More ABCs of Evanston

More ABCs of Evanston (2014) is the most recent addition to the Lighthouse Series of Evanston History. With 26 new stories, it covers Evanston's past from A to Z, from our only AIRPORT, Eadie Field in the 1950s, to the ZIMMERMANS, who lived in a residential subdivision smack dab in the middle of the Northwestern University campus for more than 60 years. 

Read More ABCs and discover:

• what Nobel Prize winner penned a #1 pop song.

• how three local women created radio's first soap opera.

• when drinking city water was like drinking an epidemic.

Its stories go back to 1787 with the Ordinance of the Northwest Territory and reach into the 1990s with the city's longest serving mayor. Then again the story of Lemoi Hardware itself spans more than 100 years. So do the two stories about building the sanitary canal along Evanston's west side. 

More ABCs is full of good stories, from Evanston's early telephones and kitchen co-operatives to high-end sports cars and quonset huts.

For more information about More ABCs — and its sister books, The Streets of Evanston (2009) and ABCs of Evanston (2011) — and about where to buy all three books, please see PurpleLinePress.com.