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Throwback Thursday: Logan Square Then-and-Now Photos

By Darryl Holliday | July 31, 2014 9:03am
 A new exhibition shows Logan Square then and now.
A new exhibition shows Logan Square then and now.
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Logan Square Preservation.

LOGAN SQUARE — Can you imagine Logan Square without its iconic eagle monument? We can't either.

The neighborhood’s evolution has been documented from all angles since the 1930s, when a new Blue Line train route was constructed beneath the heart of the community and thousands of families and small businesses turned a farm into one of the city’s most bustling neighborhoods.

In the following photos, streetcars can be seen along Milwaukee Avenue to the square’s east in 1930; a car sits parked at a barely recognizable corner near Wrightwood Avenue and Kedzie Boulevard circa 1915; a stretch now home to several Logan Square restaurants and cafes can be seen from the south end of the park circa 1900; and a boy stands near what is now Comfort Station, before the iconic Centennial monument was built in 1918.

A hundred of these and other photos will be on display in August, within view of the historic Centennial monument at Comfort Station, 2579 N. Milwaukee Ave., for “Picturing Logan Square: An Exhibition of Rare Images,” presented by Logan Square Preservation.

 

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