Tom Sullivan Describes the Area Where he Grew Up

Excerpt from Thomas A. Sullivan's Memories, March 4, 1994.

Tom begins his 12 page "Notes About Things I Remember - Mostly Trivia" noting that the write up has been requested by his grandsons.

"I was born at home on Fillmore Street in the Westside of Chicago, in the upper of a two-flat owned by my grandmother (maternal [Bessie Thompson Madigan]).  It was a true 'back of the yards' neighborhood.

"We faced north.  In our long block from the east:

• St. Louis Ave, going west
• An empty lot
• The Pattons, a little brick home with three generations of widowed or unmarried ladies
• Our brick two-flat
• An empty lot
• The Maloneys, four rough-necked boys and a girl
• A yard owed by our city ward for storage of trucks and maintenance equipment
• A saloon
• Central Park Avenue

"On the north side of Fillmore street, facing south:

•  A City pumping station for water
• More City Ward equipment
• A swimming pool
• A factory making screens
• Homan Ave.
• This is a two block stretch as St. Louis ended at Fillmore

"Behind the above is the Chicago-Northwestern Railroad tracks and behind it a multi-storied Sears Roebuck building that stretched the two blocks from Central Park to Homan Avenues.

"None of this is meaningful to anyone but me -- I spent the first ten years of my life here, and here Helen was born, at home, on 3/11/14.  This was the Center of my Universe."

 This Google Maps shows were 3511 W. Fillmore was located.