Elgin History Museum GALA with Martina Mathisen presenting Chicago in the Roaring 20’s.

Enjoy dinner, drinks and entertainment all while supporting the Museum. Martina Mathisen will present Chicago True Stories of the 1920s.
The 1920s are saturated with surprise, sequins, and murder! A fun and funny flapper named Flora tells us how fashion, crime, and prohibition mixed with explosive creativity shaped the decade of the century.

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Putting Sears Homes on the Map - The Mail Order House Phenomenon 1906-82

Gail Borden Public Library (map)

Sears Roebuck is the best known of all the companies that sold mail order homes. Learn the history of mail order home marketing and view images of homes from the eight major producers of these homes.

General merchandise mail order catalogs were established in the late 1890’s - Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck were among the first - offering a wide variety of goods to the rural market. House plan books appeared at about the same time. In 1906 a combination of these two marketing techniques first came on the scene - mail order houses.

Author, researcher and lecturer Rebecca Hunter will be presenting.

Please register here: https://attend.gailborden.info/event/9251513

Brown Bag Lunch: Laura Davidson Sears Art Gallery at the Elgin Academy – 100 Years with Ann Chipman

Sears Gallery (map)

Learn about the historical and cultural significance of this beautiful and important building to celebrate its 100th anniversary.

In person event / FREE for Members / $5 for guests
Contact/RSVP: Elgin History Museum, 847-610-0993; Please Register: https://elginhistory.org/event/brown-bag-lunch-laura-davidson-sears-art-gallery-at-the-elgin-academy-100-years-with-ann-chipman/
Location: Laura Davidson Sears Art Gallery, 200 Academy Place
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m