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Number 37 – January 2023

Big Oaks Golf Club • The Buffalo • 5408 N. Central Avenue

NWCHS-Jan2023

Number 38 – July 2023

Joel Ellis • Sand Ridge and Whiskey Point

NWCHS-July2023

Number 39 – January 2024

Gambling in Chicago • The Korske Klub

NWCHS-Jan2024

Number 34 – July 2021

OLV – The Mother Church of the Far Northwest Side • When the Squares Ruled the Diamond • Northwest Side Pioneer

NWCHS-July2021

Number 35 – January 2022

World War II Evergreen Tree • Pioneer Emiline Sherman • Riding Stables

NWCHS-Jan2022

Number 36 – July 2022

Trading Stamps • The Bormans • Ella LaBagh

NWCHS-July2022

Number 31 – January 2020

The Molay Family • Elijah Wentworth Sr. • The Jefferson Park Chamber of Commerce

NWCHSJan-2020

Number 32 – July 2020

A History of Segregation on the Northwest Side
The Ghost Train • Polish Catholic Parishes in Chicago

NWCHS-July 2020

Number 33 – July 2021

From Roscoe Village to Belmont Heights • Kolze’s Electric Park and other Groves

NWCHS-Jan 2021

Number 28 – July 2018

4700 Block of N. Karlov • Stain Glass Artist Hans Muench • Letters from Russ Gremel

NWCHS-JUL 2018

Number 29 – January 2019

Growing up in Bucktown

NWCHS-Jan2019

Number 30 – July 2019

A Chicago Bungalow • Joseph Schepis • Growing up in Jefferson Park • John Burmeister • Chicago Fire Department Engine 69 • Mayfair Station

NWCHS-July2019

 

Number 25 – January 2017

A Gorgeous Garden of Dreams: The Gateway Theater • Logan Square

NWCHS-Jan 2017

Number 26 – July 2017

Memories of My Family’s Corner Grocery Store • Rev. Johannes Block & His Jefferson Park Churches

NWCHS-July 2017

Number 27 – January 2018

The Jefferson Park Firehouse • The Irving Park Portage • Chicago First Police Dog • The Kildare Telephone Exchange Building

NWCHS-Jan 2018

Number 22 – July 2015

The Wachowski-Ray House • Forest Glen Floral Company

NWCHS-July 2015

Number 23 – January 2016

A History of Cinema in Avondale • Polk Brothers: The Early Years • The Opening of the Portage Park Fieldhouse

NWCHS-Jan 2016

Number 24 – July 2016

Mothers of World War II • Orchard Place • Pioneer Cemetery Tombstones Rediscovered • Lost Movie Theaters of Albany Park

NWCHS-July 2016

Number 19 – January 2014

LaBagh Woods Homes • M. J. Suerth Funeral Home • Memories of Old Wicker Park

NWCHS-Jan 2014

Number 20 – July 2014

The Great Memorial Day Race of 1897 • The Palm Sunday Tornado of 1920

NWCHS-July 2014

Number 21 – January 2015

The Altrui Club • Lost Chicago Corners

NWCHS-Jan 2015

Number 16 – July 2012

The Early Masons of Chicago’s Northwest Side • Hubert W. Butler • William P. Gray • Lyman A. Budlong • Andrew Dunning • Fred Esdohr • Henry Esdohr • David B. Fonda • John H. Dymond

NWCHS-July 2012

Number 17 – January 2013

Luther North High School • The Northwest Triangle Football Team • The Early Masons of Chicago’s Northwest Side Revisited • John Groenier • Henry Wulff

NWCHS-Jan 2013

Number 18 – July 2013

Sears: 75 Years at 6 Corners  •  Antonio Pasin and His Little Red Wagon

NWCHS-July 2013

Number 13 – January 2011

Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium • James B. Farnsworth • Mayfair Pumping Station

NWCHS-Jan 2011

Number 14 – July 2011

Jefferson Township’s Oldest Church • The Polish Museum of America • Dr. Lewis A. Convis • David L. Roberts • Six Corners Historical Kiosks

NWCHS-July 2011

Number 15 – January 2012

Whiskey Breakfast; A Book Review • History of Kosciuszko Park • A Photo History of a Jefferson Park House

NWCHS-Jan 2012

Number 10 – July 2009

Simon H. Cripe • Avondale and Chicago’s Polish Village

NWCHS-July 2009

Number 11 – January 2010

I remember Portage Park • St. Cornelius Parish • Kiddytown

NWCHS-Jan 2010

Number 12 – July 2010

St. Pat’s High School • The Jefferson Ice Company

NWCHS-July 2010

Number 7 – January 2008

William Cross Hazelton • Olson Waterfall • Hoyne Savings

JPHS-Jan 2008

Number 8 – July 2008

Jefferson Park – Gateway to Chicago & Transportation Hub

JPHS-July 2008

Number 9 – January 2009

Jefferson Park’s Volga Germans • Milwaukee Avenue

JPHS-Jan 2009

Number 4 – July 2006

The Henry Esdohr House – Revisited • St. John’s Lutheran Church • Oh, the Good Ole Days

JPHS-July 2006

Number 5 – January 2007

Edward Fox • The Central Avenue Jog • The Grahams of Goodman Street

JPHS-Jan 2007

Number 6 – July 2007

John V. May Funeral Home • The Lovely Homes on Leland • Henry Wulff

JPHS-July 2007

Number 1 – January 2005

Henry Esdohr • Houses in the Park • Herman Esdohr • The Gateway Theater

JPHS-Jan 2005

Number 2 – July 2005

Leo Schueneman • Beaubien – 100 Years • Charles Zickermann

JPHS-July 2005

Number 3 – January 2006

Two Jaacks on the Milwaukee Road • Our Lady of Victory

JPHS-Jan 2006