![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So they didn’t have any bathing facilities,” says Maureen Flanigan, a historian emeritus at the Illinois Institute of Technology, adding that the experience was no luxury. “In a lot of the poor neighborhoods, they didn’t have indoor plumbing. The city built the bathhouse in 1910 so that neighborhood residents could get clean. The particular building that prompted Anna’s question is the “Simon Baruch” public bathhouse, named after the noted public health advocate and leader of the public bath movement in the United States. Spoiler alert: These are now extinct in Chicago, except for facades here and there. Let’s start with the kind of bathhouse Anna noticed in Pilsen. Public bathhouses: Sanitation and civility ![]()
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