00

5760 S. Lafayette Avenue
Year Built: 1870
Designated a Chicago Landmark in 1996
From the Landmarks page:

" One of the city's few remaining pre-Fire of 1871 residences, this is a rare surviving example in the Englewood community of a large country estate. The Italianate-style brick residence, which is capped by a wooden cupola, was constructed by John Raber, a prominent area businessman, real-estate developer, and politician. The residence's original 6 acre grounds and gardens were so extensive that the house's initial address was on State Street
(then South Plank Road), one block to the east."

http://www.cityofchicago.org/Landmarks/R/RaberHouse.html

February at the beach

2008-02-10T09:18:00.001-08:00

A calm, cold day on Chicago's north coast.

Brown and blue

2008-01-19T15:04:00.000-08:00

Grassy field on the lake, Rogers Park.

Remnants of a wooden pier

2008-01-03T18:51:00.000-08:00

Near Touhy Avenue at the lake.

Winter on the coast of Chicago

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Snow on the beach on
a sunny winter day in Rogers Park

Far South Side

2007-12-02T09:46:00.000-08:00

Unpaved roads, tractors and tended fields
still linger on the far south side near 134th and Indiana.

Edgebrook Golf Course

2007-11-12T16:19:00.000-08:00

Edgebrook Golf Course looking south from
Old Edgebrook District
Chicago
http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/O/OldEdgebrook.html

Noble-Seymour-Crippen House

2007-11-03T10:16:00.001-07:00

5624 N. Newark Ave, Chicago
Designated a Chicago Landmark in May 1988

West Side Rowhouses

2007-10-24T17:44:00.000-07:00

A very unique little curved street of rowhouses on the
2900 block of West Monroe Street
Chicago

Thalia Hall

2007-10-06T06:54:00.001-07:00

Thalia Hall
c.1892
1215-25 W. 18th Street
Chicago
Designated a Chicago Landmark in1989

Queen Anne Cottages

2007-09-22T08:23:00.001-07:00

Queen Anne Cottages

c.1886-87
1300 blocks of south Oakley, Heath and Claremont
Recently listed on Landmarks Chicago's
2008 Chicagoland Watch List of Endangered Buildings:
http://www.landmarks.org/chicago_watch_2007_9.htm

Late summer at the beach

2007-09-16T17:52:00.000-07:00

Beach, Rogers Park
Chicago

Athens Grocery

2007-09-08T09:51:00.000-07:00

Athens Grocery
113th Street and St. Lawrence Avenue
Chicago

Beverly Unitarian Church

2007-09-01T14:06:00.001-07:00

Beverly Unitarian Church
c. 1886
103rd Street & Longwood Drive
Chicago

Pullman rowhouses

2007-08-27T19:21:00.000-07:00

Rowhouses in Pullman
(listed on the National Register of Historic Places)
Chicago

Alta Vista Terrace

2007-08-27T18:35:00.001-07:00

Alta Vista Terrace

(listed on the National Register of Historic Places)
3800 North / 1050 West
Chicago

Beach - far north side

2007-08-24T13:00:00.000-07:00

Pratt Avenue beach, looking south

Chicago

Caldwell Lily Pond

2007-08-24T12:58:00.000-07:00

Caldwell Lily Pond

Fullerton Avenue between Stockton and Cannon Drives

Chicago

Stockyard Gate

2007-08-24T12:57:00.000-07:00

Stockyard Gate

Peoria Street at Exchange Avenue

Chicago

Welcome / Bienvenue / Ciao

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This is just a little blog highlighting interesting, odd, out-of-place and unusual spots within the Chicago city limits. Places that make you feel like you're somewhere else. Areas that make you doubt you're even in the city and sometimes even make you feel like you're in completely different city or country entirely. Enjoy. And remember, these places really are in Chicago.