Demolition of the Jakter Hotel in Chicago Illinois. February 1983.

Demolition of the Jakter Hotel in Chicago Illinois. February 1983., a photo by Eddie from Chicago on Flickr.

I took this photograph during a very overcast February afternoon in 1983.

After many years, the old brown brick Jakter Hotel at the southeast corner of South Kedzie Avenue and West 47th Street in Chicago's Elsdon neighborhood, was bring demolished.

This transient skid row type of hotel which had once featured a strip club in the hotel's basement lounge, was finally comdemned to make way for a new strip mall.

Thanks.
Eddie K.