Join Preservation Chicago to celebrate the publication of “Logan Square: Images of America” co-written by Ward Miller of Preservation Chicago, Jacob Kaplan of Forgotten Chicago and Preservation Chicago, Andrew Schneider of Logan Square Preservation, and Dan Pogorzelski of Forgotten Chicago and the Northwest Chicago Historical Society, and with introduction by Prof. Edward Kantowicz.
• Tuesday, June 19, 2018
• 6:30 to 9:00 pm
• The Logan Square Auditorium
• FREE event and open to all. RSVP requested.
• Cash Bar
• Live music from “The Broad Shoulders Brass Band” and “Los Cool Shades”
Link to FREE Registration and more information…
Preservation Chicago helped to sponsor the book and support with historic photographs provided from The Art Institute of Chicago-Ryerson & Burnham Libraries and the Chicago History Museum.
“The community now called Logan Square began as a patchwork of farms, hay fields, subdivisions, and small towns in rural Jefferson Township. Subsumed into the rapidly expanding city of Chicago at the end of the 19th century, the elegant residences lining the boulevards would gain prominence as an ethnic gold coast.
Over time, a shifting kaleidoscope of peoples would call Logan Square home, including Yankee farmers, Scandinavian proprietors, German tradesmen, African American freedmen, Polish shopkeepers, Jewish merchants, Filipino laborers, and Cuban refugees — diversity further enriched with the many nations of the former Soviet Bloc, as well as Latin America and the Caribbean, that would later settle here. Like many other Chicago neighborhoods, change is the one constant, as the arts have brought a renaissance to this working-class corner of the city.
The photographs that appear in this book were compiled by the authors from a variety of private and institutional collections.”