Box 16
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Suggestions for Edgewater Golf Club Land (mailed in from newspaper readers), approximately 1969-1970
File — Box: 16, Folder: 875
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Research materials related to Lily Venson’s journalism on the crusade to preserve the private Edgewater Golf Club land for the public in the creation of Laurence C. Warren Park in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood. She wrote approximately 100 feature stories on the crusade for Lerner Newspapers, for which she received a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize and was awarded a plaque from Illinois Governor Richard Ogilvie.Edgewater Golf Club’s land had been sought after for...
Dates:
approximately 1969-1970