Ask Geoffrey: Why Did Norwood Park Nix the Grid?
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Navigating the Norwood Park neighborhood can be gnarly. Geoffrey Baer is here to explain.
Navigating the Norwood Park neighborhood can be gnarly. Geoffrey Baer is here with all the twists and turns of this Northwest Side enclave’s history. He also tracks a statue’s journey from a library to a North Side park and illustrates the career of a celebrated expressionist painter and cartoonist whose work regularly appeared in the Chicago Tribune.
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Ask Geoffrey: Why Did Norwood Park Nix the Grid?
Clip: 2/8/2017 | 8m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
Navigating the Norwood Park neighborhood can be gnarly. Geoffrey Baer is here with all the twists and turns of this Northwest Side enclave’s history. He also tracks a statue’s journey from a library to a North Side park and illustrates the career of a celebrated expressionist painter and cartoonist whose work regularly appeared in the Chicago Tribune.
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