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There's now a City of Downers Grove building where this house is in the picture. I lived in this house when I was in the 2nd grade. ≡ Click to see image ≡
The building in which my grandfather is sitting is the old C. B. & Q. depot in Galesburg, IL. This picture was taken in 1910; the depot burned to the ground in 1911. ≡ Click to see image ≡
That place behind me is the Queen Elizabeth: it burned and sank in Hong Kong harbor a few years later. ≡ Click to see image ≡
This is the house in which the Sylvia Likens murder occurred. It was torn down in 2010 and is now a church parking lot. ≡ Click to see image ≡