Ridge Boulevard
Chicago is famous as a city built on a grid of streets, each laid out one-eighth of a mile apart from the other, many of them stretching for miles through […]
History Articles
Between Ancient Shorelines
The area of Rogers Park known locally by the name of its block club, “Lunt Avenue Neighbors” lies in a low pocket of land between the prehistoric lakeshores marked by […]
The Question of East and West Rogers Park
by Hank Morris People are frequently confusing Rogers Park as East Rogers Park and West Ridge as West Rogers Park. There is some basis in fact for these names. But, […]
An Early History of Real Estate in Rogers Park: or How it All Began
by Mary Jo Doyle Named after Philip McGregor Rogers, Rogers Ridge, as it was called for a time, was originally 600 acres of land located along the Chicago & Milwaukee […]
The Cabbageheads
by Hank Morris Confusion existed (and apparently still exists) about the location of the western boundary of Rogers Park. The original plat marked the boundary line at Ridge Avenue. And, […]
Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly
by Colleen Taylor Sen Edward Joseph Kelly (1876-1950), the 46th Mayor of Chicago, was born in Chicago and in the 1920s served as Chief Engineer of the Sanitary District of […]