Uptown Chicago History

Bill Matteson Uptown Chicago History Correspondent Eddie Waitkus was a born baseball player. He was so good that when he played minor lea...

Aw, this is after the poor Edgewater Beach Hotel was no longer on the lakefront, so this image was taken sometime after 1955. My own condo (...

I've had this image on my hard drive for a while, but I can't remember the original source. (If you recognize it, please let me k...

The main road at the left in this picture is Sheridan Road, looking north toward the former Edgewater Beach Hotel located near Sheridan and ...

This has to be one of the niftier collectables we've found from the Edgewater/Uptown area—a brown derby hat (like the one worn by Cha...

  Edgewater Beach Hotel flower shop, 1941. Original image available on eBay at time of writing, item 200705408208

The Chinese Room at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, 1941. Item available on eBay, auction number 370579944464

What a sad day it was in Uptown when the elegant Edgewater Beach Hotel closed its doors. Older residents of the neighborhood still speak fon...

The swanky Edgewater Beach Hotel once ran a flight service for its guests that would take you from the frozen north to the sunny south in ju...

Before it was finally torn down, the Edgewater Beach Hotel served briefly as a student dorm for Loyola University. Image currently availa...

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. during a press conference at the National Conference on Religion and Race at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, ...

Not a view of the Edgewater Beach Hotel you see too often. I had to post it because of the marquee. From the IDOT collection. Source: ...

A great press photo from 1959 showing Marine maneuvers at Montrose, with the Edgewater Beach Hotel in the background. Original available at ...

Okay, this isn't a terribly interesting picture, I know. The caption reads, "Chicago socialite Mrs. Berta Baurf adjusting her ea...

Edgewater Beach Hotel, Unit 2, Now Under Construction for occupancy in 1924: The original card is available here (at least it was at time...

Can you spot your house in this postcard? Note the elevated and surface lines are marked. This was created before the lakefront was filled i...

Images of a Cessna that ran out of gas in Edgewater, 1959. Original images available at time of posting from here: Edgewater Beach Hotel

What a glamorous place the Edgewater Beach Hotel was! The top postcard, of the Black Cat Room, I haven't seen before. The bottom one of ...

Members of the Texas chapter in Chicago for the Combined Group Insurance Convention, August 14, 1955. The woman is Miss Combined Group Irene...