Show FAMOUS TAVERN IS RAZED old bulls head hostelry in chicago demolished to make room boom for store cil chicago leago the om old bulls head ern Is no lie more its demolition waft c completed recently A big B tore store will be erected on oil tho the site the ancient clent ture was built more thim than CO 60 years yeara ago ellid was the second hotel on oil tile the west side aide tho the first being the green tree tavern which was razed many years ngo ago with the passing of 0 tile the old dulla bulls lead head memories of early lays daya in chicago c ago are revived in ih tile the minds of many of tile the cites older residents when built in fit 1818 tile the hulls head tavern was one of the most moat pretentious structures in ili town its builder matthew I ablin was waa ono one of tile tho pioneers of chicago tho the hotel was built with tile locating of f tile the bulls head stockyards stock yards at tile the junction of west Al madison nillson street ogden avenue and ashland avenue Lur during big the first five years of its ox ex Is tolice the only means of transportation to that remote part of the city was by private conveyance or on oil toot in iii 1833 1853 frank parmalee instituted a bus line from lake and state streets to the bulls head tavern tile the round trip consuming almost halt half a day street cars mako make the round trip trill now in ili less lesa than half tin an hour with the removal of the stockyards stock yards to the south side aide the old hostelry began to wane waito in in popularity more alore than 25 years ago the tavern was removed to west harrison street opposite the county hospital and had been occupied occupy ed as a dwelling and confectionery store the washingtonian home now 0 occupies the ifie original site of the bulls head |