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In 1914 the Wilmette Beach Improvement Association was founded to clean up the village's unsupervised shoreline. The group established an official swimming beach at the foot of Lake Avenue, the site of today's Gillson Beach, with facilities including a bathhouse, swings, benches, and umbrellas. [6]
Proposals are being considered to complete the final mile and a half of the trail, which would connect the path to Gillson Park at the Wilmette lakefront. [ 15 ] Several recent improvements were completed in 2019, including the Lincoln Village Pedestrian Bicycle Bridge and just past where the channel merges with the north branch of the Chicago ...
Gillson Park and Wilmette Harbor Historic District: Gillson Park and Wilmette Harbor Historic District: May 2, 2024 : Michigan Avenue and Sheridan Road: Wilmette: 48: William A. Glasner House: William A. Glasner House
Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. [1] One of the earliest known monographs to be devoted to the North Shore, The Book of the North Shore (1910), and its companion volume, The Second Book of the North Shore (1911), were written by Marian A. White, whose husband J. Harrison White had established a weekly newspaper in Rogers Park in 1895 called the North Shore ...
[1] In 1942, after decades of disputed ownership and legal wrangling, the area was annexed by the village of Wilmette. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The club burned down shortly thereafter. The area is now the home of the Plaza del Lago shopping center on the west side of Sheridan Road and a small number of anomalous high-rise residential buildings east of Sheridan.
Man charged with rape of 10-year-old Ohio girl who had to travel to Indiana for an abortion because of new restrictions in her home state.
The district includes 911 contributing buildings; all are houses except for two churches, Trinity United Methodist Church and the Community Church of Wilmette. The southern half of the district was originally part of the Ouilmette Reservation, an Indian reservation which was sold to developers and became the original village of Wilmette in 1872.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 748 points, or 1.7%, and the Nasdaq composite tumbled 2.2%. The preliminary report from S&P Global said activity unexpectedly shrank for U.S. services ...