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Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.
Edgewater Branch, Chicago Public Library
Betty A. Barclay Community Room
6000 N. Broadway, Chicago 60660

How Edgewater Reversed Urban Decline

During the late 1970s, Edgewater’s Winthrop-Kenmore corridor had become a hotbed of crime, arson and overall urban decay. The effort to crack down on bad landlords and make the area a safe, affordable and welcoming environment was led by a recent graduate student in planning named Jack Markowski, who later became Chicago’s housing commissioner and the head of Chicago’s most active affordable housing lender.

Join EHS and Jack on Saturday, Oct. 22 at 10 a.m. at the Edgewater Library, 6000 N. Broadway, for a look back at one of Chicago’s most successful community rehabilitation efforts. The program is free and open to the public. Click here for a flyer.

This is an in-person event. We encourage those who are not vaccinated, may be immunocompromised, or may have family members who are immunocompromised, to wear a mask.

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the opening of the EHS Museum.

Sunday, October 2, 2022, from 3 to 7 p.m.

Inside and outside the Museum - 5358 N. Ashland Ave.

Click here for more information. Click here for a page of photos from the 2002 Grand Opening.

To RSVP with a credit card, follow this link (bit.ly/ehsevent2)

Saturday, August 6, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.
Edgewater Branch, Chicago Public Library
Betty A. Barclay Community Room
6000 N. Broadway, Chicago 60660

If the walls of Edgewater Hospital could talk, they’d proudly share the years of being Chicago’s leading medical facility, before breaking into tears at what went on during the hospital’s final decade. Podcasters Todd Ganz and Stephani Young share nearly a century’s worth of history about the hospital that proudly treated thousands of Chicagoans, as well as Hollywood’s elite. This program is in partnership with the Chicago Public Library. Click here for a flyer.

This is an in-person event. We encourage those who are not vaccinated, may be immunocompromised, or may have family members who are immunocompromised, to wear a mask.

Join your neighbors again this year, on warm summer nights, for our popular community program of free live performances. From July 13 to August 24, 2022, every Wednesday evening from 6 to 8 p.m., different local musicians will entertain you in the beautiful EHS garden. We are pet friendly! All are welcome. Click here for the 2022 schedule.