Free field trip to the exhibit Rooting, Uprooting the West Side conducted by the Urban Planning & Policy Student Association of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Explore the community around UIC. Learn about the immigrants and their neighborhoods. Discover the institutions they founded. Hear the struggles with displacing forces. Learn what you can to preserve our heritage. Saturday, March 28, 1998 at 11:00AM at the Chicago Historical Society, Clark Street at North Avenue. Free tour followed by optional lunch and speakers at the Big Shoulders Café ($7). All students, faculty, community people, and friends are invited. For information or reservations contact Dan Marmer (773)-772-1148; email<dmarmer1@uic.edu>.
ONGOING to July 19 1998. Rooting, Uprooting the West Side, the fourth neighborhood exhibit in the Chicago Historical Society's series: Neighborhoods: Keepers of the culture. "Who controls the fate of a neighborhood? Trace the tumultuous changes and battles over the future by residents of one Chicago neighborhood." Maxwell Street is part of the West Side and many Maxwell Street artifacts including some from the Maxwell Street Historic Preservation Coalition will be on exhibit. The Chicago Historical Society is located at Clark Street and North Avenue. For more information call 312-642-4600. Underwritten by the Joyce Foundation,, the Robert R. McCormick tribune Foundation, The Elizabeth Morse Charitable trust, the Field Foundation of Illinois, the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, and the Irvin Stern Foundation.
PAST EVENTS
Saturday, January 24 (9:30AM to 12:30PM). Open House and Workshop for Educators. Teaching neighborhood history to elementary and junior high school students. Attend a private viewing of Rooting, Uprooting: The West Side, review educational resources for interpreting neighborhood history and culture, receive exhibition curriculum and activities to use back in the classroom, and enjoy a continental breakfast. To make reservations call: Chicago Historical Society, 312-642-4600, ext 382.
Sunday, January 11 (3:00 - 6:00PM). A Tribute to Maxwell Street. Chicago Voices Interview Series. Join us for a very special program that will use discussion, poetry, and music to celebrate and examine the history of Maxwell Street. Jimmie Lee Robinson, a blues musician and poet who has performed around the country - including Maxwell Street - will pay tribute to the famous street, its market, and its surrounding communities. Cosponsored by the Chicago Historical Society and the Guild Complex of Chicago. $3.00 for CHS and Guild Complex Members; $5.00 for nonmembers. Arthur Ruboloff Auditorium, Chicago Historical Society, Clark at North Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614. For more information call: Laura Kamedulski: 312-642-5035, x 372.
Thursday November 13, 1997 (6:30PM). HopeFest 97: An Annual Blues Benefit Concert for the Homeless -- with BO DIDDLEY; also starring: Big Daddy Kinsey, Billy Branch, Son Seals, Sugar Blue, Bo Diddley's grandson and others. Bo Diddley played on Maxwell Street when he was teenager. Hopefest will be at Park West (322 W. Armitage). For more information, visit the Hopefest website <http://www.openair.org/cch/hopef.html>.
Sunday, November 16, 1997 (2-6PM). Opening celebration for Rooting, Uprooting the West Side, the fourth neighborhood exhibit in the Chicago Historical Society's series: Neighborhoods: Keepers of the culture. This event is free. Complementary refreshments will be served along with live Blues music. Maxwell Street is part of the West Side and artifacts form the Maxwell Street Historic Preservation Coalition will be on exhibit. The Chicago Historical Society is located at Clark Street and North Avenue. To RSVP, call 312-642-5035, ext. 5225. Reservations should be received by November 10.
Thursday, November 20, 1997 (Noon - 1:00PM). Geographical Society Noon Lecture, Maxwell Street: Prospects and Preservation. Slide lecture by Elliot Zashin and Steve Balkin. Eliott Zashin is the former director of the Levine Hillel Center. Steve Balkin is a Professor of Economics at Roosevelt University. This lecture is sponsored by The Geographical Society of Chicago together with the Chicago Public Library. This event is free will take place in the Video Theater at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State St., Chicago.
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