CHICAGO COMMONS
Grand Avenue & Morgan Sts.,
Chicago, Ill.
Summer house, Camp Commons at Elgin.
Established 1894,
To provide a center for a higher civic and so cial life, to
initiate and maintain religious, educational and philanthropic
and to investigate and improve conditions in the
enterprises,
industrial districts of Chicago."
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"The intellectual, manual, recreative, civic, ethical and re-
ligicus werk with the multitude of small groups, centering at and
managed by the house, indoors, on playground, in park, museum and
Fer outside
"Camp Commons," by no means measures its influence.
neigh borhood
Own cr
organizations using its facilities in their
as effective as any thing attempted by the residents.
interestS are
The gymnasium is at the daily disposal of the neigh boring Monte-
fiore public school, whose building is pitifully inadequate for
Alumni asso cia-
the neediest childr en to be fcund in the city.
tions of three public schools regularly meet here, as does the
"Sisters School Club of St. Stephens's Roman Catholic parish."
