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  Executive Director appointed
  

  Donating artifacts to the WHS Museum Collection

  by Siera H. Erazo WHS is actively collecting objects, costumes (clothing), personal papers, corporate archives, original photographs, original blueprints, and ...

  

  Meet Allen Menke

  By Sally Schneiders Heads turned toward us as we made our way to a table at the Bluestone Restaurant one ...

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  WHS Gala: “Big Noise” on a Quiet Street

  By Laurie Petersen The theme of this year’s Winnetka Historical Society’s gala is “Big Noise from Winnetka,” inspired by the ...

  

  Centennial Park: Settlers, Sanitarium and Open Space

  By Susan Whitcomb The earliest people to walk the land we now know as Centennial Park were Native Americans who ...

  

  In Memoriam: David James, 1923-2016

  Being the first African-American to buy a house in Winnetka was just one of many milestones in the eventful life ...

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  Winnetka’s Spiegel Family: Installment Credit Pioneers

  By Tane Beecham For more than four decades, 410 Sheridan Road was home to the Spiegels, founding family of the ...