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2021 Program Schedule
January 10 - No event.
February 14 - "History of Valentine's Day" by Sue Warner.

March 14 - "History and Mystery in the Graveyards" by Marlene Cook.
April 11 - "Rosies, Poodles, and Twiggy: Fashions from 1940s to '70s" by Rhiannon Cizon.

June 13 - "All About Butterflies" by Dolly Foster.
July 11 - "Father Time" by Fred Schrum
August 8 - "American Domestic Architecture--New American Visions"  by Mike Wolski.
September 12 - "The Dixie Highway in Illinois" by James Wright.  Annual Raffle.
October 3 - Victorian Afternoon Tea.
October 10 - "Pandemics, Epidemics, & other events" by Peg Kapustiak.
November 14 - "Fr. Jacques Marquette : The Calumet Area's First European Explorer and its first Christian Missionary" by Prof. Kenneth Schoon.  The Annual Meeting.
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There was no Heritage Day this year.
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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.

July 12 - no program.
August 9 - "Lost Hammond, Indiana" by Joseph S. Pete.
​Sept. 13 - "Remembering 125 years - Early Calumet City History" by Joseph Bigott. Raffle.
October 11 - "Victorian-Era Domestic Architectural Styles."
November 8 - "Calumet Beginnings: Early Regional History from the Ground Up" 
​by Prof. Kenneth Schoon.

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.

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 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.
Nov. 11 - "19th Century Swedish Settlements in the South Shore" by Prof. Ken Schoon.


​2017 Program Schedule
January 8 - Post Holiday Luncheon.
February 12 - 
Calumet Heritage Partnership by Jason Berry.

March 12 - "Former Rural Areas around Calumet City" by David Postma.
April 9 - "Pioneer Churches of the Calumet Area" by Prof. Kenneth Schoon.
June 11 - "Indian Boundary Line" by Peg Kapustiak.
​July 9 - "Show and Tell".
Aug. 13 - "A History of South Holland and the First Reformed Church of South Holland" by Rich Zimmerman.
September 9 - Calumet City Historical Autumn Dinner
at the EAT Restaurant, the old Woolworth Building.  Annual Raffle Drawing.
October 8 - "History of Munster, Indiana" by Prof. Kenneth Schoon.
​November 12 - "History of American Television" by Dr. Stephen Hofer.

2016 Program Schedule

January 10 - Post Holiday Luncheon.
February 14 - "African American Heritage" by C.H.P.
March 13 - "A Madrigal Feaste" by Marilyn Schultz.
April 10 - "Schrumville" by Fred Schrum.
May & June - no meeting.

July 10 - "History of the Patton Residence" by George Petrich.
August 14 - "Let's play Edwardian Jeopardy" by Mary Chamberlain.
​September 11 - "One Minute After Sunrise : The Story of the
1955 Standard Oil Refinery Explosion." by Whiting Historical Society.
October 9 - "West Hammond History" by Prof. Joseph Bigott.
November 13 - "Shifting Sands" by Prof. Kenneth Schoon.


2015 Program Schedule

January 11 - Post Holiday Luncheon
February 15 - "Show and Tell"
March 8 - "A History of St. John's Ev. Lutheran Church, Calumet City" by Marilyn Schultz.
April 19 - "Globe Rendering Company, The Story of the 'Stink Factory' " by Dave Postma.

June 14 - "A Tour of Route 30 - aka The Lincoln Highway - in 30 Images" by Cynthia Ogorek.
July 12 - "Italians of the Calumet Region" by Tony Arduino.
August 9 - A Tour of the Historic 1892 Michel Residence.
September 13 - Heritage Day - Polish Fest - Log Cabin site.
October 11 - "Dreams of Duneland" by Prof. Kenneth Schoon.
November 8 - 40th Anniversary of CCHS - w/cake and coffee

Sample Past Newsletter

May-July 2019
Feb. 2022 Program Flyer
March 2022 Program Flyer
March-April 2022
Sept. 2022 Program Flyer
September-October 2023
October 2024 Program Flyer
September-October 2024
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