City Correspondent: Chicago Lawn
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September 3, 2010
As summer nears an end, let’s take one last look at the summer of 1985. Mayor Jane Byrne visited the neighborhood in July to check out the...
August 27, 2010 Today let’s go back just a short time (Although it’s already been 25 years, yikes!) to 1985.
This week in 1985 we listened to Tommy...
August 20, 2010 In 1969, the New York Jets became the first American League football team to win the Super Bowl. And in baseball, the Chicago Cubs had a million...
July 23, 2010 I imagine most everyone that is over the age of 40 remembers what they were doing on the evening of July 20, 1969. Shortly after 7 p.m. Americans...
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July 9, 2010 This week let’s go back to the summer of 1969. It was, of course, the Age of Aquarius with peace, love, sit-ins, and protests.
Here on the...
July 2, 2010 For the last two weeks, we’ve been talking about the beginning of telephone service in Chicago Lawn. That was in 1902. This week, let’s...
June 25, 2010 When we left last week, it was 1902 and the first telephone exchange in Chicago Lawn had been installed in the home of May Blair on the 3500 block of...
June 18, 2010 This past week I had the unfortunate experience of being without a phone – or a computer or cable television — from late Wednesday until...
June 11, 2010 This week let’s go back to 1945. Our neighborhood looked ahead to many of our local servicemen coming home. The OPA announced that veterans...