wabash

A railway station?

Not a railway station, a sports arena, convention center, and exhibition hall.

This is the second building with that name, and was located on Wabash Avenue, between 14th and 16th Streets until it was demolished in the 1980's. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Coliseum

The 1912 Progressive Party ("Bull Moose") Convention was held at this same venue in August. It nominated former President Teddy Roosevelt for President and Governor Hiram Johnson of California for Vice President. Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, won the election in November.

The Google Maps marker for the Coliseum is incorrect. It shows the Coliseum as between 16th and 18th Streets, but it was actually on the east side of Wabash between 14th and 16th Streets (per the Wikipedia article). A Buddhist center called Soka Gakka International and its parking lots are now on the site. Coliseum Park (which commemorates the Coliseum) is located acros the street on the southwest corner of 14th Place and Wabash.

Do we know what street that is? Just wondering if any of those stone structures are still standing.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Coliseum

Do we know what street that's on? I'd love to see if there are any remaining remnants from this time.

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I saw this Spectacular Photo in:
Chicagoland Architecture, Engineering and Art!
(Open Join!)

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Ahhh... okay... 15th and Wabash (from the wiki link above). South of Roosevelt, huh? hmmm... I'll have to wander around down there and see what I can find. Google says there's just a park there now called, "Coliseum Park."

Ematu: According to the Chicago Park District website, the park was named in honor of the coliseum that had existed on a part of the site at East 14th and South Wabash Avenues. If you get over there, let us know if you find any remnants from the time.

1912 Republican National Convention held at Chicago Coliseum Chicago, Cook County, Illinois June 18 to 22, 1912 resulting in the nomination of: WILLIAM H. TAFT for President JAMES S. SHERMAN of New York, for Vice-President

Accusations by Theodore Roosevelt of theft of Roosevelt delegates by the Taft cabal led to T.R.'s bolting the Republican Party and holding a Progressive Party ("Bull Moose") convention at this same venue in August. The split led to a fracturing of the vote in the November election which made Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic Party candidate, the winner. (Candidate Sherman actually died before the election, and was replaced on the Republican ticket by Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University.)