Lake Forest Podcast

Lake Forest Podcast

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Lake Forest Podcast episodes

  • Lake Forest History 101 "Art Class" with Arthur Miller

     Arthur Miller The Co-Author of Lake Forest: Estates, People, and Culture, and Lake forest History Legend joins The Lake Forest Podcast with "Art Class" Art will feed us some history nuggets each week! This week Art joins Pete Jansons to explain why there is so much traffic on Deerpath road lately. Here's a clue ....it's something to do with the water. Check it out



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    29 min
  • Lake Forest History 101 "Art Class" with Arthur Miller

    Lake Forest History Legend Arthur Miller Schools Skoo Walker and Pete Jansons once again on Lake Forest History. Hurry to your seats class has started.

    Topics:

    • Costco/Whole Foods/Not So Fast Mayor Casey Urlacher!
    • Onwentsia Club/Midwest Golf started in Lake Forest
    • Billboards
    • Lake Forest Open Lands 1967
    • Conway Farms
    • Texaco/Shell across from Deer Path Inn
    • Don's Finest Food 1867-2008
    • First Angus Cattle in Lake Forest


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      45 min
    • "Art Class" Featuring Arthur Miller with Special Guest Carol Summerfield Executive Director Historical Center Lake Forest Lake Bluff

      Arthur Miller during his "Art Class" had Carol Summerfield the Executive Director of the Lake Forest Lake Bluff History Center drop by and discuss: Looking into the history of why folks have moved into the community since the 1830s.


      Show Notes:

      The early agricultural phase of settlers on the land mostly WEST of Green Bay Rd. Was people coming from Ireland to work on the Illinois and Michigan Canal, that connected Chicago to the Illinois River southwest, leading down the the Mississippi, St. Louis, and New Orleans. Their families stayed on their land and then after the project failed in an 1837 Panic, they lived by farming with wood lots east of Green Bay Rd.

      The Chicago group of wealthy entrepreneurs and their families, the Presbyterian Yankees, Scots, and Scots-Irish, came in the late 1850s after the 1854 Cholera epidemic killed 1,500 in the city, but also over anti-slavery politics, so their blue laws did not force pro-anti slavery Germans to join the Pro-slaver Irish, who feared new cheap labor, over Sunday and alcohol rules. (Source: “Bygone Days in Chicago” 1910).

      The Chicago Fire, 1871, brought new residents by 1875, over the lawlessness in the wake of the fire (Arpee) and then the 1877 Railroad Strike/riots.

      More labor unrest up to 1886 and the culminating Haymarket affair , leading to Ft. Sheridan, 1887, and the thepullman Strike 1894 was the last straw for the McCormicks and others. Then, J. Ogden Armour after a packers strike 1904, he bought his first land that December and his house built by 1908.

      Also, the stockyards odors brought folks out by the 1890s seasonally mid-April to mid November when windows might be opened. Winters in Lake Shore Drive apts where lake breezes held off the stench from the yards, worse by Friday’s and Saturday’s (cleaning on Sundays).

      By the late 1930s to 1970s, middle class coming out for schools, etc. then after Reagan economics after high taxes, new money took over old houses, restored them. Up to 2008, then quiet for a decade while city life boomed, until the pandemic and looting and the exodus to the suburbs again.

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      42 min
    • Lake Forest Black History "Art Class" with Arthur Miller

      Arthur Miller The Co-Author of Lake Forest: Estates, People, and Culture, and Legendary Locals of Lake Forest  Teaches  "Art Class"  and this weeks topic is Lake Forest Black History 

      Notes: (Pete tried to keep up with Art he was on a roll)

      • Underground Railroad was part of Lake Forest
      • Earliest Black Community was at Washington and Illinois st (Livery Stables)
      • Charles Dyer
      • Samuel Dent
      • 1860's Lake Forest started integrating schools
      • 1955 Glinnette Tilley Turner Lake Forest College Graduate wrote 10 books on the underground railroad
      • 1957 Deerpath Thater allowed Blacks to sit in all seats, not just balcony
      • 1962 Lake Forest College said that their admissions much match the race % of general society

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        37 min
      • Arthur Miller's "Art Class" topic Public Art (Pardon the Double Pun)

        Arthur Miller teaches "Art Class" to Pete Jansons each week. This Weeks's topic is Public Art. The Artwork you see walking around town that you may not notice.

        Quote from Art "Lake Forest is not just a lot of big houses and stores, we got a lot of great culture too!"

        Notes:

        • Squares over doorways in town. Fleur de lis, squares, wreath, Tudor, and roses.
        • Artwork in the Lake Forest Library and outside it
        • Market Square Fountain and sculpture on top of it
        • Sculpture at Lake Forest College at Sheridan and Deerpath


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        • Arthur Millers "Art Class" and his 20 Year History Article for Forest Bluff Magazine

          In today's "Art Class" Arthur Miller teaches Pete Jansons about the last 20 years of Lake Forest History by recapping the article he wrote for July's Forest Bluff Magazine.

          Notes: (Pete used 2 pens and 30 sheets of paper many many more topics to listen to!!!)

          • Frank Farwell (CROYA, Rec Center, Lake Forest Beach, Ragdale City property
          • Former CEO Abbott Miles White
          • Smith's Mens Store
          • John Bryan
          • Alice Judson Hayes
          • Posey Krehbell
          • Gale Hayes
          • Ellen Sterling Lake Forest Shop
          • Northwestern Hospital

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            37 min
          • The Chicago Fire and its impact on Lake Forest with Arthur Miller's "Art Class"

            Arthur Miller schools Pete Jansons again in "Art Class" 

            Here are Art's notes from the show:

            • With the 150th anniversary year of the Chicago Fire,  in early October 1871. If you want to get a feel for pre-Fire Chicago’s north side of river garden estates district, destroyed the Fire, visit east Lake Forest along Deerpath and Sheridan. 
            • The earliest institutional building is the March 1859 opened Academy boarding house, built by Sylvester Lind; by 1867 at least this was a private home, moved ca. 1869 to its current location, 725 N. Sheridan Rd. It was later modified ca. 1890 by J. W. Root (Burnham & Root) and by Frost & Granger 1907, but much in its pre-Civil War, pre-Fire condition. 
            • More like that for 570 and 660 Sheridan, 644 E. Deerpath, 550 E. Deerpath with its stable now north of driveway on Presbyterian Church property. Also 797 Sheridan including 1859 first store, etc. 
            • Lost, the summer 1871 hotel on the lake, now the location of the newly bought Schweppe house, the last diner served the Sunday night of the Fire. As early college building, 1876-77, it burned December 1877. 
            • Many families made their way here after the Fire, notably the various Durand siblings in the grocery business. Also livery driver, Union soldier/veteran, and former slave Samuel Dent. 

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              42 min
            • The History of Lake Forest Day "Art Class" with Arthur Miller

              Lake Forest History Legend Arthur Miller teaches "Art Class" and the topic is the History of Lake Forest Day which is the first wed over August and lasts 2 days Aug 3 and 4 The American Legion needs volunteers!!! Call Commander Neil Lynch at 904-710-0195  or visit https://www.lakeforestday.com/

              Lake Forest Day Book: https://www.amazon.com/Lake-Forest-Day-Celebration-Illinois/dp/0738552496

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              33 min

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