Recognize this building? If you’ve been to the North Park Village Nature Center, this building faces the parking lot. It’s been modified for its current use as a residential building, but like many of the buildings on the site, it is still recognizable from this photograph in a 1915 book.
Event: A guided tour of the grounds of the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium
by Frances Archer on 24. Apr, 2012 in Chicago, Public institutions
Rag Man
by Frances Archer on 29. Feb, 2012 in Chicago, People
Guest blogger Kenneth Haag shares a charming childhood memory of the rag man who rode through the alleys of Kenneth’s North Side Chicago neighborhood.
My blog had a baby
by Frances Archer on 19. Jan, 2012 in Chicago, Public institutions
I’m thrilled to announce the much delayed arrival of my new blog, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium Remembered. The poor child is not quite standing on its own feet yet, but eventually I hope to report on the history, the built environment and the people who passed through this important public health facility. The posts I [...]
Goodbye to a friend
by Frances Archer on 12. Jan, 2012 in Chicago, People
I met Marshall Rosenthal about two years ago. While I immediately learned he was a great source for information on Chicago past and present, I didn’t get a chance to know him well enough. I never knew the details of his storied career in Chicago journalism until I read his obituary earlier this week.
Everyone knew his name
by Frances Archer on 26. Sep, 2011 in People
From Montrose to Peterson, Kedzie to Pulaski and far beyond, generations of Chicago kids knew Ned Singer’s Sports.
2010 in Review
by Frances Archer on 15. Jan, 2011 in Chicago
I’m running a little behind on my year-end review, but what’s a few weeks when most my posts cover a Chicago neighborhood during the fifties and sixties? At least I’ve got some new photos to go with the most popular subjects of the past year.
Remembering the Little Giant of the Loop
by Frances Archer on 19. Oct, 2010 in Chicago
While Lincoln Village Theater may have been Oscar Brotman’s greatest gift to Hollywood Park, it was far from his greatest gift to Chicago. Lincoln Village Theater was just one in a multifaceted chain of Brotman-Sherman movie theaters. They had art houses (Carnegie, Cinema); drive-ins (Oasis); historic icons (Portage, Tivoli, Aragon); modern conveniences (Hillside), and, in a category of its own, the Loop Theater at 165 North State Street.
South Pond’s Swan Song
by Frances Archer on 08. Aug, 2010 in Chicago, Public institutions
Back in early July my daughter and I visited Lincoln Park Zoo. When I saw South Pond I thought an environmental disaster had occurred. Gone were the curvilinear paths surrounding the pond. Gone was the island’s wild overgrowth. Gone were the giant swan paddleboats.
Cubs Heaven
by Frances Archer on 17. May, 2010 in Public institutions
The ivy is from Wrigley Field. So are the box seats. Ditto the dugout bench. Ditto the sod. Ditto the pavers. It doesn’t get more real, unless you’re actually at Wrigley Field. But I wasn’t. I was on a walking tour of the Bohemian National Cemetery. When you’re walking past rows of monuments in sombre grays and [...]
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Hot Dogs and Baseball: An Albany Park Boyhood
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A look back at Lincoln Village Shopping Center
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Mom and Pop–Part Two
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Member number one of the Albany Park Deborah Boys Club
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