UA1993.24 Dept. of Government and Community Affairs Office of Community Programs Mary Margaret Langdon, Director, Records Dates: 1973-1993 Creator: Langdon, Mary Margaret (1918-1993) Extent: 14.5 linear feet Level of description: Folder Processor & date: Troy Henderson, Melissa Stewart, November 2001; updated by K. Young, November 2010 Administration Information Restrictions: Box 29 is restricted. Consult archivist for information. Copyright: Copyright in Loyola University Chicago records is owned by the University. Citation: Loyola University Chicago. Archives and Special Collections. Dept. of Government and Community Affairs. Office of Community Programs, Mary Margaret Langdon, Director, Records. Box #, Folder. Provenance: Transferred by the Dept. of Government and Community Affairs, August 9, 1993. Separations: None See Also: Administrative History Mary Margaret Langdon was born in Chicago, IL on June 16, 1918. She received her B.A. degree from Mundelein College in 1940 and did M.A. course work at Loyola University. She married the late John F. Langdon, former Vice President for Admissions, in 1944. In 1977 she became director of the Community Programs Office at Loyola University Chicago, a position she retained until her retirement in 1993. Megs Langdon was instrumental in organizing personal safety programs on the Lakeshore Campus and in charge of the Walk-to-Work Program. She worked on the Loyola Lakefill Project, which was eventually halted by court order in 1991, and active in the Rogers Park and Edgewater communities, which lead to her participation in several committees including the Chicago Crime Commission, St. Joseph Hospital Executive Advisory Committee, Loyola University Women s Board, Chicago Plan Commission, and Rogers Park Community Council. Langdon chaired several committees including the Steering Committee 24 th District Chicago Police Department, Loyola University Urban Concerns Committee, and Mundelein College Development Fund. Her work was recognized by the awards she received throughout her career including the Loyola University Founders Day Civic Award, Mundelein College Silver Jubilee Apostolic Award, 1985 Citizen of the Year (with her husband) from the Rogers Park Community Council, General Assembly Merit Award 1987 from the IL House of Representatives, and an honorary membership from St. Joseph Health Care Foundation. Office of Community Programs: Mary Margaret Langdon records Page 1
Scope and Content The Office of Community Programs, Mary Margaret Langdon, Director, records span the years 1973 through 1993 and include agendas, minutes, reports, correspondence, photographs, blueprints, audio cassette tapes, and video tapes. Arrangement is alphabetical. Subjects: Langdon, Mary Margaret Loyola University Chicago 24 th Police District Neighborhood relations Chicago Plan Commission City of Chicago Doyle Center Chicago Transit Authority Lakefill project Madonna Della Strada Minorities Rogers Park Edgewater Volini, Marion Office of Community Programs: Mary Margaret Langdon records Page 2
Accession No.: UA1993.24 Creator: Langdon, Mary Margaret (1918-1993) Box-Folder Title Dates 1-1 The Now and Future of Rogers Park Video Tape 1986 1-2 1000 Loyola Ave. Building 1979-1980 1-3 24 th Police District: Neighborhood Relations Puppet Show 1985-1986 1-4 24 th Police District: Steering Committee Workshops 1979-1980 1-5 24 th Police District: Steering Committee 1979-1981 1-6 24 th Police District: Steering Committee II 1979-1981 1-7 24 th Police District: Steering Committee 1982-1983 1-8 24 th Police District: Steering Committee II 1982-1983 2-1 24 th Police District: Steering Committee 1984-1985 2-2 24 th Police District: Steering Committee 1986-1987 2-3 24 th Police District: Steering Committee 1988-1989 2-4 24 th Police District: Steering Committee II 1988-1989 2-5 24 th Police District: Steering Committee 1990-1991 3-1 24 th Police District: Steering Committee 1992-1993 3-2 48 th Ward Women s Network 1990 3-3 5500 North Sheridan Road 1978 3-4 5500 North Sheridan Road 1978 3-5 6300 Block, Winthrop Ave. 1984-1985 3-6 Anti-bias Racial Committee 1988 3-7 Art Berman, State Senator 1979 3-8 Awards 1983-1991 3-9 Bankers Realty and Management 1980 3-10 Basic Documents, Chicago Police Department 1978-1979 3-11 Baumhart, Rev. Raymond C. 1978-1993 3-12 Berger Park 1985 3-13 Bigotry on Campus Conference 1989 3-14 Bus Tour Correspondence 1982 3-15 Bus Tour Photos 1979-82 4-1 Canal Corridor Committee: Proposal for 18 th St. canal 1984-1991 4-2 Chicago Plan Commission: Agendas 1977 4-3 Chicago Plan Commission: Agendas 1978 4-4 Chicago Plan Commission: Agendas 1979 4-5 Chicago Plan Commission: Agendas 1980 4-6 Chicago Plan Commission: Agendas 1981 4-7 Chicago Plan Commission: Agendas 1982 4-8 Chicago Plan Commission: Agendas 1983 4-9 Chicago Plan Commission: Agendas 1984 4-10 Chicago Plan Commission: Agendas 1985 4-11 Chicago Plan Commission: Agendas 1986 4-12 Chicago Plan Commission: Agendas 1987 4-13 Chicago Plan Commission: Agendas 1988 Office of Community Programs: Mary Margaret Langdon records Page 3
5-1 Chicago Plan Commission: Agendas 1989 5-2 Chicago Plan Commission: Agendas 1990 5-3 Chicago Plan Commission: Agendas 1991 5-4 Chicago Plan Commission: Application and Proposal for Lakefill 1988 5-5 Chicago Plan Commission: Basic Documents 1989-1992 5-6 Chicago Plan Commission: Beautification Committee 1984 5-7 Chicago Plan Commission: Boulevards 1989, 1993 6-1 Chicago Plan Commission: Chicago Heliport/Telistop Task Force 1985 6-2 Chicago Plan Commission: Children s Memorial 1990 6-3 Chicago Plan Commission: Clybourn 1988 6-4 Chicago Plan Commission: Correspondence 1978-1992 6-5 Chicago Plan Commission: Daycare Committee 1989-1991 6-6 Chicago Plan Commission: Downtown Corridor 1990 6-7 Chicago Plan Commission: Edgewater 1978-1990 6-8 Chicago Plan Commission: Elston Corridor 1990 7-1 Chicago Plan Commission: Franklin Point 1990 7-2 Chicago Plan Commission: Grant Park Shell 1977-1985 7-3 Chicago Plan Commission: Lake Front Policy Committee 1989 7-4 Chicago Plan Commission: La Salle Street Guidelines n.d. 7-5 Chicago Plan Commission: Lou Wolfe 1990 7-6 Chicago Plan Commission: Minutes 1989 7-7 Chicago Plan Commission: Minutes 1990-1991 7-8 Chicago Plan Commission: Projected Manufacturing District 1987 7-9 Chicago Plan Commission: River North 1980-1990 7-10 Chicago Plan Commission: Rogers Park 1978-1985 8-1 Chicago Plan Commission: Rules and Bylaws 1984 8-2 Chicago Plan Commission: Rules and Procedures Committee 1987-1989 8-3 Chicago Plan Commission: Satellite Dish Study 1984 8-4 Chicago Plan Commission: Significant Project Applications 1989 8-5 Chicago Plan Commission: South Loop 1983-1989 8-6 Chicago Plan Commission: South Shore Country Club 1978 8-7 Chicago Plan Commission: Special Ordinances 1986-1992 8-8 Chicago Plan Commission: St. Joseph Hospital Retirement Building 1979, 1986 8-9 Chicago Plan Commission: State Street 1987, 1989 8-10 Chicago Plan Commission: World s Fair 1977-1985 8-11 City of Chicago: City s New Comprehensive Plan 1981 8-12 City Wide Beat Representative Advisory Committee 1980-1982 9-1 City Wide Beat Representative Advisory Committee 1983-1992 9-2 Committees 1986-1992 9-3 Communications Committee 1983 9-4 Communications Committee 1984-1985 9-5 Community Assistance Panel on Sheridan Rd. 1988 9-6 Community Development 1979 9-7 Community Education Proposal Committee 1981 9-8 Community Investment Corp-Pat Nash 1982-1987 9-9 Community Trust Proposal 1982 9-10 Continental Bank Proposal 1980-1983 Office of Community Programs: Mary Margaret Langdon records Page 4
10-1 Continental IL Bank Reports and Application 1980-1984 10-2 Correspondence 1978 10-3 Correspondence 1979 10-4 Correspondence 1980 10-5 Correspondence 1981 10-6 Correspondence 1982 10-7 Correspondence 1983 10-8 Correspondence 1984 10-9 Correspondence 1985 10-10 Correspondence 1986 10-11 Correspondence 1987 10-12 Correspondence 1988 10-13 Correspondence 1989 10-14 Correspondence 1990 10-15 Correspondence 1991 10-16 Correspondence 1992 10-17 Correspondence 1993 11-1 Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) 1979 11-2 Cultural Conflicts 1989 11-3 Debbie Sobol 1984 11-4 Design Charettee, Lake Front Erosion 1987 11-5 Doyle Center Community Trust 1986-1993 11-6 Doyle Center 1986-1987 11-7 Doyle Center 1988-1989 11-8 Doyle Center 1990-1992 11-9 Doyle Center 1993 11-10 Doyle Center: Golden Jubilee 1990-1992 11-11 Dr. Sylverster Furmanek, DDS 1983 12-1 Edgewater-Uptown Consortium of Religious Institutions 1973-1975 12-2 Goals 1990 12-3 Graduate Housing, 6320 Kenmore 1982 12-4 Granada Center 1990-1991 12-5 Granada 1988 12-6 Granada 1988 12-7 Grandale Association 1981 12-8 Identity- Image Project Agency Proposals: Downey/Weeks/Toomey 1988 12-9 IL Association of School Boards 1977 12-10 IL Ethnic Consultation Anti-bias Meeting 1987-1989 12-11 IL Governor s Commission on mandated statutes in education 1978 12-12 IL Governor s Commission on mandated statutes in education: Belleville 1977 12-13 IL Governor s Commission on mandated statutes in education: Chicago 1977 13-1 IL Governor s Commission on mandated statutes in education: Elgiss 1977 13-2 IL Governor s Commission on mandated statutes in education: Marion 1977 13-3 IL Governor s Commission on mandated statutes in education: Moline 1977 13-4 IL Governor s Commission on mandated statutes in education: Peoria 1977 13-5 IL Governor s Commission on mandated statutes in education: Rockford 1977 13-6 IL Governor s Commission on mandated statutes in education: Springfield 1977 Office of Community Programs: Mary Margaret Langdon records Page 5
13-7 IL Office of Education 1974-1978 13-8 International College of Surgeons 1990-1991 13-9 Lake Front/Edgewater Zoning 1979-1981 13-10 Lake Front revetment 1991 13-11 Lake Front Task Force 1987-1990 14-1 Lake Front 1986-1988 14-2 Lake Front 1986-1988 14-3 Lakefill Project 1988 14-4 Lakefill Project: Sidley & Austin Law Firm 1988 14-5 Lakefill Reactions 1987-1989 14-6 Lakefill Reactions II 1987-1989 14-7 Lakefill Reactions III 1987-1989 14-8 Lakefill Reactions III 1988-1989 15-1 Landfill 1988 15-2 Landfill II 1988 15-3 Landfill III 1988 15-4 Landfill 1989 15-5 Letters Objecting to Subsidized Housing on Sheridan Rd., 1981 15-6 Loyola Community Law Center 1980-1981 15-7 Loyola Image Study 1990-1991 15-8 Loyola Pre-CANA Conference 1982 15-9 Loyola University Image Identity Miscellaneous 1988 15-10 Loyola University Image Identity Miscellaneous 1989 16-1 Loyola University Lakefill 1988 16-2 Loyola University Lakefill 1988 16-3 Loyola University Lakefill 1988 16-4 Loyola University Lakefill 1988 16-5 Loyola University Lakeshore Proposal Vol. I 1988 17-1 Loyola University Lakeshore Proposal Vol. II 1988 17-2 Loyola University Lakeshore Proposal open meetings 1988 17-3 Loyola University Long Range Plan: Background Info 1985-1986 17-4 Madonna Della Strada Advisory Committee 1983-1984 17-5 Madonna Della Strada Advisory Committee 1985 17-6 Madonna Della Strada Advisory Committee II 1985 17-7 Madonna Della Strada Advisory Committee 1986 17-8 Madonna Della Strada Advisory Committee 1987 18-1 Madonna Della Strada Advisory Committee 1988-1989 18-2 Madonna Della Strada Advisory Committee 1990-1991 18-3 Madonna Della Strada Advisory Committee 1992 18-4 Madonna Della Strada Baptismal Sub-Committee 1985-1989 18-5 Madonna Della Strada Study 1984 18-6 Madonna Della Strada Study II 1984 18-7 Madonna Della Strada: Background Material 1985-1987 18-8 Marina City 1990 18-9 Minorities 1989 18-10 Names- mailing lists- management attendees Loyola Landfill 1988 18-11 Names Quilt Committee AIDS 1991-1993 Office of Community Programs: Mary Margaret Langdon records Page 6
19-1 Neighborhood Revitalization and Religious Institutions, Flatbush 1978 19-2 New Residence Life Building 1989-1991 19-3 North Central Association 1985 19-4 Operation Winthrop-Kenmore 1981-1985 19-5 Parking on Loyola Ave. 1981 19-6 Paul Brant, S.J. 1978-1980 19-7 Personal Safety Committee 1992-1993 19-8 Personal Safety Programs 1990-1991 19-9 Planning-Thompson Dyke and Associates 1986 19-10 Police Correspondence 1980-1987 20-1 Preservation News 1982-1985 20-2 Project Renewal 1989 20-3 Publication: Chicago Urban Transportation District, Annual Report 1981 20-4 Chicago Water System 1973 20-5 Publication: Chicago: A City at the Financial Crossroads 1986 20-6 Publication: Chicago: City in Search of a Personality 20-7 Publication: City of Chicago: Department of Personnel, Bicentennial Report 1987 20-8 Publication: Planning for Downtown Chicago, The North Loop Project 1981 20-9 Publication: Zoning Analysis of 926 North Branch Street 1987 20-10 Rape Intervention 1980 20-11 Redemptorist Fathers Building Search 1985 20-12 Reference Material: Mary Margaret Langdon 1986-1988 20-13 Richard Daley 1990-1991 20-14 Riparian Rights n.d. 20-15 Rogers Park Planning Conference Summary Reports 1986 20-16 Rogers Park Planning Conference Summary Reports II 1986 21-1 Rogers Park Planning Conference Task Force 1986 21-2 Rogers Park Planning Conference 1986 21-3 Rogers Park Planning Conference II 1986 21-4 Rogers Park Planning Conference: Invitees and Participants 1986 21-5 Safer Foundation 1983 21-6 Scattered Sites Housing 1989 21-7 Seminar on Encyclical Letter: On Human Works, 1983 21-8 Senior Citizens Hall of Fame 1983-1987 21-9 Senior Citizens Hall of Fame 1988-1990 22-1 Senior Citizens Hall of Fame 1991-1992 22-2 Sexual Harassment Workshop 1986 22-3 Sheldon Good Auctions 1987 22-4 Sheridan Corners Task Force 1990 22-5 Sheridan Rd. Condo Register 1979 22-6 Shoreline Protection 1987 22-7 Shoreline Protection 1989 22-8 Space Planning Committee 1985 22-9 Space Planning Committee, Basic Documentation 1986 22-10 Space Planning Committee 1986 Office of Community Programs: Mary Margaret Langdon records Page 7
22-11 Space Planning Committee 1986 23-1 Space Planning Committee 1986 23-2 Space Planning Committee 1987 23-3 Space Planning Committee Jan-May 1987 23-4 Space Planning Committee 1988 23-5 Space Planning Committee 1989 23-6 Space Planning Committee 1990 23-7 Space Planning Committee II 1990 24-1 Space Planning Committee 1991 24-2 Space Planning Committee 1992 24-3 Speech Material 1977-1987 24-4 Speech Material 1978-1979 24-5 Speech to Dean s Office Personnel 1985-1986 24-6 Student Survey Data 1987 24-7 Subsidized Housing- Warren Study 1980 24-8 Subsidized Housing 1981 24-9 Talman home Federal Savings and Loan Assoc. of IL 1985 24-10 Taxes 1981 24-11 Teilhard Foundation 1981 25-1 Telecommunications 1982-1984 25-2 United Nations Association-USA 1989 25-3 Urban Concerns 1984 25-4 Urban Concerns Committee 1978-1980 25-5 Urban Concerns Committee 1981-1983 25-6 Urban Concerns Committee 1984-1985 25-7 Urban Concerns Committee 1986-1988 25-8 Urban Concerns Committee 1989-1991 25-9 Urban Follies Film and script 1981 26-1 Urban Programs ca. 1980s 26-2 Video Games 1982-1983 26-3 Video Games 1982-1983 26-4 VIP Program 1978 26-5 VIP Program 1979 26-6 Volini, Marion 1978-1991 26-7 Volini, Marion 1978-1991 26-8 Walk Home 1987 26-9 Winthrop-Kenmore Strategy; Pines of Edgewater 1982-1983 27-1 Winthrop-Kenmore Study 1979-1980 27-2 Winthrop-Kenmore Update 1984-1986 27-3 Wolf, Lou 1992 27-4 Women 1980-1993 27-5 Women 1985-1993 27-6 Women s Center 1980 27-7 Worlds Fair 1992 27-8 YMCA: High Ridge Center 1981 28-1 Chicago Planning Commission: Chicago Dock-Equitable Venture 1985 28-2 Chicago Planning Commission: Court Case 1978-1979 Office of Community Programs: Mary Margaret Langdon records Page 8
28-3 Chicago Planning Commission: North Loop 1981-1991 28-4 Chicago Planning Commission: River North 1984-1988 28-5 Chicago Shoreline Protection Commission 1988 28-6 City of Chicago: Department of Planning 1978-1984 28-7 Sheldon Good Auctions 1980 Restricted 29-1 Legal Documents ca. 1970-1990 29-2 Lake Front Revetment 1991 29-3 Operation Winthrop-Kenmore 1981-1985 Office of Community Programs: Mary Margaret Langdon records Page 9