Author Archive | Frances Archer

Catching the Big One

When I heard a woman who lives in my neighborhood had written a chick lit tale that takes place in Chicago, I had to read her book. It’s not often guilty pleasures take place so close to home.

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Basketball At Home and Away

I was, as usual, interested in the local angle. What does a book about the great college basketball coach who challenged discriminatory practices have to do with Chicago, and in particular, my old neighborhood, Hollywood Park? More than you’d expect.

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Garden Party

The Peterson Garden Project is among the gardens that will be featured in Victory, a documentary in the making about community gardening in Chicago, highlighting the history of Victory Gardening in the 1940s and detailing the ways in which gardening now impacts Chicago neighborhoods, health, families and the city’s future. The filmmakers, Dan Lerner from Cross Town Productions and […]

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That Old Swedish-Jewish Neighborhood

If you have ever passed through the North Park community on Chicago’s Far North Side, you certainly will recognize the brick two-flats flanking the Victorian. Maybe not those two-flats, but you have seen countless, identical buildings lining the neighborhood’s streets like books on a library shelf. The Victorian, on the other hand, now that’s a rare […]

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