Rogers Park Revisited
In regards to: the Rogers Park/West Ridge volunteerism section I enjoyed the depiction of Rogers Park, the neighborhood I live in and love, but I’m troubled because you haven’t included Howard Area Community Center, one of the oldest and most vital community organizations in the neighborhood, as a place with myriad volunteer opportunities. This organization has provided 42 years of service to the Howard area of the Rogers Park community.
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We offer a GED and ESL classes and tutoring, counseling to help people overcome various challenges, we provide childcare, an alternative high school servicing students aged 16-20, legal clinic, dental clinic, services for specific needs like AIDS/ HIV and domestic violence as well as a food and clothing pantry.
Howard Area Community Center
The antique mall was never a Jewel in my lifetime & I’ve lived in RP since 1950 [“The Savages of Time”]. The Jewel on Broadway was on Rosemont, east of Broadway. Now it’s the Ismaili mosque. If you mean the antique mall on the west side of Broadway between Devon & Rosemont, that used to be Lambert’s Bowling alley.
The correct spelling of the restaurant is Zanadu & it was a Mel Markon restaurant, not a Lettuce one. It closed in January, 1979, during the blizzard with the best out-of-business sign I’ve ever seen on a restaurant (“Closed for extant roof repair”)!
Thanks for the clarification. The sources I read considered the line irrelevant to the development of Rogers Park until the stop was built in 1873. Timetables often included stops for stations that were anticipated but not yet built.
