4 thoughts on “Marcy Center”

  1. I remember a small fish pond and garden. I think you could enter it through the chapel. I have wonderful memories of day camp…getting on a bus and going to adventures: A dairy, can’t remember the name, Cermak Pool, Brookfield Zoo and the Trailside Museum. Arts and crafts in the first floor activity rooms and the monkey bars. I remember Ms. Norbus…I’m sure I’m misspelling her name…she was sweet. Any other day campers out there? Thanks for the info, Larry.

  2. I spend most of my childhood in and around there, played in the old sandbox. I lived at 1561 Springfield, in the old courtway building on the corner of 16th St. until 1971.

  3. I went to Marcy Center from age 3 to 11. I lived at 1555 Springfield. Daycare, Monkey bars, jumping robe, square’s/boxes, field trips, hop scotch, swings, sandbox, dances, tudors, the big field where I learned to play softball and the dentist. I attended William Penn until 1967. I believe that when Martin Luther King came to Chicago he stayed on Springfield. My mother told me not to go down the street because it was going to be trouble. So, I went. I was in a tree.

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