The story
Built 1925 at the corner of Northwest Highway and Emerson. Tenants included Hilliard Drug Store, A&P, a dentist, Dr. Louis Koester, Busse Foods, Busse's Flowers, Piano Parlor and Gold + Oak. Sold September 2022; demolished from June 26, 2023 with the inscribed Busse facade stone saved for the new building.
Everything that was here
- 1925–2023
Edward Busse BuildingOther
Nearly a century of Busse-family ownership ended with a $1.7 million sale and a bulldozer.
See the map in 1926 → - 1916–2019
Busse's Flowers & GiftsRetail Store
Started in 1916 shipping cut flowers daily to Chicago merchants, it ended its Mount Prospect run at this corner in 2019.
See the map in 1917 → - 1942–2006
Van Driel's Drug StoreRetail Store
A pharmacist frozen out by the town's doctors survived by selling ham sandwiches and homemade pie.
See the map in 1943 →
Nearby history
Mount Prospect Police & Fire Headquarters (Public Safety Building)
112 E Northwest Hwy · 12 m away
A 1991 public-safety building that lasted barely three decades.
Mount Prospect Station (Metra Union Pacific Northwest Line)
13 E Northwest Hwy · 76 m away
The 1930 depot that made Mount Prospect a commuter town.
Mrs. P & Me
100 E Prospect Ave · 104 m away
Moehling General Store
3 E Northwest Hwy · 133 m away
General store, post office and railroad office rolled into one.
Keefer's Pharmacy
5 W Prospect Ave · 152 m away
From 15 prescriptions a day to 285.
Mary Jayne's Ladies Apparel
15 W Prospect Ave · 161 m away
A women's clothing shop that outlasted three decades of fashion.
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