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Shadowland: 1940

Submitted by Dave on Thu, 01/03/2008 - 4:03am.
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Shadowland: 1940

July 1940. "Under the elevated railway, Chicago, Illinois." 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

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53 W Van Buren

Submitted by Talkendo on Thu, 01/03/2008 - 9:16am.

If the Chicago Daily Tribune from June 2, 1942, is accurate, this place was at 53 West Van Buren.

The building's long gone by now (I certainly don't remember anything like it), but it would have been under what is now the Library/State/Van Buren Stop.

 

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