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Jesse Lowe Smith Collection

  • US IHigp H
  • Collection
  • 1909-1975

Smith, Jesse Lowe, Superintendent of Schools, Highland Park, Illinois

Local Boy Scouts of America histories

  • 2021.3
  • Collection
  • 2020 - 2023

Eleven histories of local scouting troops on the North Shore of Illinois from formation to mid-20th century, including a research guide and historiography of troops in Deerfield, Evanston, Glencoe, Glenview, Highland Park, Highwood, Kenilworth, Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, Libertyville, Northbrook, Wilmette and Winnetka. Digital manuscripts are available on the Illinois Digital Archive Highland Park History Collection.

Ropiequet, John L.

Native American Collection

  • US IlHpHS nati.ame.2
  • Collection
  • ca. 1830-1972

Collection contains materials related to the Native American history in Highland Park. Materials includes newspaper clippings, photographs, and other relevant notes.

Highland Park Historical Society

Sholom A. Singer papers

  • US IlHpHS 2015.3
  • Collection
  • 1924-1987

Sholom Alchanan Singer was born into an orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1924. Yiddish was the language spoken at home and his father, William, was a cantor. His mother, Miriam, was an artist and pianist. Singer inherited his parents' musicality, singing liturgical and opera music. Singer attended public school until second grade, when his parents decided to send him to Yeshiva. After earning his orthodox rabbinic ordination, he became interested in the teachings of Reform Rabbi Stephen Wise. This led him to attend Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, completing his studies in 1951, as a Reform rabbi. He also earned advanced degrees in secular studies, completing a bachelor's degree at Yeshiva University, a master's at Columbia University, and his Ph.D. in intellectual history at the University of Chicago. He had quite an accomplished academic career: He was an associate professor of history at DePaul University. He also taught at Lake Forest College, Northeastern Illinois University, and Spertus College of Jewish Studies. He was a guest lecturer at Carleton College, Princeton University, and Cambridge University England and at Oxford Centre for Graduate Jewish Studies at Oxford University. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Hebrew Union College in 1976. He lectured extensively and published many articles and two books. Singer and his family, which included his wife, Vivian, and three children, came to B'nai Torah in Highland Park in 1957. At the time, the 3-year-old congregation used office space at a storefront location on Central Avenue. Services were held at Lincoln School. The permanent building on Oak Street was purchased in 1959. Singer added innovations to the Reform prayer service, including the "temple in the round," a drama-sermon. Adult study opportunities were offered, including a series of eight lectures on various topics by experts, and the Sunday morning Round Table, a series of 10 lectures held two Sundays a month. After Israel’s Six Day War in 1967, the Singers led a trip to Israel, in part to share their love for the country. Singer felt strongly that Jews living outside Israel should maintain a residence there, leading to the congregation maintaining an apartment in Jerusalem. B'nai Torah also served as the headquarters for the American Association for Ethiopian Jews for many years, thanks to Rabbi Singer. This organization, which ran from 1969-1993, aimed to educate the world about the Beta Israel. B'nai Torah also ran a busy religious school. In a letter addressed to the congregation during the High Holiday services in 1987, he wrote, "As for life, it is not always what we want, but it is all that we've got. Use it wisely. Make the best of it." (Excerpted from "Rabbi brought faith, intellectualism to congregation" Chicago Tribune, November 17, 2014)

Singer, Sholom A.

Leo C. Grotti family, papers

  • US IlHpHS 2015.6
  • Collection
  • 1895-1994, undated

The collection contains documents and physical artifacts related to the Grotti family of Highland Park, Illinois. The vast majority of the collection material was created prior to 1990 and includes documents related to the emigration of the Grotti brothers from Italy, records related to the disputation of their property in Marion County, Illinois and photographs of family members from a variety of eras.

Grotti, Leo C.

Ravinia Park Collection

  • US IlHpHS Ravi.par
  • Collection
  • Bulk, 1920-2000

This artificial collection, created by the Highland Park Historical Society, contains records relating to the Ravinia Park in Highland Park, IL. The collection contains records relating to Ravinia's history, construction, opening and annual festival. The collection also contains photographs of the park as well as newsletters that contain articles about the park. The dates of the materials range from the early 20th century to the early 21st century; the bulk of the material dates from the 20th century.

Highland Park Historical Society

House file

  • US IlHpHS Hous.Fil
  • Collection
  • 1890-2004

The House File comprised of resources pertaining specific addresses and residences in Highland Park and Fort Sheridan. The collection is made up of 3.0 linear feet of periodical clippings, original research, photographs and legal records; dating from the 1890s to early 2000s. This is an artificial collection, which has been arranged alphabetically according to street name.

Highland Park Historical Society

Highland Park Music Club, records

  • US IlHpHS musi.clu
  • Collection
  • 1928-2022 (Bulk 1950-2000)

Materials in this collection include yearbooks, minutes, announcements, scrapbooks, newspaper publications and programs. Box 1 holds the first accession: announcements, minutes, and sheet music, circa 1950-1989. It is arranged chronologically.
There are two series in the 2014 accession: records and scrapbooks.
Box 2 holds five scrapbooks assembled by members and the Club. One scrapbook contains minutes, clippings and other documents related to scholarship concert, 1956 - 1958. Other scrapbooks are chiefly composed of newspaper clippings and fliers dated 1950 -1973, 1973 - 1990, 1990 - 2006, 2007 - 2010.
Box 3, 1928-2010, holds minutes, treasury ledgers, club bylaws, newspaper drafts and clippings, and a club history:
Ledger, July 1929 - May 1981
Secretary's board meeting notebook, February 1928 - June 1938
Treasurer's notebook, May 1960 - May 1981
Treasurer's notebook, August 1981 - May 1994.

Highland Park Music Club

Highland Park School Districts, records

  • US IlHpHS R2012-30
  • Collection
  • 1857-1954

This collection contains materials relating to School Districts 108 and 109 in Highland Park, Illinois. The materials cover the following school properties: Braeside, Lincoln and Ravinia Schools. The files contains blueprints for various parts of the properties, deeds, titles, correspondence, and other research about the properties and locations. The dates of the materials span from the mid 1920s until the mid 1940s.

Highland Park School Districts

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