C&NW Grain Elevator Along the Main Stem of the Chicago River

(Satellite, the land was occupied by Sun-Times and is now occupied by Trump Tower)

This elevator was served by the C&NW/Galina & Chicago Union railroad and it was located in its State Street Yard.

Note the grain elevators on the right. This wood swing bridge was the first State Street Bridge.

Boffie Fischer Kelly posted
I found this picture online in 2011. I don't have much information on it other than it was Chicago about 1870. I know it is a little later than this group is targeting but I thought it was a neat picture.

Dave Gudewicz: Here's an article that describes all the State Street bridges:

https://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=truss/statest/

Bobbie Fischer Kelly: So by the article above [Historic Bridges], the picture I posted was built in 1864 and destroyed by fire in 1871.

ChicagoTribune
Mile 326.4 A cofferdam was built in 1902 so that workers could pour concrete for the subsection of the State Street Bridge. But the wooden barrier often leaked, which added to construction delays. This view is from the south bank looking northeast. The Rush Street Bridge is in the background. — The Lost Panoramas, May 16, 2013

MWRD posted
A northeasterly view of the State Street Bridge over the Chicago River on March 1, 1903.
Dennis DeBruler I knew C&NW had a State Street Yard along the river, but I did not know they used to have a grain elevator here.
http://clearinghouse.isgs.illinois.edu/.../0bwq08007.jpg

 

This is a lighter exposure.

MWRD posted
A northeasterly view of the State Street bridge over the Chicago River on March 1, 1903.

1901 Sanborn
Sanborn fire insurance map provided courtesy of the Map Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

1901 Sanborn

Sanborn fire insurance map provided courtesy of the Map Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

It is the elevator near the middle background of this view down the Main Stem.

Glen Miller posted
Wolf Point in 1885
Raymond Kunst shared a post
Neil Gale My article https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/.../wolf-point...
ChicagoLoopBridges posted

MWRD posted
A northeasterly view of the State Street Bridge over the Chicago River on March 1, 1903.

Historic Chicago posted
Rush Street Bridge (1900)
ChicagoHistory
[I include this photo of the Rush Street Bridge because it provides another view of the grain elevator.]

MWRD posted
A view from the Chicago River looking toward the east side of State Street on the north side of the Chicago River on February 25, 1902. The stairway at left leads up to the street and what remains of an old State Street bridge that was being replaced. The new bridge would be completed in 1903 and was later replaced with the current bridge in 1949.
[The yard would be to the left of the warehouse and grain elevator. Is that the Kraft factory in the background?]