Lakeside Place in 2006: a vacant lot
I’m currently in Chicago for the weekend and did some additional exploring of old Ehrlich family haunts. One place I went to was 807 Lakeside, where I found . . . nothing. The Historical Chicago Tribune archives … turned up a 1970 clipping saying a fire that started in a “vacant basement apartment” at that address spread to upper floors. So it’s possible that whatever was left of the building was torn down afterward and never replaced, though the archives turn up classified ad listings for the same address for a few years afterward. It’s also possible the addresses on that street were renumbered at some point; 809 Lakeside is for some reason right next door to 817 Lakeside. (817 is a larger apartment complex that perhaps replaced smaller buildings at 811, 813, 815, etc.)
Copyright © 2006 by Matthew C. Ehrlich