LOGAN SQUARE — For #ThrowbackThursday, check out what Logan Square looked like before the Illinois Centennial Monument was erected.
The old photograph, likely taken around 1906, shows a view of Logan Square proper looking south from an elevated vantage point and down Kedzie Boulevard. The monument wasn't erected until 1918.
Here's what Logan Square Preservation has to say about the photo:
The flag pole is located approximately where the monument stands today. Thomas Dale grew up in the neighborhood during that time and here's what he has to say: "In those days the Square proper had not been sliced up into a variety of lanes (by safety engineers to promote death and dismemberment); instead it was a small park, and on summer evenings there were many band concerts.”
The image probably dates from around 1906. The “Met. L. Station” visible at the left of the image was built in 1895. The Logan Square Auditorium was built on the corner in 1908 and would have obscured this view of the station house.
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