Forgotten Chicago

Chicago's overlooked architecture and infrastructure. DM's will go unanswered, please use @forgottenchi.

[Forgotten Chicago @ForgottenChi]

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Logan Square:
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Avondale and Chicago's Polish Village:
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Art Deco Chicago:
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[Brian Nadig @NadigNewspapers]

A local historian is spearheading an effort to save an elaborately carved wooden facade of a former nightclub where the Smashing Pumpkins played its first concert in the late 1980s
@SmashingPumpkin
@Pres_Chicago
https://t.co/5Zm6VQXZmT

[Phil Thompson @wonder_city_]

A Romanesque Revival of Chicago.

[Mr. Illinois @mr1llinois]

Cool modern(e?) buildings on Burton Place in Chicago.

[MWRD @MWRDGC]

Historical Photo of the Day: Construction of the Calumet Water Reclamation Plant (WRP) on June 2, 1922. Join us on Tuesday, February 14, at 2 p.m. on our next virtual tour ⬇️
https://t.co/nt2zlnU9tp
🏗💧💩🧪🧫🔬🌊🌞

[Jacob Kaplan 🇺🇦 @JacobFC]

Love seeing this on the front page of @Wikipedia today!

[Jeff Nichols🌻 @backwards_river]

1300 S. Albany, Chicago 1972.

[Mary @meromero3627]

@KevinIrvineChi @ChiGhostSigns @ForgottenChi @robertloerzel @kofchicago @53viroqua I drove by last night.. interesting.. well go by today to see if I can get a better pic of the goast sign above it..📸

[Midwest Modern @JoshLipnik]

@posts_cards third location in Oak Brook https://t.co/NUjvd40Pa0

[#Poland in Chicago @PLinChicago]

Yes we did, and you guys did for us a wonderful piece of art. Thank you!

[John Crouch @JCrouchPhoto]

I have a question for the Chicago history sleuths out there (paging @ForgottenChi).

https://t.co/dB1tYUfHQA

What was this large structure on the near northwest side of Chicago? It looks absolutely enormous. Was it near goose island?

[Phil Thompson @wonder_city_]

The Polish Consulate in Chicago asked us to draw their building.

[Jeff Nichols🌻 @backwards_river]

Ashland and Cortez, Chicago 1963

[Chi Urbanist @chi_urbanist]

Not Lake, Monroe, or Jackson, but a secret fourth thing.

[Forgotten Chicago @ForgottenChi]

Saint Adalbert Roman Catholic Church in Chicago was designed by architect Henry J. Schlacks. Its interior is modeled after the papal basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura in Rome.

[RPWRHS @RPWRHS]

c. 1962 photo: Street scene - 155 Howard Western Bus in West Ridge

[Colin Boyle @colinbphoto]

There was construction on northbound Halsted Street, which was a blessing in disguise because we wound up at the Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church. A kind employee saw us gazing at the building and welcomed us inside for photos + a nearly 30min convo about machine politics.

[Jeff Nichols🌻 @backwards_river]

Dayton and Clybourn, 1971. UIC

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

my kinda town (chicago is)