Join us for our Annual Meeting and Event.

Friday, June 18 as we tour historic Printer's Row

with dinner following at Edwardo's Natural

Pizza Restaurant.

$25 per person ($35 after June 10) includes the tour and dinner. Sign Up today, June 10, and save $10.

Meet at 5:30 at Dearborn Station (the corner of Dearborn and Polk) for a guided walk by Chicago Elevated Tours. Spouses/kids/significant others are all welcome. We know this will be a fun event for all!

Printer's Row was originally the levee district in the late 1800's, even back then it was a neighborhood unlike any others. When the levee was basically shut down in the early 1900's, that's when the printing companies began to move in - right down the river from Montgomery Ward's huge catalog warehouse.

The printing companies commissioned architects to build this "new style" of building - skyscrapers. Many of the best and brightest of Chicago's earliest architects have buildings on Printer's Row.  The history on Dearborn alone is staggering.

Many of these buildings have survived and have been a part of "adaptive reuse" meaning basically they've been turned into condos. The neighborhood now is still really artsy and a little bohemian with lots of still privately owned businesses and probably the best bookstore in the city.

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