East Lake View (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781467125376)

East Lake View is one of Chicago's most popular neighborhoods. But what exactly is East Lake View? It is Wrigleyville, Boystown, and Belmont Harbor. It is New Town, if you talk to a longtimer. Change has swept East Lake View many times, often leaving a new name behind. One thing has stayed the same--the neighborhood's popularity. East Lake View drew tourists as far back as 1854, when Lake View House opened as a rural resort. This book unfolds the history of East Lake View, from the 19th century to the 21st century. Readers will learn about the neighborhood's time as a Swedish enclave and then as a haven for Japanese Americans, including Tokyo Rose. The book charts the wild 1970s on Broadway, the gay 1980s on Halsted, and the beer-soaked 1990s in Wrigleyville. This visual history of East Lake View mines Chicago archives and old-timers' scrapbooks to reveal the neighborhood in hundreds of never before published photographs.

Author: Matthew Nickerson
ISBN-10: 1467125377
ISBN-13: 9781467125376
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Language: English
Published: 03/13/2017
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 0.40d