Northside Clubs and Organizations Digital Collection

CPL's Digital Collections document life in Chicago through archival images, documents and artifacts.

Christian Fellowship Church, picnic at Schiller Park woods, 1930

Members of the Girls' Patriotic Service League at Portage Park, 1919

Mayor Harold Washington at the Ravenswood Manor Improvement Association 70th anniversary celebration, 1984

Ravenswood Manor Improvement Association's annual picnic, circa 1984

Ravenswood Manor Improvement Association's cleanup campaign, 1965

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Explore the thriving civic service scene on Chicago's North Side as well as the rich ethnic and religious heritage of the community.

This digital collection includes the following collections:

Christian Fellowship Church digital collection: Activities of the church founded by Conrad and Martha Wendtland in their home in 1926.
Portage Park Community digital collection: Patriotism on display during World War I.
Ravenswood Manor Improvement Association digital collection: Community activism in the Northside riverfront neighborhood.

These collections are housed in the Northside Neighborhood History Collection at Sulzer Regional Library.

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Acknowledgment of Harmful Materials

Chicago Public Library collects images, documents and other archival materials from different communities and time periods to preserve and make available the cultural and historical record. As historical objects, some of these materials contain harmful or disturbing content. CPL presents these artifacts as an unfiltered social record and does not endorse the views expressed therein.