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Posted inForest Park History

Playing slots at the Marengo Tavern

by Jill Wagner November 3, 2021November 3, 2021

The Marengo Tavern (also known as Marengo Tap), which was at the corner of Marengo and Madison streets, shown here in 1954. It made headlines in the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune in 1950 when the state attorney’s office and sheriff ’s police raided seven establishments in Forest Park, seizing slot machines. Also in the […]

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