Ellen Shubart
About
A lifelong Chicagoan, Ellen Shubart has worked as a teacher, a journalist, and ended her career as a sustainable city planning advocate. A historian by training, with masters degrees in US history and historic preservation, she has written three books for Reedy Press: What’s With Chicago?, Chicago: An Illustrated Timeline, and Secret North Shore–Chicago. In retirement, she is a volunteer docent at the Chicago Architecture Center, leading walking, bus, and river cruise tours.
Press
Why didn’t I know that? North Shore version – Evanston Round Table
Eighty-four sights, 170 photos, 91 sources painstakingly organized in the back by chapter, and a 402-item index covering 169 pages of text and photos come together in a new book: Secret North Shore-Chicago: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and
Latest news from Evanston: Your Wednesday daily digest – Evanston Round Table
Book review: With her husband, Richard, as photographer, local writer Ellen Shubart visited every site, and sight (including the Baha’i temple, above), in her new book Secret North Shore-Chicago: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure.
The Arts Section 02/04/24: North Shore Secrets, Grammy’s + Chess In Concert – The Arts Section, WDCB
On this edition of The Arts Section, host Gary Zidek talks to the author of a new book that explores Chicago’s North Shore.
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