Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Milan Mitrovic (Class of ’68), who also contributed the photo. “One of the oddities I noticed as a “Freshie” at Roosevelt High School in 1964 was the Janitor’s Room. Two of the letters on the doors had been defaced so that it read “Janitops Poom.” “At least one […]
This is the fourth in a series of blogposts featuring photographs taken by Marc Klowden, class of ’66, at Roosevelt during his tenure as Roosevelt Review photographer. Click on the images to enlarge. If you can identify anyone, please let us know in a comment. See Part 1, Part 2 and Part […]
This is the third in a series of blogposts featuring photographs taken by Marc Klowden, class of ’66, at Roosevelt during his tenure as Roosevelt Review photographer. Click on the images to enlarge. If you can identify anyone, please let us know in a comment.
Starting today I will be publishing a series of blogposts featuring Marc Klowden’s photographs taken at Roosevelt High School and at school sports events during the 1960s. Marc was a Roosevelt Review photographer and 1966 alum. Previously he shared with us photographs of Albany Park circa 1968. The first two photographs are from a football […]
All Hibbard alumni are welcome to come back to their roots and remember golden times. A short program will feature alumni remembrances and a musical performance by a group of Hibbard students. The building will be open for tours and connecting with old friends. Stories, laughter and cherished memories guaranteed. If you wish to make […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
As regular readers of this blog know, I grew up in Chicago on North Central Park Avenue across from the grounds of the Municipal TB Sanitarium. Entirely hidden by a border of towering trees and overgrown shrubs, the TB Sanitarium was such a mysterious place I barely noticed the other large, fenced-in parcel of land in the neighborhood. The signs on […]
