page_title: Riverview Park (Chicago)
section_title: George Schmidt
hierarchical_section_title: Riverview Park (Chicago) / George Schmidt
caption_attribution_description: English: From the University of Maryland Digital Collections website: "Riverview Park, Hell Gate scene, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1907-1914. Postcard number: 387."
context_page_description: Riverview Park was an amusement park in Chicago, Illinois which operated from 1904 to 1967. It was located on 74 acres in an area bound on the south by Belmont Ave. on the east by Western Ave, on the north by Lane Tech High School, and on the west by the North Branch of the Chicago River. It was in the North Center community area and neighborhood on Chicago's north side.
context_section_description: The Riverview Park grounds were owned by George Schmidt, which initially served as a private skeet shooting range. Immediately across the street, on the east side of Western Avenue, was George Schmidt Motors. There, George Schmidt senior sold new Sunbeams and Hillmans and other British cars from the Rootes Group (Humbers, Commers, etc.) and George Schmidt junior raced his sportcar named the Li'l Stinker, a white Sunbeam Alpine convertible with a cute skunk in a yellow circle painted on the doors and bonnet.
  "Big Bill" Haywood, the Industrial Workers of the World leader, once spoke here to a crowd of almost 80,000 people.
caption: Riverview Park, Hell Gate scene, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1907-1914
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