Postcards as an unreliable depiction of an idealized past, an old-timey archaic science, and a plucky Chicago survivor that’s housed a wild variety of tenants–this is a fun one.

Once the heart of Chicago’s Nord Seite, Lakeview was crowded with German joints like Math Igler’s Casino. Not that kind of casino, though–Igler’s was sauerbraten and singing waiters rather than slots.

An Art Moderne factory turned liquor store feels like an especially Chicago version of adaptive reuse.