Hidden History of Ravenswood & Lake View

It's easyto get caught up in the hidden history of Ravenswood and Lake View, like theHarm’s Park picnic that lasted fifty-four years or the political gimmickry ofthe “Cowboy Mayor” of Chicago. Who can resist a double take over folk like the“Father of Ravenswood,” who kept Chicago from falling to the Confederacy, orthe “North Side’s Benedict Arnold,” who was sent to the electric chair duringWorld War II? If you want to visit the days when the Cubs were the Spuds ordebate whether Ravenswood is an actual neighborhood or just a state of mind, doit with longtime North Side journalist Patrick Butler in this curio shop offorgotten people and places.