http://chicagoist.com/2006/06/08/focus_on_goose_island.php All comments for Focus on Goose Island en-us 2009 Marcus Gilmer Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:30:00 -0600 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss marcusisabadass@gmail.com marcusisabadass@gmail.com 60 http://chicagoist.com/2006/06/08/focus_on_goose_island.php#comment-266069 http://chicagoist.com/2006/06/08/focus_on_goose_island.php#comment-266069 Comments Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:56:02 -0600 <p>Mitch, the story of Goose Island is so much better than that! I'm not sure about Charles Taylor, but the history from the Encyclopedia of Chicago (http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/529.html) and the history I've read in other places is that William Ogden (of Odgen Road fame) bought the land in between a meadering section of the North Branch. In a brilliant stroke, he decided to cut a canal to make MORE valuable riverfront land. And then, to be even more brilliant, he discovered the canal detrius was clay good for bricks. So Ogden created a little brick factory next to the canal, and sold many of the bricks used in Chicago buildings.</p>