Welcome to the Calumet City Historical Society website!
The Society would like to encourage everyone interested in Calumet City and local Calumet area history to become members and actively become involved in its goals.

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Upcoming Events / Membership Form

Membership Form

Special Fundraiser Event
Victorian High Tea
Special Fundraiser Event in an 1890s Victorian setting!
Sunday, April 26 ~ 3:00 p.m.
Limited Seating to first 30 guests.  Paid Reservations are Required.
$20 per person.  Drop off with names or mail (see bottom of page).
Your Paid Ticket with special location will be mailed.

Next Meeting & Program
Calumet Beginnings, Local History from the Ground Up
By Prof. Kenneth School
Sun., June 14, 2020 - 2:00 p.m. / Program - 3:00 p.m.
Program features early area origins, and also, several historical flags.
Calumet City Historical Society Center, 760 Wentworth Ave.
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Support us with our Membership Drive for 2020!

General Membership Meetings & Programs
Meeting at 2:00 p.m. - followed by refreshments - Program at 3:00 p.m.
Open to the public - Second Sundays -​ 760 Wentworth Avenue

Email / Call / CCHS Center
calcityhistory@aol.com / 708-832-9390 or 773-814-4520 / 760 Wentworth Ave.
​Donations accepted.

2020 Program Schedule
January 12 - Post Holiday Luncheon.
February 9 - Show and Tell.
March 8 - "Calumet City's own Tim Bales talks about playing trumpet with The Ides of March Rock Band."
April 12 - Easter Sunday - No meeting.
April 26 - Victorian High Tea event!
May - Mother's Day - No meeting/program.
June 14 - "Calumet Beginnings, Local History from the Ground Up"
​by Prof. Kenneth Schoon; and Flag Day.
July 12 - "All About Butterflies" by Dolly Foster.
August 9 - "Lost Hammond, Indiana" by Joseph S. Pete.
​September 13 - Heritage Day Americana - log cabin site.


2019 Program Schedule
January 13 - Post Holiday Luncheon.
February 10 - Show and Tell.
March 10 - "History of Homewood" by Jim Wright.
April 14 - "Let the Dead Speak: Cemeteries and Symbols -
Holy Cross Cemetery" by Rhiannon Cizon.
June 9 - "Saint Victor Church" - Presentation & Tour -
Plus a special St. Victor Pentecost Concert!
July 14 - "Folk and Frontier Houses" by Mike Wolski.
August 11 - "Calumet City Forest Preserves" by Stephen DeFalco.
​September 8 - Heritage Day Americana - log cabin site.
October 13 - South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society & Library
​by Patty Higgins.
November 10 - "Ghost Story on Ruth Street" by Chris Roth.


2018 Program Schedule
January 14 - Post Holiday Luncheon.
February 11 - "Fashion from 1900 to 1930" by Rhiannon Cizon.
March 11 - "The Underground Railroad in the Calumet Region"
by Tom Shepherd.
April 8 - Show and Tell.
June 10 - "125th Anniversary of St. Andrew the Apostle parish"
presentation and guided tour ​by Sue Warner.
July 8 - Pictorial from the SouthtownStar Calumet City collection 1990s.
August 12 - "The Golden Age of the Circus : How the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train Wreck of 1918 in Hammond Affected the Entertainment World" by showman Al Slaggert.
September 9 - Heritage Day Americana - log cabin site - 12:00-4:00 p.m.
October 14 - "Why Did My Ancestory Eat Those Kinds of Foods?" 
by Peg Kapustiak.
November 11 - "19th Century Swedish Settlements in the South Shore" presentation and new book by Prof. Kenneth Schoon.

Schrum Heritage Log Cabin - ca. 1836

Originally the Saint Andrew Rectory, b. 1892, being moved a block away to be saved as a private residence today.

Schrum Pickle Works. Formerly near Wentworth Avenue & River Oaks Drive (formerly Schrum Rd.). Closed ca. 1982.

"Italians of the Calumet Region." Photo courtesy of Tony Arduino.

West Hammond Trust & Savings Bank on State Street, b. 1919. Survived until the Great Depression. It was a night club until 1995.

Saint Victor School on Price Avenue, b. 1926. It opened with 340 pupils and was staffed by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. Closed 2004. Razed 2019.

Russell's Subdivion was platted in the 1880s before incorporated into the Village of West Hammond in 1893.

CCHS Museum Center Location:  760 Wentworth Avenue, Calumet City, IL 60409
January Hours:  Thursdays 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
February Hours:  Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. & 2nd Sunday 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. 
March Hours:  Thursdays 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. & 2nd Sunday 1:00 - 4:30 p.m.
(708) 832-9390 or (773) 814-4520
Mail:  P.O. Box 1917,  Calumet City, IL 60409

calcityhistory@aol.com