The story
Opened 1958; listed for sale 1979; sold to the Park District for $600,000 and demolished 1985.
Everything that was here
- 1958–1985
Sunset Park SchoolSchool
A baby-boom school that the bust made surplus.
See the map in 1959 →
Connected places
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Nearby history
Mount Prospect Country Club
600 S See Gwun Ave · 511 m away
From private luxury dream to bankrupt mob-rumored club to public links.
Mrs. P & Me
100 E Prospect Ave · 1.4 km away
Keefer's Pharmacy
5 W Prospect Ave · 1.4 km away
From 15 prescriptions a day to 285.
Mary Jayne's Ladies Apparel
15 W Prospect Ave · 1.4 km away
A women's clothing shop that outlasted three decades of fashion.
1891 Financial Life/National Catholic Society of Foresters
320 S. School Street · 1.4 km away
Mount Prospect Station (Metra Union Pacific Northwest Line)
13 E Northwest Hwy · 1.5 km away
The 1930 depot that made Mount Prospect a commuter town.
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