Dr. Dennis Cremin to be featured speaker at 16th Annual Conference on Illinois History
Published: September 24, 2014.
Chicago抯 Grant Park history will take center stage at the 16th Annual Conference on Illinois History Sept. 25 at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield. Dr. Dennis Cremin, 海角社区 professor of and director of the , will be the featured speaker.
His award-winning book, 揋rant Park: The Evolution of Chicago抯 Front Yard,� shares how the evolution of Grant Park was a gradual process, at first fraught with a lack of funding and organization, and later challenged by erosion, the railroads, automobiles, and a continued battle between original intent and conceptions of progress. Throughout the book, Cremin shows that the parkland continues to serve "as a display case for the city and a calling card to visitors."
The annual event is a two-day conference, which features both panel presentations and teacher workshops on almost any topic related to Illinois history, culture, politics, geography, literature and archaeology. Presenters and attendees range from professional historians and graduate students to museum and historic site professionals, librarians, and archivists, as well as the general public.
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