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Return with us now to the glory and celebrity of Chicago’s Edgewater Beach Hotel

Aug. 4, 2021, 8 a.m.

(Chicago Tribune) "Remembering Edgewater Beach Hotel" is a new book by John Holden and Kathryn Gemperle about a North Side resort that was a mecca for big band music, holiday weekends and all the celebrities of the day including Marilyn Monroe, Sinatra, Judy Garland, Chaplin and U.S. presidents. It was the site of the shooting of a ballplayer depicted in “The Natural.” Then it was demolished.

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