This undated aerial offers a wealth of fascinating detail. “A” indicates West Washington Street; “B” the old west side Union Depot (closed in 1990; burned out in 1997); “C” the Chicago & Alton Railroad line (later Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, and today Union Pacific / Amtrak); “D” the old Paul F. Beich Co. candy plant (gutted in a fire in 2005); and “E,” the Beich factory ball field, used by employees for recreation and the city industrial baseball league. Who enjoyed Beich candy as a child? Who remembers this baseball field?
