A former Woolworth's discount store turned local art mural in Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood. July 2014.

 

 

I took this photograph recently, on North Milwaukee Avenue in

Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood, just north of the 3 way

intersection known as Six Corners, where West Irving Park Road,

North Cicero Avenue, and the diagonal North Milwaukee Avenue

cross at a very busy and heavily trafficked section of Chicago.

 

During the 1970's, My mother, my aunt Rosemary and I, would

hop a few Chicago Transit Authority buses from our old near -

southwest side Chicago neighborhood, and travel to the north side

of the city to spend a fun afternoon at the Six Corners shopping

district in the Portage Park neighborhood. As I recall, we always

would stop at this old Wolworth's store, which was actually quite

large. Closed for many years, the east side storefront to this  old

Woolworth's store on the North Cicero Avenue side, was eventually

demolished around 2003. The west side on Milwaukee Avenue, is

now a local art mural for all to see today.