Main Street.
This photograph looks south down Main Street. The sign for the Chick House Hotel at Main and Elm Streets is visible in the lower middle foreground while the sign on the side of the building for the Illinois Hotel can be seen further down the block.
circa 1900
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Downtown Rockford, Main and Elm Streets.
A view depicting the Illinois Hotel, William Hobart Printing, the Savoy Restaurant, and the Chick House Hotel on the right and E & W Clothing on the left.
circa 1920s
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Downtown Rockford, Main and Elm Streets.
A view depicting the Illinois Hotel, William Hobart Printing, the Savoy Restaurant, and the Chick House Hotel on the right and E & W Clothing on the left.
circa 1920s
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Downtown Rockford, Main and Elm Streets.
A view depicting the Illinois Hotel, William Hobart Printing, the Savoy Restaurant, and the Chick House Hotel on the right and E & W Clothing on the left.
circa 1920s
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Downtown Rockford, Main and Elm Streets.
A view depicting the Illinois Hotel, William Hobart Printing, the Savoy Restaurant, and the Chick House Hotel on the right and E & W Clothing on the left.
circa 1920s
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Downtown Rockford, Main and Elm Streets.
A view depicting the Illinois Hotel, William Hobart Printing, the Savoy Restaurant, and the Chick House Hotel on the right and E & W Clothing on the left.
circa 1920s
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Main and Elm Streets, Downtown Rockford.
A view depicting the Savoy Restaurant and the Chick House Hotel on the right and E & W Clothing on the left.
circa 1920s
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Main and Elm Streets.
A view of downtown Rockford showing the Savoy Restaurant and the Chick House Hotel on the right.
circa 1920s
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D. J. Stewart and Company, South Main Street.
This photograph shows the Chick House Hotel (left) next to the D. J. Stewart and Co. building housing Rockford Business College.
circa 1893
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Chick House Hotel
Thomas Chick purchased the Griggs House Hotel and started the Chick House Hotel in 1888 at the corner of Main and Elm Streets. This photograph looks north up Main Street. Rockford Business College occupied the D. J. Stewart building right next door to the hotel. A horse-drawn sleigh appears just left of center and a Rockford Railway trolley sits in the background.
circa 1885 - 1895
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