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 […]
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 […]
Enjoy these highlights from a Jewish History Walking Tour of Albany Park.
Guest post by Alan Myer I grew up in a one-bedroom apartment at 5550 N. Spaulding, third floor, with my four-years-younger sister Barbara (Bunnie), from 1942 until 1956. I attended Peterson School from kindergarten under graduation in 1953, then Von Steuben High School in 1957. Chuckie Bosworth lived on the second floor, and Cary Katznelson […]
Ravenswood Terminal at Kimball and Lawrence Roosevelt class of 1966 alum and former Roosevelt Review photographer Marc Klowden shared four of the many, many photos he has taken in Albany Park. The photos in this post all date from 1968. Can someone explain the huts pictured outside the Ravenswood (i.e., the Brown Line) station house? I remember […]
We know very well how much fun it is to tell and hear stories about the old neighborhood. That’s why we’ll be attending Albany Park Night on Wednesday, May 16, from 5 pm – 8 pm at Max and Benny’s in Northbrook. Enjoy those wonderful tastes of Jewish Albany Park while listening to stories that recall the […]
For decades, the building that housed the former Deborah Boys Club on Kimball and Ainslie was home to the Albany Park Community Center (APCC), an organization that carried on Deborah’s mission to support the community through social services. Recently, APCC consolidated all its programming into another landmark Albany Park building, the former location of Arie Crown Hebrew Day School, […]
Thanks to contributor Chris for pointing me in the direction of these classic Lincoln Village images. They can be found on the Andrew Dunham’s blog , which is a treasure trove of mostly Skokie photographs dated 1970-75, photographer unknown. Bain Hardware on the left-hand side was an early tenant; they are listed in a June 21, […]
