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From left to right: D.B. Littrell, Major G.E. Cook, E.J. Lundin, Hon. H.L. Ickes, C.G. Sauers, H.W. Snell, Photo taken at National Park Service Headquarters, Camp Skokie Valley, Spril 3, 1938, on occasion of the celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corps. WHS Object 1976.59.28 (© all rights reserved)

“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. He was born near Altoona, Pennsylvania, on March 15, 1874. After his mother’s […]