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Box 14

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Feature Stories - Crusade and House Bill 2058 (appropriated some $950,000 to purchase some of the Edgewater Golf Club land for a state park) victory, Oct. 5, 1969

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 789
Scope and Contents note From the Series: Research materials related to Lily Venson’s journalism on the crusade to preserve the private Edgewater Golf Club land for the public in the creation of Laurence C. Warren Park in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood. She wrote approximately 100 feature stories on the crusade for Lerner Newspapers, for which she received a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize and was awarded a plaque from Illinois Governor Richard Ogilvie.Edgewater Golf Club’s land had been sought after for...
Dates: Oct. 5, 1969