Media Surrounding 2026 Stems & Steins
Block Club Chicago. It got attention to the need for fundraising, though, the wrecking ball is not yet coming.
Fox 32 September 21. Got needed donations to preserve the Noble-Seymour-Crippen House, perhaps overstating the risk a bit.
NBC 5 September 23. Well edited. Tells the story with perspective.
WCPT Radio 720 September 26. Local Progressive Talk Radio. Full interview. Press arrow below to play.
Chicago Magazine’s In the Neighborhood section features our writer and historian Stan “Tex” Banash as he recommends these four Norwood Park spots. Here’s the article as it appears in the Magazine.
NBC Chicago and Taft High School recall Grease and its author Jim Jacobs from Norwood Park.
CBS WBBM TV “For the Love of Chicago: Norwood Park“ with Tom Barnas and Harris Miller, President, NPHS, November 2025
WGN Daytime Chicago Featuring The Norwood Park Historical Society June 17, 2024, with Judith McIntyre, late NPHS President, Art Krumrey, Tonya Francisco, and Amy Rutledge
WBEZ Radio in July 2025, specifically exploring Chicago’s oldest house, in two episodes:
- EPISODE ONE -Dennis Rodkin, senior reporter covering residential real estate for Crain’s Chicago Business, and WBEZ’s Sasha-Ann Simons visit to the NSCH. https://www.wbez.org/architecture/2025/07/28/whats-that-building-noble-crippen-seymour-house
- EPISODE TWO Given the Clark Ford House’s closure, back in the WBEZ studios with Art Krumrey, then NPHS President, and the grandson of Sr. Rev Ford. https://www.wbez.org/history/2025/08/11/whats-that-building-the-clarke-ford-house
WGN Around Town Featuring the NPHS Diamonds and Lace Exhibit with WGN’s Ana Belaval, on May 8, 2024
WTTW’s Geoffrey Baer acknowledges Chicago’s oldest House in Chicago By L’ It’s a brief reference, but his ascribing the Noble-Seymour-Crippen House is clear. Fall, 2020. See more about Chicago by L here.