A great community leader and treasure of Edgewater, Ed Marciniak, died May 27, 2004 at St. Joseph Hospital. Ed was married to Virginia Volini Marciniak who pre-deceased him. They had lived in Lakewood Balmoral for many years and raised their family of four daughters, Francesca, Kate, Christina and Claudia there. In later years they lived at the Edgewater Beach Apartments.

In Edgewater, Ed was most well known as the author of a book about Edgewater called Reversing Urban Decline: the Winthrop-Kenmore Corridor in the Edgewater and Uptown Communities of Chicago. In it he told the story of how our community worked together to improve the quality of life for everyone. It was second in a series of three books – Reviving the Inner City Community: the Drama of Urban Change in Chicago’s East Humboldt Park and the third book, Reclaiming the Inner City, Chicago’s Near North Revitalization Confronts Cabrini Green. Dr. Marciniak was Director of Loyola University’s Institute of Urban Life.
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