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  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 ...

  

  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 ...

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  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, ...

  

  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 ...

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  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, ...

  

  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 ...

  

  Fire Department Photo Gallery

  Winnetka Fire Department patch and fire engine instruction booklet for a 1919 fire engine. This engine was purchased when George ...