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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.

In the mid-1800s, the current Senn Park location was the site of “7-Mile House” (seven miles to downtown Chicago), a homestead and inn at which travelers might stop on their way to or from Chicago. Abraham Lincoln may have stopped there in 1860 during his first campaign for President and, for the past 25 years, Senn Park has been home to Charles Keck’s “The Young Lincoln” statue.

The Edgewater Historical Society is pleased to invite you to join Ald. Harry Osterman, retired Ald. Mary Ann Smith, DePaul University historian Mark Pohlad, and other elected officials and guests, to commemorate Lincoln in Edgewater on Friday, April 29, at 1 p.m. in Senn Park, 5887 N. Ridge Ave., Chicago. Light refreshments will be served.