Save the date and spread the word! On May 31, 2025, Peterson School is welcoming us back. To receive updates by email, please sign up for the mailing list here. Sign up even if you can’t attend in person to learn about the launch of the website and how to share photos of your Peterson […]
by Miguel Alfaro and Nayeli Vargas As part of our Von Historians Club project to research WWII veterans who attended Von Steuben, we were fortunate to meet with a local stage actor who attended our school, Myron “Mike” Nussbaum. We went to his condo with our teacher, Ms. Meghan Thomas, on a Saturday to discuss […]
On March 25, Forgotten Chicago presented a program on Lincolnwood history to a packed house at the Lincolnwood Public Library. Presenter Patrick Steffes touched on the founding of the suburb and its name change from Tessville, but focused his talk on period starting in 1920, when development began to heat up, slowly at first. Patrick […]
An imaginative, innovative picture book that will awaken a love of Chicago in kids of all ages, Chicago Treasure, by Larry Broutman, Rich Green and John Rabias, defies categorization. Like a cabinet of curiosities, its pages delight the reader with their many wonders. Chicago Treasure also is a kind of community project, organized around the […]
North River Commission and the Albany Park Chamber of Commerce are partnering with Albany Park Dines (a project of Albany Park neighbors), Chicago for Chicagoans, Brick of Chicago, Nighthawk Chicago, and The Kedzie Inn for Tastes and Tours of Albany Park, a weekend filled with organized tours and activities highlighting the great community of Albany […]
Photo: Andy Romanoff Mark your calendars now and plan to join us for a blast from the past! What: 45th Reunion of the Von Steuben High School Class of ’74 When: Saturday, October 26, 2019 Where: The Warehouse Eatery, Deerfield, IL. GO PANTHERS! Please use the contact form to provide your email address or physical address if you […]
When Jerry Jacover was 11 years old, his parents did the unthinkable. Jerry fought it with everything he had, but it happened anyways. In 1956, the Jacover family moved from 5748 N. Christiana to Skokie. More than sixty years ago he moved and Jerry still remembers Hollywood Park vividly, right down to his old phone […]
1967 Top Hat jacket worn by Stewart Davidson. Photo courtesy of Jerry Alter. Guest blogpost by Charles “Chuck” Bordo I was a member of the Deborah Boys Club, and an active member of the Top Hats in 1961 and 1962. Where I lived in Budlong Woods was a relatively new neighborhood, and Mather High School […]
If you graduated from Von Steuben High School in 1969, this is your 50th reunion. Join your former classmates for a party on August 31 at the East Bank Club in Chicago. For information, send an email to: reunion1969 (at) yahoo (dot) com. Note that I’ve written the email address as text to avoid spam. […]
For those of you who grew up in Hollywood Park before 1970, no explanation necessary. For everyone else, the photo on the left is dated 1968, and the one on the right was taken in 2018. The Hollywood Bowl sold penny candy, and at lunchtime it was jammed with kids buying grape gumballs, licorice records, […]
