Rogers Park National Bank

Rogers Park National Bank was founded in 1912. For the five years prior to the construction of this building in 1917 Read more at Forgotten Chicago __________________________________________

Rogers Park hidden history

North Shore School - May Its Memory Live On Through Its Students

Rogers Park Tags: 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, caution tape, demolition eyesore, North Shore School, Rogers Park, Rogers Park history, School's Out, wasteful destruction

Rogers Park - Clark and Estes

Adelphi Theater
7070-78 N. Clark Street
Chicago, Illinois, 60626




Tags: 49th Ward, 60626, Adelphi Theater, Chicago, Clark Street, Estes Avenue, Rogers Park, Rogers Park history

Rogers Park Research at the Newberry Library

I visited the Newberry Library today to do some research on Rogers Park history.












My studies included the following:




P. Traces Boots & Shoes
4843 Clark Street (later 7048 N. Clark Street)

J.F. Ure Rogers Park Dairy
7527 N. Clark Street

Joseph Ebert
The Joseph Ebert Tavern
3563 Ridge (later 6666 N. Ridge Blvd.)

K.G. Schmidt Bottled Beer

The Karthauser Inn

Allgauer's Fireside

Grassfield's on Ridge

Peter Muno

4113 Ridge (later 7504 N. Ridge Blvd.)

St. Henry Church (built 1851)

Patrick Leonard Touhy

General Phil Sheridan

General Sherman

Carter H. Harrison

Bishop DeKoven

North Shore News

The Land Company

George Pratt

John V. Farwell

Luther L. Greenleaf

Stephen P. Lunt

George Estes

Charles H. Morse

The Oaks Mansion
5008 Clark (later 7339 N. Clark Street)

The Meat Market

Dr. W.D. Clark

The Rogers Park Village Board

Rogers Park Water Company

St. Henry's School at the Angel Guardian Orphanage

West Side Schoolhouse

East Side Schoolhouse

The Grand Avenue

Eugene Field Elementary School

Calvary Cemetery

Rogers Park School

The Rogers Park Tollgate and Gatekeeper's House

The Big Ditch

The Luxembourg Brotherhood

The Winandy Brothers

The Cumberland Post

The Grand Army of the Republic

Post 737

Julius Soerns

Birchwood Country Club (later North Shore School)

The Hillside

North Chicago Street Railroad

The Rogers Park Post Office

The Rogers Park Police

The 45th Precinct

P. Weimeschkirch Undertaking and Livery
4861 Clark (later 7066 N. Clark Street)

Germania

Arnold Avenue

Sheridan Place

Rogers Park - Images of America

This book was for sale at Walgreens earlier this year, until they sold out.

Now it's back in stock.

It's worth the $20 price.

Welcome to Rogers Park: structure of decay

The crackly, chipping, peeling, old paint look of this structure goes very well with the real deal of the Jarvis El Station above it.

Here are a few questions:

Why is a "Welcome to Rogers Park" sign at this location? The Jarvis Station is hardly the beginning or the end of Rogers Park. This is nowhere near one of Rogers Parks borders to welcome anybody. Of course, I can understand a welcome sign at a transportation hub but ...

If this is a welcome sign for the Jarvis Station, why is it on the opposite side of the street from the exit/entry points of CTA commuters? It was placed in a really out of the way location for a welcome sign. You can tell by the first picture (above), that it is just between the Public Storage property and the Jarvis Station.

The next question has to do with politics. Are you surprised?



This structure has three sides, one a crackly "Welcome to Rogers Park" facing West, one plain white side facing a fence to the East, and a third side that is questionable.

The reason the third side, facing East, is questionable is because it shows a white opaque sheet of plastic covering a very nice history of Rogers Park, map of Rogers Park, and signed letter from Mayor Daley.

Now, who would cover this up? What would be the motivation to cover this up?

Whoever covered this up doesn't like Mayor Daley.

Whoever covered this up doesn't like Rogers Park history.

Whoever covered this up doesn't want the citizens to be educated on the size and shape of Rogers Park.


Who could it be?

Ah, the good old days. Sherwin in 1982

Relevant links:

Jane Byrne on Wikipedia.org

Sherwin on the Lake