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The Historian Preserving & Promoting Neighborhood History The Historian Preserving & Promoting Neighborhood History Volume 33, No. 1 Coming in October: The World Spring 2017 in One Neighborhood Cookbook In This Issue From the President’s Desk By Dona Vitale, Cookbook Team Leader page 2 Annual Meeting Reviews Year’s Rogers Park and West Ridge have long Accomplishments been known as among the most ethnically page 3 and culturally diverse neighborhoods in RPWRHS Board Welcomes New Member Chicago. Successive waves of newcomers page 5 have brought their food traditions to our First Annual Hank Morris Historian Award Given to Its Namesake community, and the foods we eat every day page 6 reflect a cornucopia of cuisines from around In 2017 We’re Exploring the the world. To preserve and celebrate the Activist Past and Present of Rogers Park and West Ridge rich variety of foods served in local homes page 6 and restaurants, the Rogers Park/West Activism in Action: Thanks to a Ridge Historical Society is putting together Fundraising Hero page 7 a cookbook to collect and share recipes Historical Society Visits ECAC treasured by members of our community, Ethiopian Cultural Center past and present. page 7 Items from the Ethiopian The idea for this project originated with Museum at ECAC page 9 Loyola University Public History graduate Remarks of Dr. Erku Yimer at the students Kate Johnson, Ariel Medoff, Ethiopian Community Association Stephen Petrie, and Jill Walker, who Program on February 23, 2017 page 10 suggested a community cookbook as part of Historic Building at 1730 W. the fundraising proposal they prepared for Greenleaf Still Standing after a 2016 class presentation to the RPWRHS Many Years page 12 board. A modified version of their proposal Profile of Office Assistant was adopted by the board as the Historical share. We hope to include recipes from all Stephanie Barto Society’s major fundraising effort for page 16 eras, all ethnic groups, and all corners of 2017. As suggested by the team, when the “Property” Exhibit Results from the community. We’re looking for every Collaboration cookbook is ready for sale in October, we’ll type of recipe: everyday family favorites, page 18 be holding a “Taste of Rogers Park/West traditional ethnic dishes, foods that Culinary Historian Colleen Sen Ridge” to celebrate the publication and raise Writes about Food Around the celebrate holidays and special occasions, World additional funds. page 19 and menu items from local restaurants Ashland Avenue, Named for To make the students’ vision a reality, we past and present. Favorite appetizers, main Kentucky Estate of Henry Clay need recipes from current residents, dishes, soups, salads, side dishes, baked page 20 former residents, restauranteurs, and goods, desserts, snacks, and beverages are anyone else with a delicious dish to all welcome. page 2 • Spring 2017 • The Historian The names of contributors will be shown with are also scouring our archives at the Historical Sponsors their recipes, preserving their place in the Society for recipes from the past. More help is history of Rogers Park and West Ridge. Recipes welcome; contact [email protected] or call 773- The Rogers Park/West Ridge can also be contributed in honor or in memory 764-4078 to join the team. Historical Society is grateful of anyone who has lived in the neighborhood or for the support of the Recipes have already come in from a variety left a mark on it, making the submission a great following sponsors. Please of contributors, and everyone is welcome to way to honor a family member or friend. patronize them. share their favorites. To submit recipes, go Local restaurant contributors will also be to www.rpwrhs.org/cookbook, stop by the Platinum recognized in a Restaurant Directory to be office, or call 773-764-4078 to find out how. S&C Electric Company included as part of the book. The cookbook will be for sale to recipe Gold The volunteer cookbook team, consisting of contributors, community members, and anyone Closet Box Linda Bressler, Katy Donlon, Kate Johnson, interested in Chicago’s food heritage; it will be Clark Devon Hardware Earl Manesky, Harriet Russell, Colleen Sen, a wonderful holiday gift for every cook on your Carol Veome, and Dona Vitale has begun Silver list. Check your recipe file, and make your best Heather Steans State Senator soliciting recipes from friends and neighbors, dishes part of neighborhood history. Vivid Seats community groups, and local restaurants. They Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers LaGrange Country Bronze From the President’s Desk State Farm Insurance I want to welcome A couple of weeks ago, I, along with a standing- Winnemac Properties everyone to our room-only crowd of your neighbors, attended Baird & Wagner spring issue of The a program at our office at 7363 N. Greenview. CAPS Beat 2411 Historian. This is The exhibit shared at the program focused on Hydra-Stop the first issue to the Participatory Budgeting process pioneered appear without the by Joe Moore, our long-time Alderman, and New and Renewing guiding blue pencil was curated by Cecilia Salinas, our newest President Ken Walchak Members of our longtime board member. Along with the bulk of our October 1,2016 - editor, board member, and transportation buff, programming for this year, it centered on the March 31, 2017 Henry “Hank” Morris. Hank never failed theme of activism—personal and community. to answer the call to help with virtually any Activism has taken many forms over the years. Annual Members Historical Society project. He often wrote much Stephanie Barto From Joe’s Participatory Budgeting, to David of the content for the award-winning publication Justin Bergquist Orr, the Clerk of Cook County, and a former that you are reading now. We all miss him, and Wendy Bright activist Alderman of the 49th Ward; to Michael I think the best way to honor his memory is Irwin Davis James, longtime neighborhood activist, and to carry on publishing a newsletter that Hank Art Gilfand co-founder of the Heartland Café. Volunteerism George Glastris would be proud of. and activism seems to be in the DNA of Rogers Sam Grayson Christina Guswiler If any of you are willing or able to jump in and Parkers and West Ridgers. It’s what makes Steve Heller give us a hand with this vital project, please our two neighborhoods so vital. Our recent Marcia Hermansen contact me at [email protected] or programs at the Ethiopian Community Center, Christopher Hillbruner call the Historical Society at 773-764-4078 to and others like it, just continue to reinforce Stacie Hull be roped in as a volunteer. (Leave a message this activist streak. Please help us keep this Erik Hull on the office phone if no one answers.) You programming free and available to all by joining Atanasios Kalantzis will find the salary we offer well below what your Historical Society. Even if you are reading Heather Kirkpatrick you are used to earning. That, along with our this from outside the immediate area, consider incomparable benefit package, will keep you making a donation. Just go to our website www. committed. rpwrhs.org and click on the big green “Become www.rpwrhs.org www.facebook.com/RPWRHS page 3 • Spring 2017 • The Historian a Member” button. collect personal recipes from different eras and New and Renewing ethnic groups, along with those from restaurants Members I spoke with a man the other night who shares whether in business now or long gone. Allow continued my uncle’s last name. While it doesn’t appear us to publish old family recipes, and we will we are relatives, he is planning on becoming help honor your ancestors, and earn my undying Annual Members a lifetime member of our organization. While Mary Krause gratitude (and that of my wife!). To get more we encourage as many of you as possible who Isabell Kyrk information, go to rpwrhs.org and click on the have the means to follow this man’s lead, we are Phillip J. McGovern green “Cookbook” button, or click here: rpwrhs. interested in attracting as many new members Charle Metalitz org/cookbook. Carol Migalski as possible, regardless of the level. So please Mark Milkovic consider a contribution to help us solidify our And finally, one thing to remember: A recent Geoffrey Murphy finances. research study that I can’t properly cite showed M. C. Peceny that volunteer work is associated with a lower One last thing before the editor gets out the Bonnie Ruben incidence of cognitive complaint. That means John Schermerhorn hook and hauls me off my soapbox. We are that those who volunteer are happier. So... have Hilary Ward Schnadt having a fundraiser this fall. As part of it, we fun—volunteer for the Rogers Park/West Ridge Laura Skender are publishing a community cookbook. (See the Historical Society!! Glen Timmerman article in this issue for more.) We are looking to Robert L. Tull Susan Varno (Vance) Bill Wallace Margaret Wallyn Annual Meeting Reviews Year’s Kathe Walton Joseph Winsberg Accomplishments The Society made significant strides in Annual Senior Members By Dave Kalensky almost eliminating an operating deficit, which Nathan Arrington decreased from $25,690 in 2015 to $3,024 in Ellen Hepner Barnes 2016. Treasurer Dona Vitale and the board LeRoy Blommaert accomplished this “miracle” by trimming Linda A. Bloomfield operating expenses while increasing the revenue Patricia Daly Raymond DeGroote stream through attracting business sponsors and Roberta Goehmann growing the membership (Figure 1). Emily Gross Martin Halacy Thomas Joseph Gary Knutson Carleen & Jan Lorys Dan Miller Lin Prucher from the Rogers Park Food Co-op Geraldine Moran Rosalind Morris The 2017 Annual Meeting took place Saturday Benita Myles March 25, 2017 at the Rogers Park Public Tom Nall Mary Oellrich Library.
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