Recent Articles from the Gazette

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  Winnetkans Show Support for Wiping Out Systemic Racism

  Originally appeared in the Fall 2020 Gazette, by Holly Marihugh Last June 6th on the Village Green in Winnetka, the ...

  

  Over There: Winnetkans Serving in WWII and Supporting the War Effort at Home

  Originally appeared in the Fall 2020 Gazette, by Charles Shabica When Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, war to an American ...

  

  Winnetkans Wade through the Record-Breaking Surprise Snow Storm of 1967

  Originally appeared in the Fall 2020 Gazette by Helen Weaver “A city accustomed to snowstorms succumbed to one today,” was ...

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  Back in the Day: Penny and Don Trieschmann: Won’t You Be Our Neighbor?

  Originally appeared in The Winnetka Current, March 30, 2020 By Holly Marihugh, Contributing Columnist It’s hard to overstate the type ...

  

  “Winnetka Futures 2040” Will Unveil on the Centennial of First Village Plan

  By Holly Marihugh, April 3, 2020 In 1921, Winnetka pushed forward a progressive engine of change in comprehensive village planning. ...

  

  Curator’s Corner: The Early Days of the North Shore Health Resort (1900s-1930s)

  Appeared in the Gazette, Spring/Summer 2020 by Rachel Ramirez “Come and Get Well,” calls a 1918 advertisement for the North ...

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  Peter Butler, WHS Board President Using History to Make Connections

  Appeared in the Gazette, Spring/Summer 2020 Spring is in the air. Maybe. If you live in Winnetka near the lake, ...

  

  Deep Family Roots in Winnetka Inspire Service to Country and Community

  Appeared in the Gazette, Spring/Summer 2020 by Holly Marihugh Piloting a Thunderbird Huey helicopter over the Mekong Delta in Vietnam ...

  

  Naughty but Nice: Commercial Illustrator Gillette Elvgren

  Appeared in The Gazette, Spring/Summer 2020 by Helen Weaver For 15 years from the early 1940s until the late 1950s, ...

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  Back in the Day: Mike Leonard on Winnetka — ‘This is My Town’

  Appeared in The Winnetka Current Daily, February 24, 2020 By Holly Marihugh, Contributing Columnist Mike Leonard will be featured as ...

  

  The Illinois Lakeshore 2100, Adaptive Shorelines to Cope with Climate Change

  Appeared in the Gazette, Fall/Winter 2019 By Charles W. Shabica, Ph.D., P.G. Educated at Brown, Yale, and the University of ...

  

  The Big Move: When the Log House Made a Landing in Crow Island Woods

  By Holly Marihugh Appeared in the Gazette: Fall/Winter 2019   Even though it rained cats and dogs on and off, ...

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  A Look Back at 1969, Winnetka’s Centennial Year

  By Helen Weaver Appeared in the Gazette: Fall/Winter 2019 As we celebrate the sesquicentennial year of our Village’s founding, let’s ...

  

  Pivoting in a Pandemic

  Originally appeared in the Fall 2020 Gazette, By Executive Director, Mary Trieschmann In the spring of 2020 we experienced historic ...

  

  Hope Amidst Hardship: The Indomitable Character of Anita Willets-Burnham

  Originally appeared in the Fall 2020 Gazette, by Ann Thompson Every age is subject to tragedies and challenges and how ...

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  Hadley: a Shining Light for 100 Years

  Originally appeared in the Fall 2015 Gazette; updated August 2020 By Cecile Hales; Updates by Meagan McChesney Winnetka schools are ...