Posted February 13, 200916 yr Glenview is an older northern suburb or Chicago with a lot of character and a fair amount of new development, with decidedly mixed results. It's my wife's hometown and it's where we go every year for Thanksgiving -- and much of the extended family uses it as the starting point for our annual trip to the Loop the day after Thanksgiving. Teardowns have been increasingly common. This new house is a bit out of scale, but not too bad. The first on the block, and the least attractive -- the only "snout house." Why tear down the old when you can add on more tastefully? Downtown Glenview rail crossing . . . . . . in action Grandpa's -- across from the tracks, and a throwback to the days before this was a well-to-do suburb. The new main train station From a different angle Glenview House tavern, and downtown Downtown Glenview Our Lady of Perpetual Help, where I got married. A Colonial Catholic church Digression: Glenview was the longtime home of the Glenview Naval Air Station -- a huge base and airport that took up some 1000 acres near the center of town. When it closed about 15 years ago, it was a great opportunity for a first- (or so) ring suburb to have significant growth. It would have been a fantastic model for neo-traditional development, and was to have its own commuter rail station. Alas, the town center of the new development that occurred -- called The Glen -- was a "lifestyle center" far from the train station, on the other side of what had been the air base. On the remainder of the land, there is no street grid, and the apartments and condos are segregated from the single-family homes, and everything is spread out. Entrance to The Glen The Town Center More of the Town Center: The next day, we all hopped on a Metra Train to go downtown: Union Station Adams Street Daniel Burnham's Rookery Building, Adams & LaSalle Dearborn The storied Berghoff restaurant -- closed a couple years ago -- sort of. From Ft. Wayne, Ind., to the World's Colombian Exposition in 1893, Chicago's oldest restaurant State Street, and the Palmer House Exchequer Pub, on Wabash, our traditional Day-after-Thanksgiving lunch spot Miller's Pub, another venerable spot on Wabash (an old hangout of Bill Veeck's) The lobby of the Palmer House -- the greatest hotel lobby Marshall Fields (I refuse to call it by that New York name) Fields' Christmas tree, rising from the Walnut Room Fields' atrium Obligatory shot of The Bean Obligatory Bean reflection Angles and curves Trump and Carbide Tin Man on Magnificient Mile, singling me out to pay for the picture I took Greatest assemblage of 1920s-era skyscrapers My old workplace (15th floor, UPI, mid-1980s) Trump (newly obligatory) Trump again Angles Skinny. I forget what this building is Marina City and Wabash Ave. bridge Kup! Mr. Chicago, Irv Kupcinet, longtime Sun-Times old-school gossip columnist, still presides a few years after his death. Merchandise Mart and El Back to the Glenview station Breakfast at Sarkis Cafe the next morning Sarkis, the gregarious Armenian, no longer owns this character-filled gem -- and old haunt of Bill Murray's, where Wilmette, Evanston and Skokie come together Heading back home. Bye, bye Chicago
February 13, 200916 yr Awesome tour! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 13, 200916 yr That's awesome, my friend works in this building currently on the 11th floor. The views are the best and I love going up and down the wire fire escape on the side. Don't know if you've been in since, but they did some heavy restoration/renovation inside. One of the best I've seen.
February 13, 200916 yr Good times! I always love Chicago and Chicago photos. Few younger people in Fort Wayne know about the local connection with the Berghoff restaurant, because the Berghoff name faded from prominence locally a couple of generations back. There was a Berghoff brewery, bought by Falstaff in the sixties, I think, and long since closed and sold. Much of the original brewery was razed, but part still stands and has been rehabbed for commercial space and a reception/event venue. There was once a Berghoff Gardens restaurant downtown, but most people who remember it at all, remember it as a seamy, run-down night club/piano bar called the Rathskeller and more popularly know as the Rat Cellar before it closed and became a parking lot more than 30 years ago. In the 1950's my aunt bought a rolling, 80-acre estate west of town from an alcoholic ne'er-do-well descendant of the Berghoff family. I spent a lot of time out there, especially in summers, and on several occasions he came around for social events. I never saw him anywhere near to being sober.
February 13, 200916 yr That's awesome, my friend works in this building currently on the 11th floor. The views are the best and I love going up and down the wire fire escape on the side. Don't know if you've been in since, but they did some heavy restoration/renovation inside. One of the best I've seen. I haven't been there since the renovation. It's probably been 20 years since I worked there. I'm not sure if Paul Harvey still does his broadcasts from that building. I spent one summer there on the overnight shift. In a moment, I'll scan and post some of the pictures I took from there at night.
February 13, 200916 yr Carbide building and fire escapes Marina City Tribune Tower Sunrise from the 15th floor
February 14, 200916 yr Wow, Michigan Av looks dark and scary in that photo. Did you take them from the fire escape of death?
February 14, 200916 yr Wow, Michigan Av looks dark and scary in that photo. Did you take them from the fire escape of death? No. I never ventured out on the fire escape. This was from a 15th floor window, probably about 5 a.m. or so.
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