The story
Founded c. 1902 selling coal, feed, salt, brick and sand, later lumber; building demolished 1959; continued as Wille Hardware until the late 1970s or early 1980s.
Everything that was here
- 1902–present
Wille Coal and Lumber / Wille HardwareRetail Store
The lumber yard that built suburban Mount Prospect.
See the map in 1903 → - 1880–1902
Wille Cheese FactoryOther
Cheese and butter by the wagonload to Chicago, mud permitting.
See the map in 1881 →
Nearby history
Mount Prospect Public House
18 W Busse Ave · 71 m away
The Ye Olde Town Inn space came back to life in 2024 as a 5,000-square-foot gastropub and event venue.
Station 34
34 S Main St · 114 m away
Prospect Theater
118 S Main St · 122 m away
Mount Prospect's first real movie house, 450 seats beside the truck traffic of Route 83.
Central Continental Bakery
101 South Main Street · 151 m away
Capannari's Ice Cream
10 S Pine St · 182 m away
Gourmet ice cream served inside an 1880s general store.
Moehling General Store
3 E Northwest Hwy · 182 m away
General store, post office and railroad office rolled into one.
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