Old bottles in Chicago...??

[twistidd]

Hey all, I'm new to this website but not new to treasure hunting. My interest in bottle hunting has picked up again but I'm having a hard time finding places to find old bottles. I'm not into digging (yet), mostly eyeballing old bottles in woods, etc. If any of you from the Chicago area know of any places where there might be some older bottles lying around, or if you'd like a partner to hunt with, let me know. I've been searching around the preserves by me and they are clean. Thank you in advance.

Joe

 

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[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

twistidd,

not sure what area you are hunting.
(Chicago, north, west, south)

Not sure your going to get much just eyeballing
out in the woods. Few here and there.

Forest Preserves do offer more, but you really
need to do the digging. Stuff on top has been
picked over for many years.

Try checking out the sides of any old roads you
may come across; make sure you give extra time
for the old roads with a drop off on the sides. Prior
to being forest preserves many would use the old roads
to dump their trash out of the truck.

Nothing better to do, try checking out some stream beds,
just follow them; keep a good eye out on the side of the
streams, or when the streams have high banks. Following
the streams often is better than just looking for traces of
old roads, they help give away the location of those roads.
Even if you don't come across any bottles, it always makes
for a interesting hunt day

Check out the modern roads that run near the woods. Work
about 20 -30 yards in from the road, just follow the road.
Gets thick at times, but that is where you may run across
something. Look for shards, use your detector for metal,
again check out gullies.

Hope you come across some ; they are out there
Just takes a lot of hunting.

Don't forget the regulations out in those urban woods
Major digging is a no, no.
Not much more I can say.

If I did do any digging, when I was done, you would not
know I was there.

Also, welcome here at Treasure Net.

have a good un.......
SHERMANVILLE

 

[twistidd]

Thanks, Shermanville. When I was younger, I lived on a dead-end street with railroad tracks at one end (w/out a viaduct). The tracks were elevated on a hill, and the entire hill was fenced off. Between the tracks and the fence, all along the hill, were thick brush (trees, weeds, etc). As kids we would scale the fence at a certain spot where it wasn't so high and go exploring. I found a whole bunch of old Coca Cola and milk bottles (1910-current, but mostly old) lying all over the ground. Even a few straight-sided Coke bottles. Now, the trees are all gone because they decided to "clean up" the area (they were worried about hobos and drug dealing and whatnot). This all on the North side of Chicago. Any bottles that were left there are gone now. I still have all the ones I found but I'd like to find more. I have to tell myself that it's not as easy as it used to be. Either way, I'll take your advice, and keep trying. Thanks again.

T