Uptown Chicago History

Celebrating the Unique History and Culture of Chicago's Uptown Community

January 4, 2009

Growing Up in Uptown Chicago

Courtesy Johnny JB Brooks, on YouTube

Posted by Joanne

Labels: Magnolia, Sunnyside, Uptown Memories

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Fiction Set in Uptown Chicago

The Sheridan Road Mystery

The Street Gypsies

Death in Uptown

Killer on Argyle Street

The Beggars' Shore

The White Tiger

City Dogs

Penance

Annie's Angel

A Punk in Gallows America

Guardian Angel

Yada Yada Prayer Group

Hotel of Irrevocable Acts

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Nonfiction Books About Uptown Chicago

Landmarks and Legends of Uptown

Sacramental Cocoa and Other Stories from the Parish of the Poor

Reversing Urban Decline: The Winthrop-Kenmore Corridor in the Edgewater and Uptown Communities of Chicago

Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago

Behind the Golden Door: Refugees in Uptown

A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)

Beyond Segregation: Multiracial And Multiethnic Neighborhoods In The United States

The Chicago Movie Palaces of Balaban and Katz

Chaplin at Essanay: A Film Artist in Transition, 1915-1916

Folklore and Mythology Archive

Wonder Tales from Baltic Wizards, The Piper Came to Our Town: Bagpipe Folklore, Legends & Fairy Tales, Turf Fire Stories and Fairy Tales of Ireland, Tales and Legends of Sweden and Norway, Swedish Fairy Tales, The Legend of Saint Patrick's Purgatory

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Balaban and Katz Magazine

CompassRose.org and the Uptown Chicago History Blog are pleased to offer a free facsimile edition of the 1925 Balaban and Katz Magazine featuring the opening of the Uptown Theatre in Chicago. Click image or link to download the free PDF.

Flapper Girls at Wilson and Sheridan

Read an excerpt of Ben Hecht's work, featuring Uptown in the 1920s, here: Flapper Girls at Wilson and Sheridan

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