Chicago's Hyde Park Historical Society
5529 S. Lake Park Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
773-493-1893

Open Saturdays and Sundays from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m.
Newsletter Articles
A comprehensive list of all Hyde Park History articles in pdf form       
     
 Summer 08.pdf John Dunham's Madison Park  Vol. 30 No. 3 By Charlotte and John Schuerman
     
     
Autumn, 07.pdf International House of Chicago celebrates its 75th year in 2007  Vol 29 No. 4 by Claude Weil to the Hyde Park Historical Society.
Summer, 07, pdf  Vol 29 No. 3  Recent Events at the Society
Spring, 07.pdf Annual Meeting and 2007 Show and Tell Vol 29 No. 2  This is the Spring 2007 Annual Meeting issue
Winter, 07.pdf continuation of Article Chicago's Finest Transportation the Illinois Central Electric Railroad Vol 29 No. 1  by John Allen and Roy G. Benedict
Summer06.pdf File of Article Chicago's Finest Transportation The Illinois Central Electric Railroad Vol 28 No. 2  by John Allen and Roy G. Benedict
 Winter 2006 Newsletter Pdf. file of entire newsletter
Hyde Park and the Wreck of the Lady Elgin
Vol 28 No.1  by Frances S. Vandervoort
Fall,2005 Newsletter Pdf. file of entire newsletter Vol27 No. 3  
Spring 2005 Newsletter Pdf. file of entire newsletter
Annual Meeting Issue
Vol 27 No.1  
Summer 2005 Newsletter Pdf. file of entire newsletter
Memories of Greenwood Row
Vol.27 No.2  by Judy Allen
80 Years in Hyde Park: What's Past is Prologue, December, 1991 [.pdf]   Leon M. Despres
The Beginning of the South Shore Country Club: The Founder's Own Story, October, 1992 [.pdf]   Lawrence Heyworth
The Big Wheel, Spring, 2000   Patrick Meehan

Ferris Wheel Follow-up

  Stephen A. Treffman

The Big Wheel -- for Kids

  Kristi Hollingsworth
On Cable Cars and Lunch Rooms: Early Streetcars in Hyde Park, Winter, 1999-2000 [.pdf]   Stephen A. Treffman
Addendum:  On the Keller Brothers' Lunchroom    
at the HPHS Headquarters's location circa 1898    
  Mary Bell Keller Johnson &
Judy Keller Levantino
Chicago Day at the Worlds Columbian Exposition, October, 1994 [.pdf]   James Stronks
Chicago Day at the Worlds Columbian Exposition, October, 1994 [.pdf]   James Stronks
The Civilian D-Day: Selling War Bonds from the Air, Spring, 2004 [.pdf]   Stephen A. Treffman
Devil in the White City, a review. Spring 2003   Rosellen Brown
An Enduring Gift: Jean Block's Hyde Park Houses Twenty Years Later Winter, 1998/1999 [.pdf]    Stephen A. Treffman

Addendum:  Who Was Jean Block? [.pdf]   

   
Earl B. Dickerson and Hyde Park  December, 1986 [.pdf]   Robert J. Blakely
Three articles on the HPHS headquarters building:    

The Keller Brothers' Lunchroom

  Mary Bell Keller Johnson &
Judy Keller Levantino

Steve's Lunchroom: Part I
Spring/Summer, 1997[.pdf]

  Alta Blakely and Greg Thorson

Steve's Lunchroom: Part II
Summer/Fall, 1997[.pdf]

  Alta Blakely
Holding the Lake at Bay in Jackson Park:
            The Stories of the Paved Beach and the Iowa Building
  Stephen A. Treffman
Hyde Park at the Beginning of World War II: Campus Reminiscences Fall, 2001[.pdf]   Yaffa Claire Draznin
Hyde Park's Legacy of Architectural Terra Cotta Ornament, July, 1987 [.pdf]   Edward A. Campbell
The Hyde Park Presbyterian Church, Winter, 2001   Mrs. J. F. Gilchrist

Hyde Park Presbyterian Church
-- for Kids

  Kristi Hollingsworth
The IC's Commuter Newsletter and a Decade of Transition,
Summer 2003
[.pdf]
  John G. Allen
Mary Todd Lincoln's Sad Summer in Hyde Park, Spring, 1998   Jim Stronks
My School Days in Hyde Park, Winter, 2002   Paul H. Nitze
Recollections of Ted Anderson, Winter, 1995 [.pdf]   Devereux Bowly
Pioneer Days of the Hyde Park Historical Society, Spring, 1999   Clyde Watkins
The Politics of Robert Picken, Spring, 2003   Jay F. Mulberry
The Quadrangle Club: Notes from HPHS Archives, Winter, 1995 [.pdf]   Stephen A. Treffman &
Ed Campbell
Shipwrecks Off Hyde Park, October, 1992 [.pdf]   Jim Stronks
A Tale of Hyde Park Park Art, September, 1990 [.pdf]   Alta Blakely
William H. Ray: From the Historical Society Archives   Stephen A. Treffman
Promontory Point 1937-1987, Summer, 2001 [.pdf]   John McDermott, Jr., edited by Victoria Post Ranney

Addendum:  About Alfred Caldwell [.pdf]   

  Stephen A. Treffman
The Spirit of Hyde Park--The Mural May, 1990 [.pdf]   Astrid Fuller
When Tarzan Went to Harvard, Spring, 2001   Edgar Rice Burroughs
Wheels of Time: A Hyde Park Mural, September, 1983 [.pdf]   Zeus Preckwinkle
Wooded Island: In Memoriam, Fall and Winter, 2003   Doug Anderson

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