Only a handful of the properties are still in private hands, as a few brave holdouts resist UIC to the end. There are still guys walking up and down the street selling gold chains, cologne, hair trimmers and socks. It is still a friendly place. Jim's Original Hot Dog Stand is still there, on the northwest corner of Maxwell and Halsted. It is still open 24 hours a day and is always busy.
Specialties are the polish sausage sandwich and the bone-in pork chop sandwich.
The building has been sold and the business is scheduled to close some time in October. Jim's anchors a connected group of wood frame buildings that run from the corner almost to Newberry Street. Jim's was originally a frame structure with rear frame barn, constructed in about 1870, a year before the Great Chicago Fire. It has had several alterations, including a 1926 one story brick addition. The building became a Jewish delicatessen, Leavitt's Restaurant, in the 1920s.