1889: On the Lakefront at Harrison Street during a Decoration Day celebration in 1889

On the Lakefront at Harrison Street during a Decoration Day celebration in 1889

A noticeable change from that distant day forty years ago. Not an automobile to be seen, no Park Row Station, everything vastly different. For that time it was a great crowd. By today’s standards, just a handful of people.

Courtesy of “Chicago and Its Makers” (Chicago: Felix Mendelsohn, 1929).

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