The story
Jack Keefer bought the Prospect Avenue pharmacy in 1949 and ran it through the suburban boom; the business moved to Arlington Heights in 2017.
Everything that was here
- 1949–2017
Keefer's PharmacyRetail Store
From 15 prescriptions a day to 285.
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Nearby history
Mary Jayne's Ladies Apparel
15 W Prospect Ave · 11 m away
A women's clothing shop that outlasted three decades of fashion.
Moehling General Store
3 E Northwest Hwy · 62 m away
General store, post office and railroad office rolled into one.
Mount Prospect Station (Metra Union Pacific Northwest Line)
13 E Northwest Hwy · 77 m away
The 1930 depot that made Mount Prospect a commuter town.
Prospect Theater
118 S Main St · 142 m away
Mount Prospect's first real movie house, 450 seats beside the truck traffic of Route 83.
Edward Busse Building
100 E Northwest Hwy · 152 m away
Nearly a century of Busse-family ownership ended with a $1.7 million sale and a bulldozer.
Central Continental Bakery
101 South Main Street · 159 m away
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