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Our First Great RP/WR History Book has been reprinted!

We are pleased to announce that the first book on the history of Rogers Park and West Ridge, which was so well received that it sold out in under two years, has been reprinted and is available now.

"Chicago's Far North Side -
An Illustrated History of Rogers Park and West Ridge"
by Neal Samors, Mary Jo Doyle, Martin Lewin and Michael Williams.


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Front Cover Photo:

History Book Front Photo
Back Cover Photo:

History Book Back Photo

11" x 8-1/2", 176 pages and 230 illustrations

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Our Second Great RP/WR History Book!

We are pleased to announce our second book on the history of six micro-neighborhoods in Rogers Park and West Ridge,

"Neighborhoods Within Neighborhoods:
Twentieth Century Life on Chicago's Far North Side":
by Neal Samors and Michael Williams, with Mary Jo Doyle.

Oral histories were conducted with more than 125 current and former neighborhood residents, including Shecky Greene, Hugh Downs, Harold Ramis, Ira Berkow, Joel Weisman, Jan Schakowsky, Sr. Ann Ida Gannon, Neil Hartigan, Art Berman, and Scott Turow.

Quotes from these interviews are used throughout the new book.
Front Cover Photo:
Neighborhood Book Cover




11.25" x 8.75", 240 pages and 175 photographs



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Click here to see some photos from the book in our On-line Gallery.

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