Ken Walchak, RPWRHS President

We are pleased to debut a new series on the website, We’re Your Neighbors! We’ll ask a different board member, staff, or volunteer questions about their life in the community and share their answers via the website and social media. We hope that this outreach effort will put a more personal face on the Historical Society and encourage our neighbors to say hello […]

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Thank you to Dr. Jim Akerman, Peterson Woods resident and Curator of Maps and Director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library, for presenting “Mapping the Early Roads of Chicago’s North Side” on February 17 at Budlong Woods Library. A few photographs from the event, courtesy of […]

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