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Old Chicago
Chicago History
Journal
An amazing work of love and scholarship by Sharon E.
Williams, a.k.a. Chicagobookbabe, amateur historian, bibliophile, and
student, with an unnatural and utterly romanticized view of Chicago
history.
Chicago
History Museum
Formerly the Chicago Historical Society, the museum
houses 22 million artifacts from Chicago and U.S. history.
Chicago
Landmarks
City of Chicago landmarks page.
Forgotten Chicago
Discovering,
documenting, and preserving little-known elements of Chicago's
infrastructure, architecture, neighborhoods, and general cityscape, both
existing and historical.
Museum of Classic Chicago
Television
Online museum furthering the acquisition, preservation,
exhibition, education, and nostalgic enjoyment of classic Chicago
television broadcasts.
Preservation
Chicago
Citizens advocating for the preservation of Chicago's
historic architecture.
Other Chicago
Oldests
Oldest Bar in Chicagoland (and one of country's oldest 20
taverns)
Village Tavern (1849). For more
information, see Sean Parnell's Historic
Bars of Chicago.
Oldest
Beer Garden
Resi's
Bierstube (1965). For more information, see Sean Parnell's Historic
Bars of Chicago.
Oldest Beer Distributor (in U.S.)
Louis Glunz Beer (1888). For more information, see Sean
Parnell's Historic
Bars of Chicago.
Oldest Blues
Bar
Kingston Mines (1968).
For more information, see Sean Parnell's Historic
Bars of Chicago.
Oldest Chinatown
Restaurant
Won Kow (1927).
Oldest Citizens'
Crime-Fighting Organization (in U.S.)
Chicago Crime Commission
(1919)
Oldest Continuously Family-Owned Enterprise in
Chicago
House of Glunz (1888). For more
information, see Sean Parnell's Historic
Bars of Chicago.
Oldest Continuously Run Tavern in the City
Schaller's Pump (1881). For more information, see Sean
Parnell's Historic
Bars of Chicago.
Oldest Continuously Run Tavern on the North
Side
Kelly's Pub (1935). For more
information, see Sean Parnell's Historic
Bars of Chicago.
Oldest Continuous Tavern License on the North
Side
Durkin's (1934). For more
information, see Sean Parnell's Historic
Bars of Chicago.
Oldest Division Street Dance Floor
Mothers, The Original (1968). For more information, see Sean
Parnell's Historic
Bars of Chicago.
Oldest Fan Club of the Chicago
Cubs
West Side Rooters Social Club (1908, revived 2008). For
more information, see Anbritt Stengele's Sports
Traveler Chicago.
Oldest
Government Watchdog Group
Better Government
Association (1923)
Oldest Jazz Club
Green Mill Cocktail Lounge (1907). For more
information, see Sean Parnell's Historic
Bars of Chicago.
Oldest Jefferson Park
Tavern
Gale Street Inn (1963). For more information, see Sean
Parnell's Historic
Bars of Chicago.
Oldest Labor History Society (in
U.S.)
Illinois Labor History Society (1969)
Oldest Law
Firm
Winston & Strawn LLP (1853)
Oldest Liquor License (first one
post-Prohibition)
The Berghoff (1933). For more information,
see Sean Parnell's Historic
Bars of Chicago.
Oldest Magic Shop (and oldest
family-run magic shop in North America)
Magic Inc. (1926).
Oldest Mexican-American
Business in Chicago
La Guadalupana (1945).
Oldest Moving
Company
Reebie Storage & Moving Co. (1880).
Oldest Nightclub
Neo (1979).
For more information, see Sean Parnell's Historic
Bars of Chicago.
Oldest No-Kill
Animal Shelter
Lakeshore Animal Shelter (1950).
Oldest Public
Golf Course (west of the Allegheny Mountains)
Downers Grove
Public Golf Course (1892).
Oldest Real
Estate Company (and one of oldest in U.S.)
Baird &
Warner (1855).
Oldest Rush
and Division Bar
The Lodge (1957). For more information, see
Sean Parnell's Historic
Bars of Chicago.
Oldest Service
Provider to Those with Severe Mental Illness (in
Illinois)
Thresholds Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Center (1959)
Oldest Small
Venue for Alternative Music
Elbo Room (1989). For more
information, see Sean Parnell's Historic
Bars of Chicago.
Oldest Tour Boat
Company
Wendella Boats (1935). For more information, see Dr.
Phyllis J. Kozlowski's The
Chicago River Architecture Tour.
Oldest Wicker
Park Music Venue
Phyllis' Musical Inn (1954). For more
information, see Sean Parnell's Historic
Bars of Chicago.
Oldest Wine Bar
Webster's Wine Bar (1994). For more information, see Sean Parnell's
Historic
Bars of Chicago.
Oldest Zen Center
Zen Buddhist
Temple of Chicago (1949)
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