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Chicago's Only Castle

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The compelling stories of the five keepers of Chicago's only Castle, located in the Beverly neighborhood, unfold against the backdrop of Chicago's rich history.

Born in Chicago, Errol Magidson has loved Chicago's rich history, especially after seeing old photos of the city and its people at the Berghoff Restaurant many years ago and at the Chicago History Museum. When Errol visited the Beverly area of Chicago in 1977 to look for a place to live, he saw the Castle for the first time and knew that was the community in which to live and raise a family. Errol received his Doctorate in Education from Nova University, a Master of Arts in Teaching Social Science from Antioch Graduate School of Education, and a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Indiana University. He was Distinguished Professor of social science and psychology at the City Colleges of Chicago, and he also taught psychology courses at Roosevelt University and Saint Xavier University in Chicago. The students at Daley College, one of the City Colleges, gave him the Outstanding Teacher Award (1998). He gave an invited presentation on the first edition of "Chicago's Only Castle" at the Newberry Library (2017). He was interviewed about the book by journalist Rick Kogan on his "After Hours" program on WGN radio (2017). Errol produced, co-directed, narrated and wrote the script for the documentary on "Chicago's Only Castle" (2011) which was shown on PBS. He served as an archival researcher for "A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps" (2019). He gave workshops to college faculty on "Developing and Using Effective PowerPoint Presentations in the Classroom" and to school faculty on teaching their students how to use the computer to develop documentaries. Errol was guest editor of a special edition of Educational Technology devoted to "Trends in Computer-Assisted Instruction" (1978). He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Institute of African Studies at Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone, West Africa (1965-67). Errol lives with wife Nancy Magidson in Northbrook, Illinois. They both enjoy being with family and friends. They like to play golf, pickleball and bridge. Errol plays senior softball, too.