In November of 2004, by a vote of its Board of Directors, The Maxwell Street Historic Preservation Coalition became the Maxwell Street Foundation.
The Maxwell Street Foundation is dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and presenting the multicultural history of the old Maxwell Street Market and neighborhood in Chicago.
The predecessor organization to the Maxwell Street Foundation, the Maxwell Street Historic Preservation Coalition, was officially incorporated in 1997, but the movement to preserve the heritage of Chicago's Maxwell Street neighborhood goes back much further. You might say it goes back to the neighborhood's birth more than 150 years ago. Maxwell Street has always had to fight for its life.
In 1994, when the University of Illinois at Chicago and the City of Chicago teamed up to move the market and begin the neighborhood's final destruction, there were many pockets of resistance. A coalition formed consisting of property owners, neighborhood businesses, street vendors, residents, blues musicians and fans, and historic preservationists. That group was formalized in 1997 as the Maxwell Street Historic Preservation Coalition. In 2004, with the destruction and redevelopment of the old neighborhood nearly complete, the group's mission had evolved to a point where a new name was needed and it became the Maxwell Street Foundation.
The mission of the Maxwell Street Foundation is to preserve the history of the Maxwell Street neighborhood for future generations. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation and contributions are tax deductible.
Maxwell Street Foundation Corporate Officers and Directors
Officers:
Lori Grove, President
Robert Packer, Vice President
Elliot Zashin, Treasurer
Laura Kamedulski, Recording Secretary
Janelle Walker, Programs Secretary
Directors: Charles Cowdery, Gene Mackevich, Alan Mammoser, Daniel Marmer, Peter Nicholas Pero, Seymour Persky, Norman Schwartz, Larry Strong, Alan Teller.
Maxwell Street Foundation Advisory Council Members.
Honorary Members: Ruth Abram, Ira Berkow, Studs Terkel.
Members: William Adelman, Marvin Altur, Steve Balkin, Judith Stefanovic-Christopoulos, Irving Cutler, Barry Dolins, Morris Fred, Ed Hirschland, Jack Jaffe, Alan Johnson, Larry Lund, Bonni McKeown, Vincent L. Michael, Phyllis Rabineau, Michael Spock, Martin C. Tangora, May Weber.
(Updated April 10, 2007)
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