Comments on Uptown Chicago History: Wilson Avenue Theatre

there was an entertainment company interested in b...

2008-05-08T11:51:00.000-05:00

there was an entertainment company interested in buying the bank- i believe they were going to restore it to a theater... but then according to the city you have to provide for a good amount of parking if you are opening a new entertainment venue. Anyway, the land they wanted to purchase with the bank (the parking lot) is contaminated and no one wants to pay the cost of cleaning it up. So it sits...

This used to be the Bank of Chicago, where I opene...

2008-05-05T12:07:00.000-05:00

This used to be the Bank of Chicago, where I opened my first bank account with $5 back in July 1965.

You can ask your alderman.Helen Shiller made an ac...

2007-12-21T13:08:00.000-06:00

You can ask your alderman.

Helen Shiller made an activist name for herself by opposing the building of Truman. Too yuppie and too disruptive to Uptown's squalor for her tastes, dontchaknow.

Green Fairy, your blog rocks! Instead of mourning the way it was, it makes me want to build Uptown back up to the status it had in the early 1900s.

There also used to be a theater on Wilson where Tr...

2007-12-17T13:28:00.000-06:00

There also used to be a theater on Wilson where Truman College now stands. I would love to see what that block (south side) looked like before the college was built.

Thanks for these fabulous images. It makes me quit...

2007-12-17T11:22:00.000-06:00

Thanks for these fabulous images. It makes me quite melancholy to see what a vibrant and built-up area Uptown was back when . . .

That used to be quite a grand corner. We wonder wh...

2007-12-15T11:18:00.000-06:00

That used to be quite a grand corner. We wonder what residents from 80 years ago would think if they saw this same intersection today? Interesting bit about the theatre.