Vivid Glimpses:
Field Study of Chicago Neighborhoods
Field Study (done in conjunction with the American Cities course)
(History 263)

Michael H. Ebner
Lake Forest College
APRIL 21, 2001 (SATURDAY)

See also the Field Study information for Spring 2000.

Professor Ebner's comments on teaching this course for 25 years in:
"Nurturing Romance Between Now and Then,"
Common-Place, The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 3:4 (July, 2003)
http://www.common-place.org/vol-03/no-04/school/

Photo of outside a movie theater in Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue, Chicago (July 1940)
Outside of a movie theater in Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue, Chicago (July, 1940).

SOURCE: John Vachon (1914-1975) for the Farm Security Administration.
Library of Congress (Call #: LC-USF-001907-M1)


The field study is organized so that participants encounter Chicago through a succession of experiential snapshots, or vivid glimpses. It is a day of striking contrasts: poverty and wealth; population diversity and demographic renewal; and an extraordinary range of physical environments.

Sites visited includes:
  1. a walk in the Six-corners neighborhood on Northwest side of Chicago;
  2. a walk in the Southside's Bridgeport neighborhood of the Daley family;
  3. the site of the former Chicago stockyard district;
  4. the Robert Taylor Homes of the Chicago Housing Authority;
  5. Hyde Park, home of the University of Chicago;
  6. a group luncheon in Chinatown;
  7. a walk along the Gold Coast on the near Northside;
  8. a visit to The Chicago Historical Society; and
  9. Devon Avenue to study the city's changing ethnic population.
Wear comfortable walking shoes and dress appropriately for the weather.
Cameras encouraged. The field study is not appropriate for children.

Reservations

Advanced Reservations Required
(approximately 12 spaces available)
To make your reservation, please contact ...
John Geary (x 5210 or geary@lfc.edu)
or stop by the Campus Activities Office in Commons.

Reservations accepted immediately on a first-come, first-served basis.

Rain or shine, we depart campus at 8:45 AM from the parking lot adjacent to Commons and should return not later than 5:30 PM. Transportation and museum admission are free. You are responsible for the cost of our price-fixed group luncheon in Chinatown. Cost is approximately $8.00. Please bring small bills; no checks or credit cards.

Support for this program is made possible by
the Chicago Outreach Program of Lake Forest College.


SPRING 2000 Field Trip

Photo of Lake Forest College students, faculty, and staff walk through an alley in the bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago (April 2000).
Lake Forest College students, faculty, and staff walk through an alley in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago. In the background is the Nativity of our Lord Church, the parish of the late mayor Richard J. Daley. (April 2000)




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