LakeView Historical Chronicles: Blogger/Sources/Blog Post List

With over 70 Topical Posts

Researcher and Blogger
Garry Albrecht
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The Reason for this Blog

On the corner of Stratford Place and (inner) Lake Shore Drive is Sholom Temple to the north of the block with their parking lot to the south. The Sholom Temple's parking lot is surrounded by six foot tall black ornate metal fence that could have graced historical Hawthorne Place District located one block south of Stratford Place. I was curious about the over-sized lot behind the stately fence. At that moment, I decided I needed to know more about this parking lot and began to research what that building must have looked like within the parking lot fence. This initial narrowly scoped research project of mine was to become a broader research project of my entire neighborhood of Lake View from its beginnings. Due to my membership to the Ravenswood-Lake View Historical Association (one of several Board members) I have sprinkled some photos from the Ravenswood area with it was part of the old township/city of Lake View. I hope you enjoy my adventure and that same adventure becomes yours.

505 Stratford Place

This blog has 80 topical posts adding more information and text all the time. I could have done a better job on formatting and geo-tagging. I am constantly trying to correct this deficit. Some posts are directly related to others and noted on each post. I began this quest in 2007 and will continue until I find a university library willing to adopt this work of mine. Also, the reader may have to click on an image or article for an enlargement in order to read it.

I have assembled a collection of my own postcards, press photos, books, and other collectibles that are in four posts that can be found on the right side-bar of each post. The viewer of the blog will need to click on the right side bar to discover all 70 posts. So, click on the year & then the month & then the post. I have tried to place these post in some sort of chronically order.

I am a Board of Director Member

Members of Board of the Directors
The Association has a board with directors and three officers elected annually by the membership.

The 2017 directors & officers are/were:

Patrick Butler, President

Dayle Murphy, Vice President

Leah Steele, Secretary/Treasurer
Dorena Wenger, Program Chairperson

Garry Albrecht, Associate Director

Peter von Buol, Associate Director

Marcella Kane, Associate Director

Carolyn Bull, Associate Director

Ron Roenigk, Associate Director

Jon Stromsta, Associate Director

One day I would like to branch out and establish
a non-profit association of my own.
I am not the best writer/typist

so, there may be grammatical or spelling errors, so forgive me and correct me. I may discover new insights in the future, so I regard this blog as a ''living document" to be reshaped by further research and readers' contributions that can be added to any post commentary section provided on the bottom of each post. Everyone is free to contact me on any questions that you may have on the subject of vintage Lake View as well as the resources used in this blog by emailing me at lvhistorical@gmail.com

I do have a Facebook page called LakeView Historical that is used to created album narratives from the information collected in my blog as well as information regarding our neighborhood in general.

Also, feel free to use Twitter using the hashtag LakeViewHistorical

This blog's domain name is protected by Google

and on the bottom of every post is the following in bold type:

Important Note:

These posts are exclusively used for educational purposes. I do not wish to gain monetary profit from this blog nor should anyone else without permission for the original source

me hiding out in Andersonville in 2011

According to my readings the integration of the City of Lake View into the City of Chicago took awhile. I guessing almost a decade. This was a period in time that the former city was referred to as the 'District of Lake View' until the City of Chicago adopted the 'community areas' concept we call neighborhoods. I tend to save photos & articles outside the neighborhood of Lake View if this important to Lake View's story. I stopped when the City of Chicago adopted the neighbor concept by the 1930 census. It's an arbitrary line of distinction for me and my collecting process.

Once a year I exhibit my private collection at

Sulzer Regional Library in the month of October

My Entire List of Blog Posts

(access through top right side bar)

My Various Sources:

The photos I post in this blog reflect the location found and not the original publication or original distributors of the photo. I did this to encourage others to clean-out their storage closets & attics and find anything related to this subject. Below are web resources I explored for this blog. I refer back to these sources from time to time.

Online Sources
(subject to change)
Explore Chicago Collections
Ravenswood - Lake View Community Collection
Robert W Krueger Collection
William C Brubaker Collection
Edgewater Historical Society
Chicago Public Library - Newspapers
(Chicago library card # access)

HIG-Fire Insurance Maps:

(Chicago library card # access)

HIG 1887 - Volume 9

the following is south of Irving Park Road

HIG 1894 - Volume 9

HIG 1923 - Volume 9

HIG 1950 - Volume 9

the following is north of Irving Park Road

HIG - Volume A - 1894

HIG -Volume 17 - 1905

Historical Map Works 1887

NETR Historical Aerials 1939-2011
Chicago Street Re-Numbering
Chicago Street Name Changes
Chicago Alderman and Wards

(until 1937)

List of Chicago Alderman

(from 1923)

46th ward Planned Developments

44th ward Planned Developments

Streetblog Chicago-Lake View
Vintage Wrigley Field/Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune - Classic Wrigley Field
Chicago History Museum - Wrigley Field
Explore Chicago Collection - Wrigley Field
Wrigley Ivy.com
Chicago Cubs Yesterday and Today
Lake View Saga 1837-1985
Lake View Saga 1985-2005
Chicago Street Changes 1909
Chuckman Collection
Chicago History in Postcards
with a History of Postcards
Chicago History in Pictures
Chicago Historical Schools
CTA Calendars
Jazz Age Chicago
The Chicagoan
Calumet 412

Chicago, the Garden City: Its Magnificent Parks,

(Boulevards and Cemeteries)

Chicago: its history and its builders:

(a century of marvelous growth)

Album of genealogy and biography:

(Cook County, Illinois: with portraits)

Art Institute of Chicago Digital Collection
Library of Congress - Chicago
University of Illinois Carli - IDOT Collection
University of Illinois-Chicago Library
University of Illinois-Chicago Photographic Images of Change
Ryerson & Burnham Archives Archival Image Collection
Digital Research Library of Illinois History
Chicago and Its Suburbs 1873 p.343
Chicago and its Environs 1893
Township of Lake View 1879
Township of Lake View 1885-86
Township of Lake View Treasurer 1879 Report
Chicago Telephone Directory 1892
Northwestern Terra Cotta Catalogue
Lincoln Park Report 1894
Lincoln Park Report 1899
Chicago, The Garden City
(Lincoln Park, Boulevards & Cemeteries)
Chicago and Cook County Cemeteries
Chicago City Rail Lines 1897
Lake View Pumping Stations & Crib
Chicago Highways: old and new
Picturesque Chicago
Moving Picture World
Curbed Chicago - Lake View
Southport Corridor News and Events & blog
Chicago Cityscape
Calumet 412
Chicago Sojourn

(story of 4+1's)
Building Up Chicago
Yelp
Google Map Viewer
Google Map Earth
Yo Chicago
Moss Design
Chicago Past
Chicago History Museum
The Newberry Library
Forgotten Chicago

Churches of 1905 Part I
Churches of 1905 Part II
Churches of 1905 Part III

University of Chicago Digital Collection - Map Collection

(Luna version)

Social Scientists Maps

(Luna version)

W.L Flowers Map 1862 - Library of Congress
David Rumsey Map Collection 1869
Library of Congress Cook County Map 1870
David Rumsey Map Collection 1887

Chicago Daily News Archives 1902-1933
Art Institute of Chicago

St. Croix Architecture
Urban Remains
CardCow.com
Amazon.com
Hip Postcard
Block Club Chicago

(registration required)
DNAinfo Lake View & Wrigleyville
(out of business November 2017)
DNAinfo Boystown
(out of business November 2017)

Facebook Pages of Interest
Forgotten Chicago Discussion Group

Chicagopedia

Original Chicago

Living History of Illinois & Chicago

(Living History of Illinois & Chicago - Blog)

Chicago Before We Were Born

I shopped at Lincoln/Belmont before it turned in to Ghost town

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Index

Google-books Sources:

1) Chicago and it's Suburbs by Everett Chamberlin published in 1874. Please scroll to page 343 to start from the beginning. This publication, as well as the next one covers the Township of Lake View. The community of Ravenswood is on page 370.

2) History of Cook County: The History of Lake View Township by Theodore Andreas published in 1884 - begin on page 708. The Community of Ravenswood is mentioned on page 712.

4) Historical Review of Chicago & Cook County: published 1908
5) Northsiders: Essays on the History and Culture

of the Chicago Cubs published in 2008 has more modern prospective of the Community of Lake View.

YouTube Videos of Interest:

Time-Flash LakeView
CBS:Eyes on LakeView

Lake View - A Neighborhood in Photos

Why I love Lakeview

Lakeview

Lakeview the Neighborhood

Lakeview East Chicago Walking Tour

Walk down Greenview Avenue in Lakeview

Chicago Blizzard Lake View Neighborhood

Paper Books of Great Interest:
Hidden History of Ravenswood & Lake View
by Patrick Butler

Lake View - Images of America
by Matthew Nickerson

East Lake View - Images of America

by Matthew Nickerson

The Lake Saga

there were two publications

1837-1974 & 1837-1985

images from the book - photos Ebay

Helen Zatterberg Manuscript 1937

The first known account of the history of Lake View

Ravenswood-Lake View (Society) Association Founder

Helen Zatterberg
Ms. Zatterberg help found the Ravenswood-Lake View Historical Society in 1934. I am member of the now called Association as well as one of the Board of Directors. Below is an account in 1940.

this article written and submitted by Helen Zatterberg

who was the Secretary-Historian of the Ravenswood-Lake View Association in 1940.The collectibles of old Lake View and Ravenswood are housed in the Sulzer Regional Library, a member library of Chicago Public Library system initially once housed at Hild Library in Lincoln Square neighborhood. The 'Society' originally had its own building on the corner of Montrose and Hermitage Avenue. - image of it below.

The Homes of the

Ravenswood-Lake View Historical Association

the first location of the collection

the second location of the collection
with the third location below

the current location of the library

Sulzer Regional Library - 1985

the collection is housed in its own section of the library

photos below - Garry Albrecht

in library's lobby

Day One at Sulzer Library 1985

My Exhibit in 2017
Sulzer Regional Library had an 'open house' that year and I was invited to show some of my private collection. My collection has tripled its size as of 2020

My Personal Collection
When I had the money to collected memorabilia about the

history of Lake View I did most of my purchases

mostly from Ebay between 2017-2018.

the book collection

the album collection

memorabilia stuffed in my closet

The Nomadic Historian - Me

Any organization who needs me for an event can email me at

lvhistorical@gmail.com

Tools for the Collection

stereoscope viewer

slide scanner

Post Notes:

Explore the countless photography from various contributors of

Lake View from Flickr, as a starter mosaic to my over seventy blog posts on the history of Lake View.

The Name and Addresses

Finding street addresses and street names in Chicago prior to 1909 can be a bit a task. This video can help that process along. This

pdf file is the bible of discovery on address changes and this pdf is a quick and easy way of finding the history of names of the streets.

My Other Blog

The Oak Lawn Blog

I moved to Oak Lawn in 2014 to live with my 90ish old father leaving Lake View far behind, unfortunately. In 2020 due to the boredom of the Covid-19 virus I drafted a short history of Oak Lawn along with my family's history when they moved to it in 1955. Contrary to the Lake View Blog this one is rather short having only four posts.

The List of Posts

Important:

These posts are exclusively used for educational purposes. I do not wish to gain monetary profit from this blog nor should anyone else without permission from the original source - thanks!

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