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In 1976, the Irish Draught Horse Society was founded to preserve the breed, [9] with an external branch in Great Britain emerging in 1979. A horse board, Bord na gCapall, was also founded in 1976 (later resurrected as the Irish Horse Board in 1993), in order to promote the breeding and use of horses other than Thoroughbreds in the country. [2]
Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. [2] 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 ...
The Irish draught horse couldn't contain her excitement--or her speed--as she barreled toward her owner, and it was a moment neither one of them would soon forget. Aww, now that's one happy horse !
Skokie (/ ˈ s k oʊ k i /; formerly Niles Center) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. According to the 2020 census, its population was 67,824. [3] Skokie lies approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of Chicago's downtown Loop. The name Skokie comes from a Potawatomi word for 'marsh'. [4]
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It is roughly bounded by Lemont and Keating Avenues, the Chicago and Northwestern Railway tracks, and the alley to the east of Kilbourn Avenue. The Skokie Valley Trail southern terminus is in this area. The NRHP historic district includes 468 contributing structures and 141 non-contributing ones. [2]
Lincolnwood (formerly Tessville) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.Per the 2020 census, the population was 13,463. [2] An inner suburb of Chicago, it shares its southern, eastern, and a small section of its western boundary with Chicago, also bordering Skokie to the north and west.
I think the key to this debate is when the term "North Shore" is used, its contexts vary from geographical true North Shore (Those actually on the lake) to the cultural North Shore; the latter being the result of migration of Boomers out of West Rogers Park, Skokie, etc, as well as old North Shore communities, westward into Deerfield, Buffalo ...