The Drexel Home For The Jewish Aged
6140 S. Drexel Blvd, Chicago

- Name Index -

Following the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, German-speaking Jews began moving from downtown to the Near South Side. They later moved further south to the Grand Boulevard, Washington Park, and Kenwood-Hyde Park areas. They built facilities to care for the sick (Michael Reese Hospital), orphaned (Chicago Home for Jewish Orphans), and aged (Drexel Home).
Source: Spertus.edu

The Drexel Book contains admissions from 1894-1943. Drexel opened in 1893 and closed in 1981. The original building was demolished in 1959.

The book is all handwritten and has 2 sections. The front in an index by letter of the alphabet.
They simply added residents by the letter of their last name as they were admitted. The back section (about 350 pages) has intake biographies of 750 residents. They are basically in the order they were admitted and they have extensive genealogical info which typically included: when and where born, when came to US, when came to Chicago, occupation, date died, where buried; some have other additional information.

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