Box 16
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Resolutions - Alderman Jack I. Sperling, 50th ward, to save remaining 37 acres at former Edgewater Country Club as open recreational area, by use of "Home Rule" powers of the City of Chicago, 1960s-1970s
File — Box: 16, Folder: 858
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:
1960s-1970s