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The district contains many buildings of merit, including the Oak Park Post Office on Lake Street, designed in 1933 by Charles E. White Jr. and his partner Bertram A. Weber, in 1933, and the Art Deco Medical Arts Building, designed by Oak Park architect Roy J. Hotchkiss.
The Medical Arts Building was Hotchkiss's principal contribution to Oak Park's architectural landscape. [12] Ground was broken on December 5, 1928, and the first tenants moved on November 15, 1929. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] By January 1930, the building was almost fully occupied. [ 14 ]
Classic Cinemas is the largest Illinois based movie theatre chain. Headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, it operates 16 locations with 141 screens in Illinois and Wisconsin under Tivoli Enterprises ownership. [1] Its first theatre and company namesake is the restored Tivoli Theatre, in Downers Grove, Illinois.
In 1835, Joseph and Betty Kettlestrings, immigrants from Yorkshire, England, staked out a farm and built a house near Lake Street and Harlem Avenue, west of Chicago.Once their children were born, they moved to Chicago for the schools in 1843, and moved back again in 1855 to build a more substantial home a bit east on their quarter section of land.
In 1902, Oak Park voters approved a tax to fund a public library. In 1903, citizens elected a Library Board of Trustees and established the first public library in Oak Park. The library was located in the Scoville Institute building at 834 Lake Street, and replaced a private subscription library housed in that building since 1888.
The Masonic Temple Building (also known as the Scoville Block, Gilmore's Store, and Scoville Square Building) is a historic Prairie-style building in Oak Park, Illinois, at the corner of Oak Park Avenue and Lake Street. It is in the Ridgeland-Oak Park Historic District and was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Oak Park Police Detective Allan Reddins was the first Oak Park officer killed in the line of duty since 1938. ... Reddins and other officers came across the suspect in the 800 block of Lake Street ...
The Oak Park-River Forest War Memorial, known as Peace Triumphant, is a memorial to the veterans of World War I located at the top of the hill on the park's north end. The monument was erected in 1925 by citizens of Oak Park and neighboring River Forest , who donated the $52,573.63 needed to build the granite and bronze monument to community ...