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NEXT MEETING: The next bi-monthly meeting of the Calumet Heritage
Partnership will be held Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 7:00 p.m in the
Suzanne G. Long Local History Room of the Hammond Public Library, 564
State Street, Hammond, Indiana. Recall that at its December meeting,
the CHP board voted to meet every other month in 2009. Future meetings
this year will be held May 21 (Hegewisch), July 16 (Hammond), September
17 (Hegewisch), and December 3 (Hammond).
NEW BOARD MEMBERS: We welcome Kate Corcoran, Bob Meyer, and Cynthia
Ogorek to the Board of Directors in 2009. Kate has been a key participant
in the effort to retrieve documents and artifacts from the Acme Coke
Plant site; many documents have now been scanned and placed online as
a result. Bob is passionate about the preservation of steel industry
history, and has led the effort to get a steel museum off the ground
in northwest Indiana. Cynthia is a historian and author of books on
the Calumet River and US 30 in the Chicagoland Region and led an excellent
tour of that road at our 2008 annual conference. These three join continuing
board members Mark Bouman (President), Steve McShane (Vice-President),
Bill Peterman (Vice-President), David Klein (Treasurer), Marian Byrnes
(Corresponding Secretary), Bob Bionaz, Bob Kelliher, Mike Longan, Rich
Lytle, Sherry Meyer, Rod Sellers, and Tom Shepherd.
COKE PLANT MODEL SALVAGED!: We are very excited to report that
a very large scale model was salvaged from the shuttered LTV South Chicago
Coke plant. The model was donated to CHP by Simon Beemsterboer and was
moved by Dennis Schrage of US Machinery Movers in February. Severely
cold weather hampered efforts to move the model, but Dennis stuck with
it, and the model now joins other industry artifacts under the protective
roof of the Pullman Administration Building.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Save October 10, 2009 at Chicago State University
for this year's Calumet Heritage Conference. Planning has begun for
the conference, which will reflect on the theme of the legacy of the
century-old Plan of Chicago in the Calumet region. For more on the Burnham
Plan Centennial, check out http://burnhamplan100.uchicago.edu/.
CHICAGO WILDERNESS MAGAZINE: The Spring, 2009 issue of Chicago
Wilderness magazine, featuring the people and places of the Calumet
region, is ready to hit the newsstands. This issue includes a three-page
foldout map section of the region from Blue Island to Michigan City.
Chicago Wilderness is an award-winning publication noted for excellent
writing and photography, timely features, and outstanding design, and
this special issue, developed in partnership with the Gaylord and Dorothy
Donnelley Foundation, is likely to be a "keeper".
HAPPY TRAILS: Congratulations to the many partners and stakeholders
of the Friends of the Cal-Sag Trail, who are working to get this vitally
important regional trail open by 2012, and who have rolled out the wonderful
web site, www.calsagtrail.org. The trail would run from the Illinois
and Michigan Canal Corridor in Lemont to near the Indiana border, where
it would link to the Burnham Greenway, and to Indiana trails mapped
at www.indianatrails.org/NWI_area.htm.
10TH WARD GREEN SUMMIT: The second annual tenth ward Green Summit
is scheduled for May 9, 2009 in South Chicago. The event offers local
residents information on green, eco-friendly and healthy initiatives
designed to enhance the community's quality of life and promote economic
development. What does this have to do with "Calumet heritage"?
It presents one vision of what the next phase of the history of the
region will be, one that builds on a healthy respect for what previous
generations have built.
NEWS?: If you or your organization have items that you'd like
to post in this newsletter, just email the editor, Mark Bouman, at mbouman@csu.edu.
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