Victoria Ann Granacki

Victoria Ann Granacki is passionate about collecting and preserving old documents, odd artifacts, weird art, and vintage buildings. In her historic preservation career, she wrote scores of landmark nominations and community histories highlighting Illinois’s architectural legacy.  She is the author of An Artist Goes to War: Leon Granacki in the South Pacific WWII from Archway Publishing and Chicago’s Polish Downtown from Arcadia Publishing. 

Granacki has rehabbed four historic buildings in Chicago, and in retirement, she chronicles family history. Granacki has been named a finalist for the Chicago Writers Association 2024 Book of the Year Awards in the Indie Non-fiction category. For more on Granacki’s books and writing, visit: https://www.GranackiArts.com.