The Mount Prospect Historical Society (MPHS), in cooperation with the Mount Prospect Public Library (MPPL), Mount Prospect Community Engagement Committee, the Mount Prospect Park District (MPPD) and River Trails Park District (RTPD) is collecting COVID-19 Pandemic memories from Mount Prospect residents, businesspeople and associates so that this unique time is never forgotten. The Society, Library and Village want to preserve a snapshot of what life was like specifically during this time in Mount Prospect.
Please share photos, videos, essays, impressions, drawings, handwritten notes, journal entries, poems, articles etc. Any local COVID-19 Pandemic related topic is welcome.
If you would prefer to submit a shorter response then please visit our Pandemic Reflections PADLET project.
Contributions:
All contributions must be available in digital format. Please use the following formats:
- jpg, png, pdf (maximum file size 10mb)
- External links to YouTube, Vimeo or other open web based publishing platforms accepted.
If you do not have a scanner, let us know and when restrictions are lifted, you may bring the document to the Society or Library to scan.
At the conclusion of the project, The Society will also consider adding physical works such as journals to the physical collection.
Step one: Contact information and permission
- Complete the contact release form
Click here to fill out the web-based contact release form
or Click here for the contact release form in pdf format that can be filled out electronically using Adobe Acrobat Reader
Step two: Upload or provide link (if available on web-based publishing platform)
- Upload contact release form and contribution to pan2020@mtphist.org