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Eric Allix Rogers
February 15, 2017
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Schlitz stained glass at 9401 S. Ewing [Eric Allix Rogers/Chicago Patterns]
How much should be read into the disappearance of a single stained glass window? For the forlorn Bamboo Lounge at 9401 S. Ewing, could it be a warning of worse to come? A distinctive time capsule of a neighborhood tied house tavern, the building clings – for now – to the ragged frontier between the industrial past and the uncertain future of Chicago’s far southeast side. But for how much longer?
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