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Goose Island. / 41.90444°N 87.65417°W / 41.90444; -87.65417. Goose Island is a 160 acre artificial island in Chicago, Illinois, formed by the North Branch of the Chicago River on the west and the North Branch Canal on the east. It is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) across at its widest point.
Goose Island Beer Company is a brewery in Chicago. The oldest currently-operating brewing company in Illinois, it began as a brewpub that opened in 1988 in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, and was named after a nearby island. A larger production brewery opened in 1995.
The large facility on the north end of Goose Island (visible from North Avenue, but by car only reachable from the south: Division Street to North Branch to 1132 W. Blackhawk) is the Wrigley Global Innovation Center, a 193,000-square-foot (17,900 m 2) facility, which opened in September 2005 and was designed by Gyo Obata of Hellmuth, Obata and ...
Pulaski Park is a neighborhood directly west of Goose Island and east of Wicker Park. The generally accepted boundaries of Pulaski Park are Ashland (1600 W) to the west, the Chicago River and Elston Avenue to the east, the Bloomingdale Line on the north, and Chicago (800 N) on the south (although some people extend the southern border only to ...
Cherry Avenue bridge is located at 41°54′37.1″N 87°39′19.9″W; it runs in a north-south orientation, spanning the North Branch Canal of the Chicago River to provide railroad access to Goose Island, an industrial area in the Near North Side community area of Chicago.
The Goose Island lead went south and crossed North Avenue, then over an arm of the Chicago River on the Cherry Street bridge to service Big Bay Lumber on Cherry just past Division on Goose Island. At its peak CTM in Chicago serviced just four industries it inherited: Finkl Steel, Peerless Confectionery, Big Bay Lumber, and General Iron Industries.
Founded in Chicago in 1988 as a brewpub on Clybourn Avenue, Goose Island opened a production brewery on Fulton Street in 1995, and a second brewpub, in the Wrigleyville neighborhood, in 1999. The production brewery and its beers, but not the brewpubs, were purchased by Anheuser-Busch InBev in 2011.
May 18, 2015. The Peck and Hills Furniture Company Warehouse is a historic warehouse located at 909 West Bliss Street on Goose Island in Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1901, the warehouse was the main storage and distribution facility for the Peck and Hills Furniture Company.
Aerial view of the North Branch of the Chicago River, from the south, with Goose Island, near center. Early settlers named the North Branch of the Chicago River the Guarie River, or Gary's River, after a trader who may have settled the west bank of the river a short distance north of Wolf Point, at what is now Fulton Street.
In 2005, Kendall College moved from Evanston to Goose Island, Chicago, in the former Sara Lee Research and Development building. In 2008, Kendall College was acquired by Laureate Education. In 2018, Kendall College and its programs were transferred to National Louis University. Accreditation