Minooka, IL: Extant/Chicago, Ottawa & Peoria Interurban Depot and Old Grain Elevator

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Street View, Oct 2013

Roger Kujawa posted eight photos with the comment: "The Chicago Ottawa and Peoria (Illinois Terminal) interurban depot in Minooka, Illinois.  It’s for sale. What a great place with the CSX Iowa Interstate tracks in the backyard. Jan 2024."

Roger Kujawa shared

Dale Roberts: The YouPee used to put the St. Louis to Joliet crews up at the away-from-home terminal at the Hilton in Minooka. I only wish I had known this depot was there, as I would have went to go pay it a visit!

Bill Grenchik: The one in Morris was a hot dog place but same building.

Dennis DeBruler: Bill Grenchik It is now a BBQ place: https://maps.app.goo.gl/QCqhxvwg5m6tJR3b7

Andy Puch: It’s been for sale for years. I’d be curious to see the inside. The grain elevator next door is also for sale now.

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It looks like the old grain elevator is an integral part of the operation. And the growth skipped the slip-form silos and went to jump-form silos.

Street View, May 2023

It looks like the bins are bolted-steel bins, which is a rather old technology.

Street View, May 2023

The grain elevator has absorbed the land of the Rock Island depot and some other buildings.

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP