Early Streets
Article by Frank A. Windes
Winnetka Village Engineer
Before the building of concrete, macadam or brick roads, all Winnetka streets were earth roads with a layer of Lake or Gross Point bank gravel…
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=59 · Jan 18, 22:09
Winnetka: What's in a Name?
Gazette Article by: Steve Adams
Appeared in the Gazette: Fall/Winter 2006
A search of other U.S. communities named “Winnetka” results in Winnetka, Calif. and Winnetka Heights, Texas. That raises the question of how these towns were named and what, if any, connection they have to Winnetka, Ill..
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=218 · Jan 18, 20:12
"N" is for Neighborhood Circles
Gazette Article by: Chris Fullerton
Appeared in the Gazette: Fall 1998
When newcomers to the village first question the meaning of “the Winnetka Way,” the answer often concludes with “ . . . that’s just the way things are here.” Although it is difficult to describe, residents begin to understand how the phrase defines the community. So it is with neighborhood circles.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=182 · Dec 25, 11:05
"E" is for Elm Street
Gazette Article by: Jan Tubergen
Appeared in the Gazette: Summer 1996
Although Elm Street, running between Sheridan Road and Hibbard, may not be “Main Street”, it as been an important thoroughfare and the site of many special features of Winnetka life.
It all started in 1843, when John Happ…
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=173 · Dec 24, 16:51
Elm Street Then and Now
Gazette Article by: Bean Carroll
Appeared in the Gazette: Fall 2004
Much has changed in Winnetka over the past 100 years, as is revealed in these photographs of Elm Street, looking east from Chestnut. Notice the different street surfaces. Although macadam pavement of streets began in Winnetka in 1895, this c. 1904 photograph shows a mud street compared to the tree-lined paved street of 2004.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=160 · Dec 23, 17:01
The "Winnetka Heights" Neighborhood
Gazette Article by: Steve Adams and Cindy Fuller
Appeared in the Gazette: Spring 2005
…a December 1919 advertisement for 36 new lots in the Winnetka Heights subdivision, the area now bordered by Pine to the south and Westmoor to the north, between Locust and Rosewood. The ad boasts that “you can afford to forget building costs because the advance in land valuation will largely compensate for the present cost of construction.”
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=142 · Dec 22, 12:11
Village Green is Winnetka's Spiritual Center
Gazette Article by: Nan Greenough
Appeared in the Gazette: Summer 2004
…Winnetka’s first schoolhouse was built on the northwest corner near Elm and Maple in 1859 or that 10 years later, the entire park was donated to the Village by Sarah and Charles Peck. I could not have known that Laura Townsend Dickinson had described the Village Green in her book, The Story of Winnetka, as “a kind of spiritual center, a shrine, a meeting place for celebrations of the entire village.”
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=141 · Dec 22, 12:06
Winnetka Neighborhoods: Forest Glen
Gazette Article by: Nancy Elmer, Audrey Loewenthal and Penny Pirsein
Appeared in the Gazette: Fall 2004
Forest Glen is a unique community within the larger community of Winnetka. It includes 57 houses, all two-story, and almost all colonial in style. The entrances at Forest Glen East and West are defined by pillars, and the approximately 20 acres are located north of the intersection of Tower and Hibbard Roads.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=139 · Dec 22, 11:46
The Cradle of Winnetka
Gazette Article by: Joan Evanich
Appeared in the Gazette: Fall 2003
This neighborhood, near what is now Tower and Sheridan Roads, was the very first settlement in our Village. High on a ridge overlooking Lake Michigan, it is along what was once the Green Bay Trail, a government post road first surveyed in 1833.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/index.php?id=138 · Dec 22, 11:42