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Gazette Article by George Brodsky, Summer 1995 Updated November 17, 2021 On August 18, 1874, a non-denominational body of 22 people gathered to form the Winnetka Congregational Church. They rented the vacated one-room Unitarian Church at Cherry and Maple Streets. The church went on to occupy a structure on the present site of the Hadley […]
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Gazette Article by Barbara Sholl, Fall 1994 Updated November 17, 2021 In 1897, four lots at the corner of Tower and Burr in Winnetka were purchased for $1,000 to establish a Catholic congregation for 1,500 residents of Winnetka, Glencoe, Lakeside (now Hubbard Woods) and the farms located in what are now the communities of Northfield […]
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Gazette Article by Linda Corwin, Gazette Spring 1994 A wayside tavern for the weary pioneers on their long trek from New York to Wisconsin became Winnetka’s first church, Christ Church. When John and Susannah Garland and their eight children reached the Patterson Tavern in 1847, en route from the East to the wilds of Wisconsin, […]
