Hi-Spot Lanes at 6310 W. Grand Avenue, on the Northwest side. Building is still there, but it's a Mexican night club, I believe. I used to bowl here a lot in the 1980s with neighborhood friends, and then play …

Nov 22, 2008 · The lanes split off at Roosevelt Road and reconvened around 24th place, directly after the 23rd Street Viaduct’s southern on/off ramp. With the reconfiguration, all LSD traffic was placed …

Jun 1, 2015 · Saint John's Lutheran Parrish on Montrose Ave. had bowling four lanes in the basement of the church. Last of the church alleys in Chicago. Empire Bowl on Milwaukee Ave. was a second floor …

Other bowling alleys in the area that closed were: Scottsdale Lanes, Ford City Bowl, Miami Bowl, Archer Kedzie Bowl, Argo Bowl, Evergreen Towers, Oak Lawn Bowl.

We hit Turner Lanes a lot, and a place called Bieg's Bowl, an upstairs alley (like Lincoln Square Lanes) that has since burned down, I think. There was Sim's and another tiny alley both in Des Plaines, …

Oct 22, 2012 · According to the book --- Oldest Chicago by David Anthony Witter --- the oldest bowling alley is Southport Lanes at 3325 N. Southport Avenue. Opened in 1922, and is the only bowling alley …

Laredo Lanes was the best. A great date place. A good walk to place, just for the hot dogs. When they were building it, you could still walk past the old Army surplus store near COlumbus and 85th. Across …

Lincoln Lanes? On Lincoln Ave. near Roscoe, I think. It was on the second floor right next to the L tracks and tolerated a bunch of teenagers hanging around in the early sixties. Don't remember doing much …

Jul 1, 2009 · This 1939 rendering from the Tribune is a view west down Congress from Wells. It is an earlier version of the interchange between the Congress Expressway and Wacker Drive, which was …

A “tied house” was a type of saloon that originated in England, but gained infamy in pre-prohibition America. An institution that was believed to promote intemperance, tied houses were one of many …