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Logan Square
From a rural farming community to an artistic and financially successful district of one of the country's biggest cities, this is the history of Chicago's Logan Square.
The community now called Logan Square began as a patchwork of farms, hay fields, subdivisions, and small towns in rural Jefferson Township. Subsumed into the rapidly expanding city of Chicago at the end of the 19th century, the elegant residences lining the boulevards would gain prominence as a Midwest Gold Coast. Over time, a shifting kaleidoscope of peoples would call Logan Square home, including Yankee farmers, Scandinavian proprietors, German tradesmen, African American freedmen, Polish shopkeepers, Jewish merchants, Filipino laborers, and Cuban refugees - a diversity further enriched with the many nations of the former Soviet Bloc, as well as Latin America and the Caribbean, that would later settle here. Like many other Chicago neighborhoods, change is the one constant, as the arts have brought a renaissance to this working-class corner of the city. The photographs that appear in this book were compiled by the authors from a variety of private and institutional collections.
The community now called Logan Square began as a patchwork of farms, hay fields, subdivisions, and small towns in rural Jefferson Township. Subsumed into the rapidly expanding city of Chicago at the end of the 19th century, the elegant residences lining the boulevards would gain prominence as a Midwest Gold Coast. Over time, a shifting kaleidoscope of peoples would call Logan Square home, including Yankee farmers, Scandinavian proprietors, German tradesmen, African American freedmen, Polish shopkeepers, Jewish merchants, Filipino laborers, and Cuban refugees - a diversity further enriched with the many nations of the former Soviet Bloc, as well as Latin America and the Caribbean, that would later settle here. Like many other Chicago neighborhoods, change is the one constant, as the arts have brought a renaissance to this working-class corner of the city. The photographs that appear in this book were compiled by the authors from a variety of private and institutional collections.
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128 pages, Paperback
Published June 11, 2018
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May 7, 2020
This is a superb overview of the Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago; a must-own for any current or former resident or an enthusiast of Chicago history in general.
I myself lived in Logan Square from 2000 until 2013, before moving one neighborhood north to Avondale. While I made a point to learn as much of Logan Square's history while a resident, there was much in this book of which I was not previously aware. The authors do a wonderful job of compressing well over 100 years of history into a cohesive picture book of less than 130 pages.
Furthermore, its wild to see photographs of intersections & buildings taken in the 1920's to 1950's and see that many of the buildings back then still stand today.
I myself lived in Logan Square from 2000 until 2013, before moving one neighborhood north to Avondale. While I made a point to learn as much of Logan Square's history while a resident, there was much in this book of which I was not previously aware. The authors do a wonderful job of compressing well over 100 years of history into a cohesive picture book of less than 130 pages.
Furthermore, its wild to see photographs of intersections & buildings taken in the 1920's to 1950's and see that many of the buildings back then still stand today.
May 27, 2020
I will always like these books. This one was long awaited as I lived here. But, as always, they are so mish-mashed. They really need a map included to get your bearings and the writing really needs to improve. No matter the author, the captions are always confusing. Nice pictures.
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