Harvey Junction: B&OCT+Milwaukee crosses GTW.Raising Chicago's Street Level to add Sewers.Cliffs/ArcelorMittal/Interlake/Acme Steel Mill at.Was IH: McCormick Office Building: Reaper Block.The Postcard was compared to the USGS with some Sanborn and other stuff for details, then followed up with Google. You can see the ghost of the river running through Cook County Jail. The Collateral Channel was left as a slip, it's still there. In 1938 it had been filled from the Collateral Channel east to the Panhandle and was being filled east of there to Leavitt. The city wanted it gone by 1921 but it took the Feds until 1935 to declare it un-navigable so it could be filled. They left the river open for a while, but it wasn't used and filled up with sewage. The north/south "Collateral Channel" connected the river and the new Sanitary Canal when it opened. The McCormick Works was built on the West Fork of the South Branch, which kept going to Mud Lake. The IN connects, crosses, parallels, and has trackage rights on it. Right above (north) of the IN bridge the Burlington's "Lumber District", which you can just barely see curving off the Panhandle, crosses Western on their own bridge and curves up behind Blue Island Ave. The very left of the red area is two railroad bridges over Western Ave., the IN crosses and then goes south (down) into the factory, along the river. It runs on the south side of 26th St., the light line north (above) the yard, then crosses the panhandle at grade and runs along the north side of McCormick Station. The IN main line comes in from the west (left), just above the tall building. Wagons and trucks transferred cargo to the trains or each other. The yard shows up as woods on Google in 2023.ĭirectly east (above right) of that yard the light curve is the IN's freight house, McCormick Station. The light square is a material yard and shed. It curves between the northbound Panhandle and the IN tracks west on 26th St. The railroad yard in the middle left is the Illinois Northern, IH's company RR ( ). Google shows a Water Department yard there in 2023. Just left of the curving bridge is where Sharon Clancy/Ken Gidewall's 1911 picture of the Tractor Factory is. Just above the Airplane View label is 31st St. You can see a straight line above the rail yard. It was the main street that the McCormick Works was built on, Western was just the edge of nowhere.įrom the corner of Western and Blue Island 26th St. The main drag running from Western, at the very left corner of the red, up to the top center along the side of the red, is Blue Island Ave. The street just east (above) the Panhandle line Western Ave. To the north (left) it crosses the river and keeps going. On the very right is the beginning of the 8-track bridges. Near the south (right) side, the steel bridges over 31st St. The railroad going side to side, between the red and yellow, is the NORTH/SOUTH running "Panhandle Line" (and others). I think the postcard is looking Northeast from above California Ave. It can be compared with the 1929 USGS Englewood Quad ( ). THE POSTCARD is great, but it's all at angles. All gone todayĪssociation for Great Lakes Maritime History postedĬhicagoHistory has an interactive picture of the works.Ī video advertising their complete line of tractors. at the time of the photo).ĭavid Daruszka McCormick Reaper Works in the background. Historical Photo of the Week: Workers prepare to raise a sunken tug boat out of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal on July 12, 1922, viewed looking roughly northwest from an area near Damen Ave. The McCormick Reaper Works, 26th and Oakley, 1928, Chicago I don't think the workers used this entrance? Photo dated 1926 McCormick Works at Western and Blue Island. McCormick - International Harvester, Wisconsin Historical Society, Image ID: 45297 McCormick Works (Blue Island & Western) photographed from the opposite bank of the Chicago River, 1914. Twine mill with shipping platform at the McCormick Reaper Works, just after construction.įarmall Tractors and Tanks during World War II at the Tractor Works, 2600 West 31st Street.McCormick Reaper Works factory and rail yard as seen across a canal.Quitting Time at McCormick Reaper Works.Paul posted three more pictures to Forgotten Chicago.
And I think it is after 1915 because the building on the left appears to be the new one mentioned above. I think the stretch of water in the photo is the South Branch rather than the canal. The factory was located at Blue Island and Western Avenues in the Chicago subdivision called "Canalport." It was closed in 1961.ĭarla Zailskas in another posting of this picture commented that it was "circa 1900." In 1902 it became the McCormick Works of the International Harvester Company. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine company before 1902. Southeast panorama of the McCormick Reaper Works, rail yard and canal.
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