A Governors State University initiative hopes to gage the state of local historical groups while offering them resources to preserve the stories of Chicago’s south suburbs.
The Crete Area Historical Society recently purchased the 1853 Congregational Church, which had been for decades an antiques store. The group plans to turn the building into a history museum. Candeloro and fellow Chicago Heights historian Barbara Paul had published two books preserving stories and photos from the city’s past.
Like the Daily Calumet and the Harvey Tribune before it, the Star was absorbed in the 2000s by the Daily Southtown. Its nameplate still appears every Sunday on the Southtown’s CommunityStar page, but the Star’s tenure of blanket coverage twice-weekly of the stories of Chicago Heights ended long ago. It’s a reboot of a loose-knit collaboration that began in late 2018 when historians from several south suburban societies wanted to tackle the future of local history.
“There are a lot of amazing historical organizations around us, and then there are a lot of majority minority villages that don’t have these types of historical organizations,” VanGorder said. “We identified that as a gap in historical preservation and collection, and wanted to start thinking about ways we can allow folks to tell those stories, to begin collecting those items and curating some level of preservation at the university for those areas.
“We have a newer demographic moving into the south suburbs, and this isn’t their history. Do they care? Because they have their own history they’re bringing with them,” Adams said. “It’s a balancing act. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.”
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