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There was a time when Chicago Heights had some of the best restaurants outside of Chicago, Zaranti's Alcazar, The Tivoli, Mr. Benny's, Savoia's, and Cipriani's There was Ada’s, Marnell’s, Enzo’s, The Carmel Corn Shop, Venice, Dog and Suds, Chicago Heights Country Club, Dandy’s, Jack in the Box, Lorenzetti’s, The Liberty, Dimitri’s, Schoops, Tender Trap, The Bum Steer, The Looking Glass, Skyline, Liang’s, Henry’s, Pearson’s Bakery, American Bagel, Marconi Bakery, The Egg and I, Dairy Queen, Arby’s The Red Barn & later The Beer Barn, Luigi’s Pizza, Alferno’s Pizza, Azzarello’s Pizza, Faso’s Pizza, Shakey’s Pizza, Pizza Hut, Nino’s Pizza, Angelo’s Pizza, The Rib Cage, Prince Castle, Rebec’s Ice Cream, Perros Brothers Italian Ice, Arthur Treachers Fish and Chips, Chicken Unlimited, The Red Wheel, Long John Silvers, Bozo’s Hot Dogs, Helen’s Doughnut Shop, Dunkin Doughnuts, 2 McDonalds locations, Wendy’s, Burger King, White Castle, KFC, Church’s, Browns, Popeye’s, Taco Bell, Harold’s, Pop Mart, The Fickle Finger, Momma Mary’s, Perlas, Perlas II, Tijuana Taco, Three Star, Easy Snack, Golden Bear, Barnaby’s, Lum’s, Bonanza, Ponderosa, Baskin Robbins, Zarlengo’s, Tin Cup Pass, Svaboda’s, Bub’s Pub, Romano’s Liquor, Shalomar, Bob & Clara’s, Biamonti’s Tavern, The Back Room, Night Moves, Kip’s Place, Starship Night Club, Heights Banquet Hall. It had some of the best shopping, Garafolo's, A & P, Kroger's, Ultra, Jewel’s, Osco, Hi-way Market, D & D Foods, Dino’s, Century Foods, Cub Foods, Aldi, Montgomery Wards, Marshal Field, Sears, Carson Pirie Scott, Ace Hardware, Tops, McDade, Cavette Drugs, Ben Franklin, The Hobby Shop, Hallmark, Mitty’s Shoppers World, Norge, 7-11, Kmart, Service Merchandise, Pier 1 Imports, Olympic Printing, White Hen Pantry, Bernardi’s, Busy Bee Nursery, Fasel Furniture, Liesing Lumber, Chicago Heights Lumber, Nelson’s Nursery, Touch Head Shop, Uptown florist, Mace’s Barber Shop, Dino’s Den, Hilltop Liquors, Squeeze In, Armida Florist, The In Between Salon, Ungaro’s, Gianetti’s Specialty Shop, Petrarca’s, Lando’s Meat Market, Schwinn Cycles, The Old Volks Home, Kloss Jewelers, Yaseen Jewelers, Jorgensen’s Jewelry, Kline’s Department Store, Kresgge’s, Haymen Hawkins, Woolworth’s, Rau’s, Kinney’s Shoes, Chicago Heights Dairy, Nortown Theater, Lincoln Theater, Marcus Cinemas, Olympia Bowling, Chicago Heights Tennis and Racquetball Club, Vicari’s Gun Shop, Starship Video, Family Video, Chicago Heights Animal Hospital, Magic Touch Cleaners, Holiday Inn, Hansen’s Auto Spa, Prairie State Car Wash, Pagoria’s, Peter Lavine Pontiac, Jack Brown Buick, Heights Pontiac, Pete Yansen Chevrolet Toyota of Chicago Heights, Volkswagon of Chicago Heights, Pettice Auto, Bill’s Citco, House of Charles Tuxedos, Music Mart. It had great service companies like Bonick Plumbing, Stelter Plumbing, Able & Willing Plumbing, Soderburg Plumbing, Jack Waters Plumbing, Area Plumbing Supply, Merts Heating, Vitelli Concrete, General Millwork, Leoni Trucking, Bramonti Construction, Lobue Carpentry, Ruth Saldano Catering, Losco Electric, Able Vacuum, Soderburg Vending, Scott Sign, Garage World, Chicago Heights Construction, Orr Construction, Faso Excavating, Gliottoni Construction DiCicco Concrete, Rossetto and Stasel Masonary, Gabi Iron and Metal, Coleman Roofing, Brooks Welding, Don Johns Garage, Firestone Tires, Monarch Auto, Imperial Auto, Chicago Heights Glass, Vlodeman Glass, Kimble Glass, Broadway Auto, Funk Forging, Mohawk Tablet, Stifel Nicholas Brokers, Marks Insurance, The Chicago Heights Star Newspaper, WCGO Radio, Mount Carmel Club, Polish PD Club, Moose Lodge, American Legion. It once had St. James Hospital, Suburban Heights Medical Center, The Otto Clinic, Illinois Bell, AT&T, Skyline Answering Service, Gineris Accounting, Zaranti Accountants, Hirsh Funeral Home, Hub Funeral Home, Doctors, Lawyers, Dentists, Realtors, Travel Agents, Churches, Industry, Manufacturing, Festivals, Fireworks and Parades. Chicago Heights had it all. Bloom Township Republicans sold their souls to the bad joke they called The Unity Party. A string of DEMOCRAT Mayors, Ciambrone, Lopez, and the worst, David Gonzales, totally destroyed Chicago Heights. It’s now just another DEMOCRAT dung pile.

I remember watching them burn the cross on Prospect St. Mountain, across the street from Woodrow Wilson school. I watched it from the window of my aunts 2nd story apartment. I remember my mother telling me it was the KKK.

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Nice. I miss a Bottisti pizza.

You drove through the old Eastside - so much is torn down & abandoned - in the old days up to the mid 60s that neighborhood was half Italian & half Polish / some Lithuanian - Marnells Drive In - Marconi Bakery - my friend’s father’s tavern “the Breeze Inn” & St Joseph’s Catholic Church - I remember Joe’s Tavern , had a big picture window facing East End Ave , you could watch the man spinning pizza dough above his head - my Mother was from “the Hill” but the East Side was a vibrant neighborhood back then - long ago & gone but the memories of old CH will remain forever 👍😀

Thanks for sharing

This decay happened over many decades. 😟

A trip to Chicago Heights is NEVER complete without a trip to STARSHIP VIDEO!

They barely live down there

Wheres the physics and paganism federals at ? Tell them satanic cults with there Marijuana should be banned. Since your to dang late for 1800s to 1970s maybe that your court system hang paganism folks that is nothen to do with Satanism. Look at the star of the flag inleast its not showing upside-down like a true Satanism cults.

Chicago Heights hosts a FedEx Freight Transit Yard, Ford Stamping Plant and a few other viable industrial sites, and it's really not as dangerous as the other collar suburbs immediately south of Chicago, but it lost its hospital. More urban decline.

Once a manufacturing mecca and nice place to shop, the "Heights" has turned into a gang shooting gallery at night. A friend of mine finally dumped his really nice house and moved deep into Indiana. He got out just in time in 2022. Living the good life in the cornfields away from Chicago's gang influence.

Never been there but my father’s family was raised at 1433 Center. You drove past their house. Thank you!!

I was driving West on interstate 80 a couple years ago and got stuck in a massive traffic jam near Chicago due to road construction. On my way bac traveling East I thought I would by pass the construction and veer off of interstate 80 and take route 30 which parallels 80, but takes through you Chicago Heights. I will NEVER make that mistake again. I have traveled all over this Country and never seen a road open to the public that has been in worse shape. The potholes on the road were the size of craters. These potholes were so big that they would break your car. You had to drive like you were on a serpentine course to avoid the potholes. At some points I had to take my foot off the gas pedal and just idle at 1-2mph so I wouldn't get a flat or worse. I noticed home made signs along the road "Fix a Flat". That told me that this road does not receive ANY maintenance whatsoever. This is worst I ever seen in America.

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Anytime you see a CEDA office the demographics are obvious.

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I agree with you 💯 percent town is shit

Blast from the past. There is a big lake nearby. Great waterskiing and boating. I forget the name. Cabins and small homes. Great place

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a funny thing about J' ave was that during the late 60's 70's , 80's and very early 90's from 172'nd st all the way to 180'th st it was the capital drop of for most of the stolen cars on the east coast

all the way to the late 60's and very early 70's it was mostly Jewish , and upper working class whites , but by the very late 60's those damn PR's and blks who were teachers , firemen , cops and nurses , bus drivers , and grocery store owners and veterans started to move into the north bronx areas the white sections were being infiltrated slowly but surely for the more latins and blacks coming in more and more whited would leave = thank the gods for that

it was 1991 I saw the terminator 2 on the billboard at the united artists theater background

Worked at Coen’s Dept Store, Washburn, Edward’sBox and Paper in my ill spent youth. Signed up for the Air Force at he recruiting office on Main St. and never returned.

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I remember that my family went to the restaurant in the Bronx all the times I love it I am sad not anymore because of convirus 19 ok

Eastside has great memories! Many wonderful Italians came from this side of town. I was born at st. James. My italian grandparents immigrated and settled in chicago heights. All towns have run down areas, ya gotta ask yourself, why no investment in the area?

Thanks for this - I used to live in Amsterdam, and relocated quite some ways away... I haven't been back there in about 15-20 years. I do miss it. I refuse to bad-mouth the city where I grew up. I know it's changed - and perhaps not always for the best, but all of America has changed. Time hasn't stopped anywhere except maybe "Mayberry" or something. I'd love to be back in Amsterdam. Excellent video quality, by the way. Again, thanks for making this clip available. I greatly appreciate it.

So many good memories. I miss you Susie bell and auntie cookie

i saw my school lol

1236 Lincoln Ave was my home from 1981 till 1997 when I moved out East to Rhode Island. I hated living in The Heights. I couldn’t wait to grow up and leave. My old house is no longer there. It’s just an abandoned plot. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Do the drug dealers on Wentworth still sit on their porches and yell out "what you need?" As you drive by? Ah well good things can't last forever

New York native here. I still want to know who was the dumb schmuck that decided to plant all those trees underneath the power lines? Those trees are at least 75 feet tall at maturity and they are underneath power lines that are 20 feet above the ground. Trimmed, they look absolutely ridiculous. Not to mention that they blow over during storms, tear down the power lines, and leave zillions of people without power. Wait, wait - don't tell me - the stupid person that made this decision is still collecting a pension check, paid for by your taxpayer dollars!!!

Wow. I lived here in ‘74 on S. Williams St. when I was 4. The house was VERY haunted. This brings back so many memories, although I couldn’t tell you where you were on any of these streets.

so so well done

You just focus on the same blighted areas , just driving around in circles passing the same buildings. Try going to different areas of the Heights which are much nicer. But that’s not the image you are looking to project? Are you?

Got go on a national parks tour in 2019. Everyone should do it in their lifetime.😊

It's a must see in person.

I loved that video thank you so much! I grew up there it looks good same as i remember with some different paint and different names on business THANKS

Never been there but I kind of like the area, clean everything mowed and no junk cars, trash and piles of junk tires. I used to live around O'Hare airport in the 60s and 70s.

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Absolutely stunning..What a beautiful representation of the beauty of our culture

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I will say, Johnstown is a nice place. This video brings back so many memories.

The V..A. sent me to a homeless shelter in Chicago Heights. What a crap town !

RIP Ice Mike 🕊️ … Andover Boyz forever , this is not the Westside of CH but I lived on both. Born on the Southside but gotta lot of memories out there, them CH boyz go hard 🗣️

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