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Commentor Name:	Rob Lambert
Comments left:	While there are several pages on bicycles on the site, nothing on roller skates, so I'll use this. While roller skating's heyday was the 1940s and 1950s, the fad made a comeback in the mid 1970s. One particular roller skate company, Chicago, is my main focus here. The Ware brothers started things up in 1905. From then until 1968, Chicago Roller Skate operated a plant at 4432 W. Lake (W. of Kostner Av., and the building still stands, vacant). The rioting on nearby Madison St. may have prompted the business to move further out (a newer business park off Mannheim Rd.). In 1993, National Sporting Goods bought Chicago Skate, closing the Bensenville plant and moved the business to New Jersey. Chicago Skate advertised often in Archie comic books from 1957 to 1964. Prices ranged from $7 (child skates) to $30 for top-of-the line adult skates in 1960. Today, that range is $22 to $175.
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