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Chicago's Far North Side: An Illustrated History of Rogers Park and West Ridge The first Society–authored book, which earned the "Award of Superior Achievement" from the Illinois State Historical Society and the Association of Illinois Museums and Historical Societies in April of 2001. |
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Neighborhoods within Neighborhoods: Twentieth Century Life on Chicago’s Far North Side, by Neal Samors and Michael Williams, with Mary Jo Doyle (240 pages, paper back, ©2002). Our second Society–authored book, including excerpts from oral histories conducted with more than 125 current and former neighborhood residents, including Shecky Greene, Hugh Downs, Harold Ramis, Ira Berkow, Joel Weisman, Jan Schakowsky, Sr. Ann Ida Gannon, Neil Hartigan, Art Berman, and Scott Turow. |
 IMAGES OF AMERICA: Rogers Park, by Jacque Day Archer and Jamie Wirshinski Santoro (128 pages, paperback, ©2007). |
 IMAGES OF AMERICA: West Ridge, by Jacque Day Archer and Jamie Wirshinski Santoro (128 pages, paper back, ©2008). |
| Jacque Day Archer is a past-president of the Society. She and fellow member Jamie Santoro researched and published two books, one about Rogers Park and the second about West Ridge for the Images of America series of books, published by Arcadia Publishing. | |
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Sam’s Boys: The History of Chicago’s Leone Beach and Legendary Lifeguard Sam Leone, by Chris Serb (©2000, ISBN 0-615-11408-3). Many people were affected by their exposure to Sam Leone. He was personally responsible for having saved over 500 people from the ravages of Lake Michigan. Sam found a dilapidated boat in the Chicago River and brought it to Touhy Beach where boys working in the workshop fiber-glassed the rotting hull to make the hulk into Sam’s boat, Alert, which was put into lifeguard service. Read the story of Same Leone as told by Chris Serb, one of the many people whose life Sam touched. |
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The Trains That Ran Through Rogers Park. Couldn’t go on the trip to the Illinois Railway Museum with us? Do the next best thing, buy the book. Learn about the horsecars, streetcars, steam passenger trains, diesel commuter trains and the interurban trains that ran through Rogers Park. 48 pages, 8-1/2” x 11”, black and white illustrations. |
