Path: news.cs.indiana.edu!lynx.unm.edu!jobone!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!panix!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.cs.columbia.edu!news.pipeline.com!not-for-mail From: dra@pipeline.com (David Alpert) Newsgroups: alt.college.tunnels Subject: Re: silos Date: 4 Dec 1994 15:41:45 -0500 Organization: The Pipeline Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3bt9ia$k24@pipe2.pipeline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pipe2.pipeline.com daniels@sybase.com (Barry Daniels) wrote: The Nike site that is most interesting >to me is in Chicago, right on Lake Michigan at about >55th street, right across the street from the Museum of >Science and Industry, of all things. It is now >parkland, and very few peopl, except long-time >Chicagoans and residents of across-the-street Hyde >Park, even know what it was! > > Does anybody remember any of the other Nike sites around Chicago. I seem to remember one along the Edens Expressway, I think near Lake Street(?) And I know there was one in Homewood which is now a park; my mother-in-law, who lived nearby, remembers seeing the missiles raised and lowered from the silos on occasion. <>