Included within the Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest's subject
files can be found archived files including but not exclusive to newspaper
articles,
brochures, advertisements, newspaper photos, programs, newsletters, business
documents, personal correspondence, etc... Other items may be listed in
parentheses or have a link provided for further information.
OP Academy of Movement and Music
--Momenta -Tidmarsh-[See Organization files]
OP Accidents
OP Acorns [Soccer team 1935] (team photo)
OP Actors
OP ADA Compliance-[See Also "OP
Disabled, Services For"]
AIDS-[See Also Organizations "Community Response"
OP All-American City 1976
OP Alleys
OP Ambulances (historical report)
OP Animals (village documents)
OP Annexation
OP Anniversary [75th] 1977 (service script)
OP Anniversary [50th] 1951 ("wooden nickel" souvenir, automobile sticker, stock
certificate, window sticker)
OP Anniversary [25th] 1927
OP Apartments
OP Architecture
OP Arms-[See Motels]
OP Arts, The
OP Art Center
OP Artists and Art Fairs [Art In The Park]
OP Art Exhibitions
OP Authors (local artist lists)
OP Autos (automobile stickers, owners lists)
OP Banking Institutions (by-laws)
--Avenue Bank & Trust/Firstar/US Bank (proposal photos/sketches,
historical document)
--Community Bank of OPRF
--First Bank of Oak Park
--Suburban Trust & Savings/Pinnacle/Old Kent/Fifth Third
--OP Trust/First Chicago/Bank One (historical document, bankbook,
certificates)
OP Barrie Park-[See "Gas
Coal Tar Investigation"] Barclay Photo
OP Beautification Activities
OP Bicentennial Celebration Series
OP Bicycles
OP Birds
OP Black Residents
OP Bliss School of Music
OP Block Parties
OP Board of Realtors-[See Organizations File]
OP Book Fair
OP Boys' Conference
OP Brotherhood Events
OP Buggy Rides
OP Building Permits (applications, village code)
OP Businesses
OP Businesses General (historical survey, business envelopes)
OP BUSINESSES BY TYPE
--Advertising Agencies
--Art Galleries
--Auctions
--Bakeries
--Bed and Breakfasts
--Book Stores
--Clothing
--Dairies
--Domestic help
--Food and grocery stores
--Funeral Home, Burial Customs
--Furniture Refinishing and upholstering
--Galleries
--Hair Salons
--Home-based business
--Jewelry
--Old advertisements and brochures
--Pharmacies and Drug Stores
--Real Estate Brokers
--Restaurants
--Vehicle Dealerships
OP BUSINESSES BY NAME
--Atlas Film Co.
--Austin Bros. Construction Co.
--Avenue Garage
--Avenue Pharmacy
--Blasé Foods-[See also "Photographs"]
--Blue Parrot
--Brooks Laundry
--Cablevision
--Economy Shop -[See also Organization File]
--Marshall Field's
--Gilmores-[See also "Photographs"]
--Lange Florist
--Mar Lac Banquets-[See also Theater "Warrington Opera House"]
--Nicholas Hardware
--Pebbles
--Peterson's Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor (Interview)
--Philanders Restaurant, Poor Phil's
--Popken Hardware
--Suburban Coal
--Tasty Dog
--Thyme and Honey- [See also "Signs"]
--Trappers Supply
--Walker's
--Walgreen's
--Wieboldts
--Women's Exchange
--Wright Elson
OP BUSINESSES BY STREET
--Austin
--Garfield
--Chicago
--Harlem
--Harrison
--Lake St.-[See also "Downtown OP" Organizational File]
--Madison
--Marion
--North Ave.
--North Blvd.
--Oak Park/Eisenhower-[See Organizations "STOP", Formerly OPEC]
--Oak Park/Lake
--Ridgeland
--Roosevelt
--South Blvd.
OP Calendar of Community Events (1987-1991)
OP Camp "Goodwill", OPRF social services tenement camp (1899 social services
info)
OP Cavalcade of Pride
OP Census
1880
1920
1952
1960
OP Center of Creativity
Century of Progress--Oak Park Day (more copies of souvenir book
in century file.)
OPRF Chamber of Commerce-[See also "Organizations File"]
OP Children's Day
OP Children's Museum-[See Organizations File]
OP Churches [general information] also [See Organizations File "Community of
Churches"]
(Church Utilization Study, religious reports, religious studies, religious
census)
OP CHURCHES
Ascension-[See also schools file]
Austin Blvd. Christian
Bahai of Oak Park
Beacon Unitarian
Bethel Temple
Calvary-Madison Street Church
Chinese Church
Christ The King
Christ Lutheran
Church of the Nazarene
Circle Church
Disciples of Christ
Emmanuel Evangelical
Euclid Av. United Methodist
Fair Oaks Presbyterian
Faith United Methodist-AKA Faith Methodist
Fellowship Christian
First Baptist
First Church of Christ
First Congregational-2 Folders
First Presbyterian
First United
First United Methodist-AKA First Methodist (dedication material)
Good Samaritan (St. George)
Good Shepherd Lutheran
Gospel Association
Grace Episcopal
Harrison Street Bible (historical report)
Harvard Congregational
Holy Trinity Church of God in Christ
(Washington Blvd. Methodist)
International Love
Judson Baptist
Mt. Carmel Church-[See also "Black Residents"
File]
Mennonite
North Congregational
OP Christian church
OP Evangelical
OP Lutheran (dedication material)
Our Lady Immaculate (2nd Presbyterian)
Parkview Presbyterian (dedication material)
Promise (c) Hope
Pilgrim Congregational (dedication material)
Quakers
St. Catherine/St. Lucy-[See also "Schools"
File]
St. Christopher's Episcopal
St. Edmund's-[See also
Schools File]
St. Giles-[See also "Schools"
File]
St. Gregorius Indian Orthodox
St. John United Methodist
Second Presbyterian [Our Lady Immaculate] (dedication material)
Temple B'Nai Abraham Zion
Third Congregational
Trinity Lutheran
United Christian Baptist
United Church of Christ
United Lutheran
Unity Universalist-[See also "FLW Bio File and Photographs File"]
Unity (Euclid and Superior)
Village Church (with Steven Linscott information)
Washington Blvd. Methodist
Wesleyan Methodist
West Central
Willard M. E.
OP Citizens Action Committee
OP Civic Beautification Commission
OP Community Design Commission
OP Community Development Block Grants/Other Grant Monies For Community Develop.
OP Community Lecture Series-[See Boxes]
OP Community Relations
OP Condominiums
OP Conservatory
OP Contractors
OP Courts
OP Crime-General ([See also "Gangs," "Drugs,")]
OP Crime-Drugs and Alcohol
OP Crossing Guards
OP Cultural Arts Festival
OP Cultural Center-[See Organizations File "Cultural Arts Center OPRF"]
OP Cultural Diversity
OP D Day--50th Anniversary
OP Dance-Studios, groups, Academy
OP Day Care/Children only-For Adults
OP Day In Our Village
OP Day Nursery
OP Design Review Commission
OP Dial Award
OP Disabled Services-[See also "ADA"]
OP Doctors
OP Dog Pound
OP Downtown (Retail Sales report)
OP Drug Problem/Alcohol Related
OP Pioneers
OP Earth Day
OP Economic Development
OP Eisenhower Expressway (historical report)
OP Election Campaign Materials (1901 campaign posters)
OP Elections Misc. (candidates list, campaign pennants, window stickers)
OP Elections (by years)
1953
1957 (candidate information list)
1965 (candidate information list)
1969 (candidate information list)
1973 (official canvass of election)
1977
1981
1985
1989
1991
1992 redistricting
1993
1995
1997
2000
OP Emmaus Bible School
OP Ethnic Festival [District 97]
OP Events, Benefits, Festivals, Concerts * No House Tours-[See "House
Tours" File]
OP Exchange Congress (proceedings report)
OP Exhibitions
OP Famous People: Lists [See "Center of
Creativity" File]
OP Farmers' Market
OP Festival 1978 (organizational files)
OP Festival Theater
OP Films and Filmmaking: "As Time Goes By"/Television
OP Fire Department (1895 OP fire "log", 1890 Ridgeland Fire Association
Constitution)
OP Flood
OP Flower (Nasturtium)
OP Food Pantry
OP Fountain (Horse Show Fountain Dedication)
OP Freedom Hall (In B'nai Abraham Zion Temple)
OP Gambling
OP Gangs
OP Gangsters
OP Garbage (Historical inventory of solid waste disposal sites in NE Illinois)
OP Garden Show-[See Organizations File "Garden Club" and Boxes]
OP Gas (Coal Tar Investigation)-[See
Barrie Park]
OP Gay And Lesbian/Registering/Rights "OPALGA"-[See Organizations File "OP
Lesbian and Gay Assn."]
OP General Info (sociological study 1934-5, Chicago Regional Hospital Study
1973)
Newspaper Clippings
Brochures
OP Geology (Mineralogy of the Chicago Area Survey 1902, State Geological Survey
1964)
OP Golf Club-[See Organizations File "Westward Ho Golf Club" and "RF Golf Club"]
OP Graffiti
OP Gulf War
OP Hand Guns-Gun Control
OP Hazardous Waste
OP Head Start Program
OP Health (1885 Town of Cicero Health Regulations, 1937 OP Health Report, 1948
Study of Health in OP)
OP Hephzibah Children's Home
OP Hiroshima Day
OP Hispanics
OP Historical Hazards
OP Historic District General File (study of land use within historical
districts)
OP Historic District [Proposed] {Farson}
OP Historic District [1st]{Frank Lloyd Wright}
OP Historic District Gunderson [3rd]-[See Binders and Bio Information
(Completion Report/ Historic Resources Survey)
OP Historic District Ridgeland [2nd] (National Historic Places nomination form,
Architecture guide, Village ordinance
document)
OP Historic Structures inventory (Inventory of Historic Structures in OP)
OP Historic Preservation Commission (long-term Historic Preservation Plan,
Historic Preservation ordinance)
OP History Overview [Mostly Theses and Reminiscences] (Oak Leaves "I remember"
letters)
1. History Pioneer-1900 Pre. 1900's (map of Indian trails)
5. 1930's 9. 1970's
2. Early 1900's 6. 1940's 10. 1980-1990's
3. 1910's 7. 1950's-1990's Personal Accomp.
4. 1920's 8. 1960's
OP Holiday Celebrations-Fourth of July Celebration
OP Homeless
OP Horse Show (metal tags 1905-07)
OP Hospitals (Separate Folders)
Oak Park
West Suburban/Loyola
OP Hotels [Separate Folders]
Carleton
Oak Park Arms
Plaza
Write Inn
General
OP House Tours
[St. Edmunds]
OP House Walks And Tours-[See "Tours" FLW Bio File; "House Tours" Hemingway
Bio File]
OP Housing-Rehabilitation: Appearance
OP Housing Authority
OP Housing Center
OP Housing Code
OP Housing Law
OP Housing Rehab
OP Incorporation (record of proceedings)
OP Indians
OP Indians-Early Settlers (Indian Place Names in Illinois-ISHS)
OP Integration-Hearings and Petitions 1963-1978 (integration strategy study)
OP Integration-1979-Present
OP Integration-Delphi Method (Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council Reports)
OP Intercultural
OP Iroquois Theater Fire/Disaster (Programs from night of fire)
OP July 4th Celebration
OP Junior College
OP Kettlestrings Festival
OP Ku Klux Klan-[See Organizations File]
OP Labor Unions
OP Land Marks Commission
OP Lecture Programs
OP Libraries
Scoville Institute [General File] (Correspondence 1914, Bills 1890, 1891, 1892,
1893,
1894, 1895)
Dole Branch
Maze Branch
Main Library
OP Liquor Ordinance
OP Mafia
OP Malls-General
OP Malls-Opening (Early to mid 1970's), Brochures, Pamphlets
OP Malls-Controversy 1980's
OP Maps
--Maps-Architectural
--Maps-Bird's Eye View & Aerial
--Maps-Election
--Maps-Zoning
OP May Madness (Midnight)
OP Medallion Contest
OP Mental Health-[See Organizations "Family Service and Mental Health Center"
OP Metra Northwestern Station
OP Midwest Center for World Missions
OP Minorities
OP Monuments & Plaques
OP Morticians, [See Funeral Homes (Burial Customs) in OP Business, By Type File]
OP Movie Theaters-Lake Theater
OP Movie Theaters-Southern Theater
OP Movie Theaters-Oak Park Theater
(Later Lamar)
OP Movie Theaters & General
([See also OP Warrington Opera House)
OP Movie Theaters-Elmwood Theater
OP Movies Of,
OP Movie Stars (Local)
OP Murals, Works Progress
Administration [W.P.A.] [See also Hatch School]
OP Music-[See Organizations "MacDowell Artists Assoc."
OP Music-Band Concerts
OP Music-Municipal Bond
OP Music-Recitals & Concerts [Suzuki]
OP Musicians
OP Nazis-[See Photographs "Parades"]
OP Newspapers-General File
OP Newspapers-The Economist-[See Loose Copies]
OP Newspapers-Oak Leaves-[See Bound Copies-Microfilm at Main Library]
OP Newspapers-The Oak Park Argus
OP Newspapers-The Oak Park Events
OP Newspapers-Oak Park News
OP Newspapers-Oak Park Reporter
OP Newspapers-Oak Park Times*-Microfilm at Main Library
OP Newspapers-The Oak Parker-[See Loose copies]
OP Newspapers-Oak Park Record
OP Newspapers-The Optimist
OP Newspapers-Vindicator-[See Bound 1890's Copies-Microfilm at Main Library]
OP Newspapers-Wednesday Journal
OP Newspapers-World
OP Nicholas Award
OP Nineteenth Century Women's Club-Scholarships
OP Oak Park Center
OP F.Y.I.
OP Oak Park-River Forest Day Nursery
OP Painted Ladies-[See 19th Century Club Organizational File]
OP Parades
OP Parking
OP Parks-Park and Rec. Dept. History (OP Rec. Dept. History 1916-1967)
OP Parks-Overview [Park Dist. Pre-1980 and General Info on Parks] (1937
Historical Survey of OP- Parks, 1964 Report for a
consolidated park and recreation system)
OP Parks-History (Separation and Merger with Rec. Dept.)
OP Parks-Park District History (After 1990)
OP Parks-Program Directories (Chronological Order)-[See File Box in Cabinet]
OP Parks
A. Anderson Playground F. Greenfield K. Ridgeland
B. Austin Gardens G. Gymnastics Center L. Scoville
C. Barrie Park H. Longfellow M. Stevenson
D. Field I. Maple N. Taylor
E. Fox J. Rehm
OP Parks-Park District Board Minutes (1980-1994)-
OP Pesticides [See also Oak Park Parks]
OP Pictures (Commemorative Drawings Oak Park)
OP Pioneers/Early Settlers
OP Planning
OP Pleasant Home-Architect/Renovation Information (1987 Building Condition
Report, Restoration Proposal)
OP Pleasant Home-Bibliography
OP Pleasant Home-For Docent, KL Researchers to Handle
OP Pleasant Home-Collection Policy
OP Pleasant Home-Committee
OP Pleasant Home-Design Motifs
OP Pleasant Home-Events
OP Pleasant Home-Farson/Mills Committee (1977)
OP Pleasant Home-Farson/Mills Correspondence figures
OP Pleasant Home-Farson/Mills Exterior repairs
OP Pleasant Home-Farson/Mills Medallion Restoration
OP Pleasant Home-Farson/Mills Meeting, Field, abd phone notes
OP Pleasant Home-Farson/Mills Restoration receipts
OP Pleasant Home-Farson Photos
OP Pleasant Home-Fences, Plaques, Urns
OP Pleasant Home-Furniture & Decorative Arts
OP Pleasant Home-Furniture Inventory (1987)
OP Pleasant Home-General (Historical and architectural report)
OP Pleasant Home-Guides
OP Pleasant Home-Historical Society Tenure
OP Pleasant Home-Landmark Status
OP Pleasant Home-Historic Structures Report
OP Pleasant Home-Pleasant Home Foundation
OP Pleasant Home-Park District Plans For
OP Pleasant Home-People Who Know It
OP Pleasant Home-Picture & Plans
OP Pleasant Home-Tour Program
OP Politics Pre-Incorporation-[See Organizations "Democratic Party" "Republican
Party"]
--1895-1899
--1900-1901
--1902-1904
--Undated
--Sunday Times Herald (March 12, 1899)
--List of Registered Voters
OP Police Department
OP Politics Post-Incorporation
OP Pollution
OP Pools-Rehm and Ridgeland, etc.
OP Post Cards-[See Also Post Card Collection, Buildings Folders [by street],
Folders For Specific Bldg [e.g. Wright, F.L.,
Oak Park Home and Studio]
OP Post Office
OP Race Relations
OP Radio
OP Real Estate
OP Recycling
OP Religion-Misc. Prayer in Schools
OP Residence Corporation
OP River Oak Review/River Oak Arts
OP Sarah's Inn-[See Organizations File]
OP Schools-Elementary
--General
--Board of Education Elections
--History (1917 Board of Education report)
--Integration/Re-mapping
--Multicultural Resource/Culture/Ethnic Fest
--Rescheduling Controversy (1984 re-scheduling report)
--Superintendents
--Taxes and Funding
--Teachers Contracts/Strikes
Oak Park Elementary Schools
--Ascension
--Beye
--Bishop Quarter
--Bliss Music School
--Christian Academy
--Emerson
--Hatch
--Hawthorne (Julian)
--Holmes
--Independent
--Irving
--Julian
--Lincoln
--Loofburrow
--Longfellow
--Lowell
--Mann
--Montessori
--Oak Ridge
--St. Catherine's
--St. Edmund's
--St. Giles
--Whittier
OP High Schools
--Fenwick
--OPRF General Info and Programs
--Archives
--Arts
--"Class Days" Programs 1889-1936 (Incomplete)
--Clubs
--Commencement/Graduation Exercises 1878-1944 (Incomplete)1 of 2
--2 of 2 1981-1992 (Incomplete)
--Directories
--Directors and Faculty
--Discipline
--Elections and Referendums
--Faculty and Staff
--Gangs
--Honors and Awards
--Highlights
--History
--Library
--Literary Publications
--Music Department
--Newspaper Clippings
--Oak Ridge
--Pictures
--Plays and Oratory-Programs of Study
--Race Relations/[See "APPLE" Organizations File/Human Rights]
--Reunions
--Special Services Programs 1910-1943
--Sports
--Scoville Place
--Technology
--Testing
--Tickets to Graduation Exercises 1898-1904
OP Sculpture
OP Seal and Logo
OP Sewer System-[See Sheets]
OP Senior Citizens-[See Organizations "Senior Citizens Center"-Mills Tower and
Heritage House]
OP "Shelter"
OP Sidewalks
OP Signs
OP Sister City
OP Smoking Ban
OP Snow Removal
OP Sports
OP Streets-Sewers
OP Street Lighting (1970 op street lighting committee report)
OP Street Names and Numbers
OP Storms
OP Suburban Adult Center
OP Suffragettes
OP Ordinance-Sunday Closing
OP Survey
OP Synagogues
OP Tarzan Festival
OP Taste of Oak Park
OP Tapes
OP Tax Freeze
OP Taxes
OP Telephones
OP Television
OP Temperance Hall
OP Tenants Rights
OP Theatres and Productions
OP Tidmarsh-[See Academy of Movement and Music]
OP Tours
OP Tourism
OP Tourism Council-[See Organizations-"Community Tourism Council"]
OP Township
OP Transportation
--Bus line
--Rail road (1986 Chicago and Northwestern Transportation Co. Timetable)
--Highway and Streets
--Street Cars
--EL/Subway
OP Trees ("Ancient, historic, and unique trees of OP)
OP Triton College
OP Utilities
OP Undertakers, [See "Funeral Homes" (Burial Customs) in OP Businesses, by type]
OP Veterans
OP Viaducts
OP Village Government-Laws not already listed/Budget, Tax related, Fees Related,
Finance Related
OP Village Hall/Unions, Jobs, Newsletters
OP Village Time Capsule
OP Village Management Association (VMA)-[See Boxes in back closet]
OP Village Presidents
OP Village Views
OP Vision 2000
OP Visitors' Center/Bureau
OP War, Spanish American
OP Gulf War
OP Vietnam War
OP World War I
OP World War II (Ration books)
OP Warrington Opera House
OP Water
OP Willet Rehabilitation Center
OP Winters Award
OP Winter Festival
OP Women
OP Y2K [Year 2000]
OP Yaryan Heat
OP Yesteryear 2000
OP Youth
OP Zoning