The Lake Forest Podcast

Lori Tisinai Owner of Computer Concepts USA came on the show with Skoo Walker and Pete Jansons to talk about her companies services. Many of the small businesses that we have had on the show swear by Lori's company so we had to get her on!!

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847-604-8421

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August 18 is Marshall Field's Birthday so Arthur Miller's Art Class will be about Marshall Fields relationship with Lake Forest 

Show Notes:

LF has been the home of Marshall Field 5th for many years and now a daughter has a weekend house here as well, a rehabilitated 1911 Shaw mansion.

Marshall Field, I died after a Jan. 1, 1905 or 1906 golf game on the Chicago area, catching a bad cold a third of a century before antibiotics. P.D. Armour had died the same way playing outside with his grandkids five or so years earlier. After Field died, John G. Shedd took over as the second president of the firm, continuing to grow it, including working personally with Edward H. Bennett ca. 1907 on the Walnut Room, with Bennett’s design.  Shedd died in the late 1920s, having given LF lakefront homes to two daughters, Mrs. Schweppe on Mayflower and Mrs. Reed, later Keith. Mrs. Reed rebuilt the garden and house, the latter with David Adler. Mrs. Reed also built an indoor tennis court and adjacent living quarters, where they lived while the 1931 Adler house was built. The two sisters donated the 1931 LF Library, in the same cruciform plan as their father’s late 1920s Aquarium, Chicago. When wings were added in 1978, Mrs. Reed’s son, John Sheed Reed, was the donor; he was chair of the Santa Fe RR, then headquartered in Chicago.

Field I had been planning to build a museum downtown for 1893 fair anthropology artifacts, etc. his nephew, Stanley Field, in the cold golf party, inherited the job of creating the museum. After court losses over putting the museum in Grant Park, they created new landfill south of the grant Park landfill, from coal ashes from the Loop, hand shoveled, and built the building, which opened in 1921. Field also built a Lake Bluff lakefront home at the end of today’s Lakeland Rd.

One of the first branch stores of Fields was in the west building facing the park in Market Square, 1931, eventually expanding to take over the whole building. The upstairs by the 1970s was women’s dresses and sports wear. The basement sold linens, etc., and the main floor accessories, cosmetics, and a few men’s clothes. The malls, with a bigger Fields at Hawthorne, cut into that trade in Market Square. By 2006 the Fields successor company, Macy’s, closed most of the store, though kept the cosmetics business as Blu Mercury.

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Skoo Walker, Arthur Miller, and Pete Jansons discuss the email Pete sent out 8-10-21 which asked for feedback on the Lake Forest Caucus Committee

Problem: It's becoming harder to find volunteers for the Lake Forest Caucus Committee. (Voting residents of Lake Forest) Invitations to participate are being turned down. No Volunteers means no Caucus committee.

Objections.

Objection #1:

t’s Political with a liberal bent, it’s groupthink, “Boys Club”, Clique, and “Insiders Only”

Possible Reasons:

Solution:

Objection #2: The LFC (residents and small businesses) don’t know what the LFC  or LFCC is and LFCC members cannot overcome objections while explaining what the Caucus is.

Possible Reasons:

Solution:

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Stacey Flaster and Liz Fauntleroy Co-Founders of The Performers School stopped by to tell us about their awesome performer's school

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"Art Class" is in session with Lake Forest History Legend Arthur Miller. He goes on to tell Pete Jansons....

http://collections.lakeforest.edu/items/show/2662

Pete Jansons and Skoo Walker will be in front of the Lantern during the Lake Forest Day Parade 8/4/21 10 am giving away "Skoozies" and doing a podcast stop by!! If you can't see us at the Parade Skoo and Pete will be bartending 4-6 pm at the beer tent at Lake Forest Day

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Arthur Miller teaches "Art Class" to Pete Jansons each week. This Weeks's topic is Mr T and his Lake Forest Trees in 1987

Just recently the house that Mr. T lived in was sold. 

The house, the trees and the man is quite the story. We cover everything from Mr. T's early days bouncing at Dingbat's to Critical Race Theory.

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 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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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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