Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Chicago Lawn/Marquette Manor Author

Kathleen J. Headley will be available to sign copies of pictorial history
 
BEDFORD PARK, Ill. - Dec. 4, 2013 - PRLog -- The Marquette Park area on the southwest side of Chicago is comprised of two neighborhoods- Chicago Lawn and Marquette Manor. This book depicts the evolution of both neighborhoods with photographs and images of the earliest developments, buildings, and families-some of which have been professionally reproduced from original glass slides-beginning in 1876 with the arrival of John F. Eberhart, the "Father of Chicago Lawn." Due focus is paid to the common denominator and centerpiece of both communities-Marquette Park. Beginning with early photographs of this popular 323-acre park and golf course, Chicago Lawn/Marquette Manor takes the reader through its grand beginnings as "the playground of the Southwest Side," and features activities throughout the years, including the racial strife it unfortunately acquired national notoriety for. The reader will have the opportunity to peek inside Amos Cravener's grocery store and H.E. Cain's pharmacy, c. 1900, as well as walk down 63rd Street when it was surrounded by prairie, watch as new buildings appear, and return when it is fully populated.

Join the author for a signing:

Where:
 Costco

7300 S. Cicero Ave, Bedford Park IL 60629

When:  Saturday, December 7th, 2013; 11:00 a.m.—2:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665.

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town?

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Author Kathleen J. Headley moved to Chicago Lawn to live near picturesque Marquette Park. She is an active proponent of the neighborhood and sits on the Executive Board of the Chicago Lawn Historical Society and the Advisory Council of Marquette Park. She also writes a weekly column in the Southwest News-Herald.

Chicago Lawn/Marquette Manor

by Kathleen J. Headley

Images of America series

128 pages/ softcover

Available: October 18, 2001
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