News Links

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2013

• 04/26/2013 Celebrate Our Heritage with the 2013 Centennial Family Awards
• 01/02/2013 The Open Steel Highway: The 50th Anniversary of the Closing of the North Shore Interurban

2012

• 11/20/2012 Everett and Beyond: A Celebration of West Lake Forest
• 11/07/2012 Gone But Not Forgotten: Barat College
• 09/11/2012 A LEGO Experience: The Farnsworth House
• 09/05/2012 Local Legends: John Bryan Interviewed by Bill Kurtis
• 05/02/2012 Historical Society Hires Director of Development
• 04/24/2012 A Century of the Lake Forest Garden Club and Centennial Family Awards
• 03/18/2012 History Gets a Makeover: Introducing Our New Website

2011

• 11/02/2011 Great Lakes Celebrates 100 Years
• 09/28/2011 Historical Society Children’s Event: Reaching New Heights Through LEGO Design
• 08/03/2011 Spirits of the Past: A Living History Tour of the Lake Forest Cemetery
• 05/10/2011 Walter Frazier: Architect of the 20th Century – Lecture and House Tour
• 04/19/2011 Program Highlights Heritage of Local Families
• 04/14/2011 Stately Observers: Witness Tree of Lake Forest
• 03/17/2011 Local Groups Encouraged to Celebrate Their Heritage Through Lake Forest Legacy Project
• 02/17/2011 Time Warp: Lake Foresters Sign their City Charter
• 01/20/2011 Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society Receives Grant of $100,000
• 01/18/2011 Lake County in the Civil War: Free Lecture Co-Sponsored by the Historical Society and Lake Forest College

2010

• 09/15/2010 Local Legends: Captain Jim Lovell interviewed by Bill Kurtis
• 08/24/2010 “The École des Beaux Arts” of Lake Forest: A Free Lecture
• 07/23/2010 Historical Society Book Wins Award from AAM
• 05/25/2010 Garden Tour: Nature By Design – A Tour of Four Historic Gardens
• 03/31/2010 Historical Society Exhibition Unveils Garden and Estate Drawings of the 1920s
• 02/04/2010 Lecture: On and Off the Course: Golf In Chicago

2009

• 10/06/2009 Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society Wins Award for Exhibit
• 09/22/2009 80 Years Later: Lake Forest and the Great Depression
• 07/08/2009 Announcing the Publication of the Book Walter Frazier: Frazier, Raftery, Orr & Fairbank Architects
• 06/05/2009 Mill Road Farm Comes to Life in Historical Society Tour
• 04/23/2009 Local Golf Stories Featured in Historical Society Exhibit