The Craft of a Berwyn Tailor by Elinor Schoback Lynch — My father, Louis Schoback, was proprietor of a tailoring business at 2144 South Clarence Avenue in Berwyn from 1927 through 1948. I was just a year old when he leased a store and started the business in a recently built two-story building at 22nd Street (Cermak Road) and Clarence Avenue, housing several stores, apartments and professional offi ces. It was a good location for a business – near the Douglas Park “L” line which ran from Oak Park Avenue, the end of the line, all the way to downtown Chicago… to read more download the PDF
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From the Workbench, 21st Antique and Collectible Sale, Berwyn’s Centennial Oral History Project, Update on World War I Memorial, BHS Membership and Donations, In Rememberance of 21st mayor Thomas Shaughnessy…
