A Few Business House of Apple River, Illinois
Pretty shocked that some of these buildings were 1) still standing, and 2) that I could find them...but there are only so many buildings in a town of 366.
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Zymotechnic Institute and Siebel's Brewing Academy, Chicago
Postcards as an unreliable depiction of an idealized past, an old-timey archaic science, and a plucky Chicago survivor that’s housed a wild variety of tenants–this is a fun one.
Math Igler's Casino, Chicago
Once the heart of Chicago’s Nord Seite, Lakeview was crowded with German joints like Math Igler’s Casino. Not that kind of casino, though–Igler’s was sauerbraten and singing waiters rather than slots.
Irving Park Reformed Church, Chicago
The first church in Irving Park, highway construction in the 1950s just missed the old Irving Park Reformed Church in the 1950s, but the Kennedy
Kohl & Madden Ink Company Plant, Chicago
An Art Moderne factory turned liquor store feels like an especially Chicago version of adaptive reuse.