University Plans To Demolish Ronald Reagan’s Chicago Apartment
December 27, 2012
Former U.S. president Ronald Reagan spent much of his life in California, but residents in the Midwestern state of Illinois note proudly that he was born and raised there. He spent a brief period of his childhood in Hyde Park, on the South Side of Chicago, which is also President Barack Obama’s old neighborhood. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, a debate is under way about the historic importance of Reagan’s old home, which faces the wrecking ball to make way for an expansion of the University of Chicago’s medical campus.
It is a non-descript building in a south Chicago neighborhood. But for some local residents, 832 East 57th Street, in Hyde Park, is anything but ordinary.
Ronald Reagan lived here before he was president.
“President Reagan fondly recalled living there. // He spoke about the gaslit streets and borrowing (toy) soldiers from his neighbor. So he had these fond memories of being there,” said Susan Davis, who lives in Hyde Park. She wrote a book on the neighborhood's historic structures and says most people don't know that Reagan lived here in 1915.
“It actually wasn’t discovered that he did live here until the ‘80s,” she said.
Which is partly why the home was ignored. That is until the University of Chicago purchased the property with plans to tear it down to make way for an expanding medical campus.
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