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Dearborn Street
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An elevated view of Dearborn Street businesses, showing trucks and horse-drawn wagons parked in front of a row of mainly four-story brick warehouse buildings. There are pedestrians on the street and sidewalks. A rooftop sign advertises the Steele-Wedeles Company, a wholesale grocery distributor located at 312-322 North Dearborn Street. The firm was in business from 1862 to 1953. A sign on the front of another building advertises "Forbidden Fruit, 'Frutta Proibita,' Wine Grape Juice."
1918
Middleton, Forest, 1892-1990
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WHi 129031
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