New Web site

Our new web site has great new features and search capabilities. With this new tool, we can keep you up to date with Society news and events and provide educational stories about Winnetka’s history.

"Honest" Harold Ickes

Gazette Article by: Betsy Landes
Appeared in the Gazette: Fall 2003

What do Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Addams, the Skokie Lagoons, Marian Anderson, the Key West Highway, and Winnetka’s railroad tracks all have in common? Distinguished Winnetkan Harold LeClaire Ickes is the link.

Anita Willets Burnham

Gazette Article by: Robyn DeKoven Grossberg
Appeared in the Gazette: June 1999

“Doing what can’t be done is the glory of living.” With that gently defiant introduction, Anita Willets-Burnham sweeps her readers away on a whirlwind journey through the pages of her family’s travelogue in book form, Round the World on a Penny.