As we enter 2018, we look back one hundred years to the last year of World War I. We explored Libertyville during WWI in a previous post. Now, over the course of the next several months, we will profile some of the men with Libertyville connections who served during the Great War. Courtesy of Jane Brown Ahrens…
This past November, LHS senior Anna Burns delivered a presentation regarding Libertyville during WWI as part of the Libertyville-Mundelein Historical Society's History Matters series. Anna spent numerous volunteer hours over the last year scanning through the local paper on microfilm looking for articles giving a glimpse at what life was like here in Libertyville and…
Welcome back to what will be my final post for the year! While I was trying to come up with a topic for this post, I thought "why not make it about something happy?", and there's nothing I can think of more uplifting that the story of Dennis S. Limberry. Fire marshal, chief of police,…
The Winchester House, soon to be moved to Mundelein, might today be the place you go to visit your grandparents, but did you know that the nursing home is the descendant of the Lake County Poor Farm? For almost a century, through scandals, economic depressions, and a number of name changes, the poor farm stood…
A few years ago I came across a quote about Samuel Insull that struck me: "The town of Libertyville, Ill. was a one-man town, and Samuel Insull once a powerful utilities magnate, was the man. Now that he has been expatriated there is a gap in the community where he was once hailed as the…
Ansel B. Cook, former mayor Paul E. MacGuffin, and Ralph Buckley. If those names sound familiar, that's because we've probably covered them before in one post or another as they were instrumental in making Libertyville what it is today. However, did you know they were also members of the local Masonic Lodge? Not many institutions…
Jenny, our local history librarian returns to the podcast to talk about Libertyville's 19th century claim to fame- the best spring water in the nation! Jenny shares her research on Libertyville icon Frederick Grabbe, the German immigrant, Civil War hero, and beekeeper who founded the Abana Spring Water company. Read Jenny's blog post Frederick Grabbe…
The 3rd annual Lake County History Symposium, held at the Adlai E. Stevenson Home on April 30, focused on Immigrant Stories. Attendees heard about Polish Pioneers in Illinois, the experiences of a select group of families from the “Irish Hills” of Newport Township and the origins of the Lake County’s numerous Irish place names, and the William…
"Immigrant Stories" is the theme of the Lake County History Symposium, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 30, at the Adlai E. Stevenson Historic Home in Mettawa. The day will feature a series of presentations including ones on the Irish experience in Lake County, the Scots of Lake Forest, Polish pioneers, and Libertyville's own…
In the previous Ansel B. Cook post, we followed Ansel B. Cook's rise in Chicago business and politics. While the 1870s were a high point in the life of Ansel B. Cook, the 1880s and 1890s would prove to have ups and downs, particularly in his personal life. In this post we will take a look at the significant…
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