Belmont Cragin (Chicago, Ill.)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Belmont Cragin Community Collection
Collection
Identifier: nnhc-bc
Abstract
This small collection contains clippings, programs, yearbooks, photographs, and biographical and historical sketches of the Belmont Cragin neighborhood in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.
Dates:
1883 - 1946; Majority of material found within 1913 - 1946
John Drury Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: nnhc-jdc
Abstract
John Drury (1898-1972) began his career in journalism as a reporter for the Los Angeles Record in 1920. Three years later, he returned to his native Chicago and became a feature writer and columnist for various Chicago newspapers such as the Chicago Daily News and the Lincoln-Belmont Booster where he wrote his series of historical sketches until 1953. This collection contains photocopied newsclippings from three...
Dates:
1940 - 1959