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.

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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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Lake Forest "Historic Historian" Arthur Miller talks about his recollection of visiting the Beaches of Omaha 20 years after the fact as well as the role the North Shore played in DDAY.

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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)

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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!"

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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!!!)

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Arthur Miller schools Pete Jansons again in "Art Class" 

Here are Art's notes from the show:

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Arthur Miller talks about Lake Forest History and how it has resolved discord in its past

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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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Laura Calvert Executive Director Elawa Farm Foundation came on the show to talk to Skoo Walker and Pete Jansons about what's going on at the farm!

https://elawafarm.org/

1401 Middlefork Drive, Lake Forest, IL 60045

(847) 234-1966

In support of Elawa Farm Foundation's education & food access initiatives

Featuring dinner by Le Colonial

Saturday, September 25, 2021

From 6 - 10 pm

At Elawa Farm

6 pm – Cocktails

7 pm – Dinner catered by Le Colonial

8:15 pm – Program + Paddle Raise

9 pm – Music & Dancing in Hay Barn

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