West Side Council of Parents and Teachers Records

Dates: 1923-1950 (Bulk dates, 1940-1949). Size: 3.5 linear feet in 6 boxes including 8 photographs. Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections, Neighborhood History Research Collection. The West Side Council of Parents and Teachers formed on April 4, 1923, as an umbrella group to support PTA units in individual elementary schools on Chicago’s West Side. This collection documents the West Side Council from its beginning in 1923 up through its division into West Side Council North and West Side Council South in 1949. [Finding aid]