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Support the Rogers Park / West Ridge Historical Society by purchasing books and merchandise from the Society Store. Orders can be accepted online via PayPal or with a credit card. Current Members enjoy special pricing. Be sure to log into your account on this site to access Member Pricing.
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October 10, 2010 Gangsta’ Tour
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2010 Gangsta’ Tour Tickets
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Society Membership
Joining the Roger Park / West Ridge Historical Society has never been easier! You can sign up right now, online, using PayPal's secure site to pay, using your credit card or PayPal account.
Benefits of membership include:
- Subscription to our quarterly newsletter, The Historian
- Access to the special members pages on our website, with copies of past house walk brochures, specially–written, informative articles, and all past newsletters
- Discounts on our books and other publications
- Discounts on our Annual House Walk and other other special events
Most important, your membership dollar allows programs like the Oral History project to continue, underwrites Society publications and events, and covers our minimal operations expenses.
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Books for Sale
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Chicago's Far North Side: An Illustrated History of Rogers Park and West Ridge
by Neal Samors, Mary Jo Doyle, Martin Lewin and Michael Williams (162 pages, paper back, ©2000-2001).
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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Photos for Sale
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1. Granada Theater, c.1930 |
2. Schubert's Grocery Store, 1930 |
3. North on Western from Devon, 1934 |
4. Blacksmithy of Herman Staerk, 1934 |
5. Howard Street, 1962 |
6. Western & Devon looking south, 1934 |
7. Rogers Park Limits baseball team, 1906 |
8. Howard Street, looking west, 1955 |
9. Adelphi Theatre |
10. Clark Street streetcars 1911-1916 |
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