#blommer

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Milwaukee, Kinzie, & Desplaines in 1955 by Chicago Transit Authority Via Flickr: “A CTA #56 Milwaukee bus crosses the intersection of Milwaukee/Kinzie/Desplaines on its way northwest in February, 1955. This view faces southeast, generally looking down Milwaukee. Kinzie crosses from the upper left to the lower right, while Desplaines is the street that comes from the lower left and ramps up to the right edge of the image. At the time, Milwaukee was a thru-street from Lake Street on up. Today this bridge is gone and Milwaukee essentially begins here (though there is a short section at the south end, between Lake and Fulton, that remains). As further reference, on the left, where the Banquet Hall Restaurant & Lounge is, is where Blommer Chocolate is today. Where the tracks are on the lower right is where the Jewel-Osco (and the Divvy station out in front on Desplaines). Behind the Milwaukee bus is where a park now lies.”

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Nils Jakob Olsson Blommér, Bust portrait of a black man

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Blommer Chocolate by Paul Fortini Via Flickr: “Blommer Chocolate is one of the last remaining examples of industrial Near North Side/Near West Side. Blommer makes chocolate for other companies and any Chicagoan can tell you of the sweet chocolate aroma that permeates the area. Blommer does sell its freshly made sweets at their on-site store.”

August 20, 2019 

Photo by Paul Fortini

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“Union Pacific GP15-1 UPY 551 switches tank cars at the Blommer Chocolate Company in Chicago while a Metra train out of Ogilvie passes above.”

July 6, 2005

Photo by Art Gross

(via 1515.21-UP Y551 07-06-2005 | Union Pacific GP15-1 UPY 551 sw… | Flickr)

[marmarinou]

Many Chicagoans are familiar with the smell of cocoa and chocolate that comes from the Blommer Chocolate factory located just northwest of the Loop at the intersection of Kinzie St, Milwaukee Ave, and Desplaines St. They are mainly a supplier to other companies making chocolates and candies, but they do have an outlet store at the factory. Today the Chicago Tribune reported that the outlet store will be closing at the end of February. But the factory will continue operating.

The factory is served by not one but two separate rail lines, one on the lower level and one on the upper level. Here are some photos I took in 2013 showing the west side of the factory and the upper-level rail line. Both lines are now owned by the Union Pacific but were originally the Chicago & North Western.

In the bottom photos are details from the 1931 railroad bridge over Desplaines Street, including remnants of a C&NW herald that was painted on the bridge.

[marmarinou]

Tom Burke Photo Blommer Chocolate Lower Spur Chicago Feb 1990 #1 by Tom Burke Via Flickr: “Scan from an original 35mm slide. Blommer used to receive inbound loads of cocoa beans in burlap bags via boxcar on this lower spur. I recall seeing spilled coca beans and shells on the ground. If you look carefully there are two boxcars in this photo. I remember seeing a boxcar shoved too far down the end of this spur and etching new flangeways in the asphalt. Amazingly Blommer still receives shipments by rail on the rebuilt spur, but now it comes in tank cars.”

Chicago

February 1990

Photo by Tom Burke

(Note the Metra commuter train passing overhead in the background.)

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UMESHU

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