Last time sold out quickly. Register now to reserve your ticket for the walking tour that takes you back to a fascinating look at a sometimes glamorized, sometime buried era of Chicago history, with links to our own community. Tony Soprano wasn’t the first mobster drawn to quiet suburban-style living. In the Roaring 20’s, the […]
Tony Soprano wasn’t the first mobster drawn to quiet suburban-style living. In the Roaring 20’s, the new bungalows of West Ridge provided an idyllic refuge on the northern edge of the city for organized crime figures involved in the gambling, rum-running, vice and gangland struggles for power that defined the Prohibition era in Chicago. Join […]
Tom Nall revisits Rosehill Cemetery on our May 18, 2219 tour and discovers new stories of the people who built our community.
Our hands-on exhibit of products manufactured in 20th Century Chicago is on view any Wednesday or Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Stop in to see a fascinating array of familiar products and make some new discoveries about our city’s past, on loan from collector and curator Andrew Clayman.
Neighborhood Historian Glenna Eaves will once again lead her popular tour “The Spirits of Rogers Park and West Ridge at Rosehill Cemetery.” Join Glenna to honor the early leaders of Rogers Park and West Ridge by visiting the graves and monuments of men and women who helped build our neighborhood. Farmers, soldiers, business owners, artists […]
Volunteer Tom Nall’s appreciation of the Chicago Street Grid and its creator, Edward P. Brennan, as presented by Professor Bill Savage of Northwestern University.
Mike Zimmerman grew up in West Ridge in the late 1940s and the 1950s. Now retired, he recently sent us this memoir about his childhood adventures.
While most Chicagoans know about Daniel Burnham and “the City Beautiful” movement, few recall that in the same year the 1909 Plan of Chicago was published, Chicago also regularized its street address system, beginning a long (and still unfinished) effort to make street names and numbering consistent across town. Edward P. Brennan, an early Rogers […]
What could be more Chicago than elections and hot dogs? Join us for our annual meeting and election of board members, plus a talk by popular food historian Bruce Kraig on Hot Dog History and Why Chicago’s Are the Best. We’ll also have an update regarding stewardship of the extensive RPWRHS collection archive. Only current members are […]
Despite a bitterly cold and icy evening, about thirty-five people attended the Living History program, Growing up in Rogers Park and West Ridge, on February 5, 2019. 5 panelists, all current neighborhood residents, talked about what it was like growing up in the Rogers Park and West Ridge of the past.
