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750 N Rush Street

this building is also known as poinsettia apartment

Don't go here looking too "average joe" or you won't get served. We sat around for over 15 minutes without even a "hi" from the waiter. I'm convinced it's because by buddy was wearing a backwards baseball hat. My buddy is studying chinese medicine and is the most liberal person you'll ever meet, but it's all about image at these places.

If you love to hang out with pretentious trust funders, than this place is for you.

This boundary is inaccurate. Lincoln Square is a city neighobrhood, not a community. It spans north and takes up part of the Ravenswood community. Good description though.

Rogers Park has one of the worst aldermen in the city. The blog "Broken Heart" tells how much Joe Moore has his head up his ass!!

if you're looking for Harry Caray's restaurant, feel free to create another place tag; as for this tag, I've renamed it to the Chicago Varnish Company building, as this building has been known as this a lot longer than it has been known as harry caray's, and I feel it better reflects the historical nature of this placemark.

Limited Service? Its just a roof, no building just a small roof. Platform is crushed limestone.

Home of the Falcons and about 768 of the brightest PreK through 8th grade students on the face of the earth!

great building, great management, but the man in apartment 8J is absolutely crazy. don't rent/buy on the 8th floor

Hollywood came to the West Side Wednesday afternoon (08/29/07) to blow up the five-story administration building that Brach's Candy abandoned with the rest of its sprawling complex in 2003. The movie is the Batman "The Dark Knight"

The Olympia Center is 727 feet, making it Chicago's tallest mid-block building.

the sign on the front of church (the building directly to the right of the school) has a white plastic sign over the old "our lady of the angels" sign that reads "new miracle temple" I think it is being leased by the catholic church.

it is a crying shame that there is no marker or anything here to show where this great historic building once stood. (and ROARED!)

OK whiny. Sounds like you should have just paid your late fees in the first place.

Just remember, it's improving day by day. This EL station often smells like "county fair". Hold your breath while in the stairwell, believe me. The turnstyle area is normal, so don't fear. It's safe, I think it just has water leakage problems. Hopefully it will be re-vamped like many of the other El stations.

This cute pub is great for those who aren't into the busy city bars, and want a place to go and have a few beers in a laid-back environment. It's the beautiful woodwork and clean, comfortable interior that make this Gaelic bar so inviting. If you live near Jarvis Ave. in Rogers Park, stop in and meet some of your neighbors.

I live one block from this small bagel and deli. Trust me, it is worth stopping in for a steamed bagel sandwich, or even to buy some deli cuts. Each day a different sandwich and cut are on special, so you're always tempted to try something new. Don't miss this place, it's a keeper.

Comiskey Park (1910-1990) During the last 8 years of Comiskey Park's existence, the annual attendance surpassed the 2 million mark three times, including the final season when the team contended for much of the year before losing the division title to the Oakland Athletics. Comiskey Park was demolished in 1991, a process that started from behind the right field corner, and took all summer. The last portion to come down was the center field bleachers and the "exploding" scoreboard. The site of the old park was turned into a parking lot to serve those attending games at the new Comiskey Park (later renamed U.S. Cellular Field). Bill Veeck once remarked that "There is no more beautiful sight in the world than a ballpark full of people!" On its best days, Comiskey was stuffed to the gills, with 55,000 people or more lining the aisles and even standing for nine (or eighteen) innings on the sloping ramps that criss-crossed behind the scoreboard. The nearly-fully enclosed stands had a way of capturing and reverberating the noise without any artificial enhancement. As a Chicago sportswriter once remarked, "Wrigley Field yayed and Comiskey Park roared." 'Old' Comiskey's home plate is a marble plaque on the sidewalk next to U.S. Cellular Field, and the field is a parking lot. Foul lines are painted on the lot. Also, the spectator ramp across 35th Street is designed in such a way (partly curved, partly straight but angling east-northeast) that it echoes the outline of part of the old grandstand. When the Sox won the 2005 World Series, their victory parade began at U.S. Cellular Field, and then circled the block where old Comiskey had stood, before heading on a route through various south side neighborhoods and toward the downtown.