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Highland Park Historical Society File
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Typed Notes and Early Article Layouts

A variety of notes with subjects indicated at the top of the page. Towards the middle of the collection, text changes to early-stage writing of articles that appear similar to some photocopied content above, with pictures missing. All content is on paper with perforated sides.

Daggitt Cemetery documents

Newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, legal documents and educational materials related to the commemoration and rededication of the Grace/Daggitt Cemetery in September 1996. Marvyn Wittelle is frequently mentioned and may have used some of the seemingly unrelated documents in this folder in her research for her book. They may have also been property of the Rotary Club, which owned several of the photographs in this folder.

The Business District Plan of Highland Park

bound report on Highland Park, including reports on population, economics, consumers, parking, zoning, financing, etc. Also includes letter addressed to the Mayor and City Council introducing the report and informing that the report has been shared with the Chamber of Commerce.

Stanton and Rockwell, Planning Consultants

City Maps

Two maps detailing the city, one including proposed placement of flourescent street lighting.

Cole, P.E.

Handbooks for Citizens

Four books produced by the League annually that instruct citizens of Highland Park on how to participate in political and governmental affairs. Marvyn Wittelle owned at least one of these, as her first name is inscribed across the top and first page of the 1957-58 version.

League of Women Voters of Highland Park

Reports to the Community

Bound reports communicating information on the Highland Park community to its members and visitors, from the Mayor, City Council, Chamber of Commerce, and others. Includes 1953 town hall meeting reports that were also published as part of the "Our Home Town" series that appears in this folder. Includes a 1950 "This is Glencoe" report from the League of Women Voters of Glencoe that may have served as a model. Also includes a report from the Highland Park Hospital Association in 1919, reproduced for its 70th anniversary in 1989.
Contributors include The City of Highland Park, Chamber of Commerce, and League of Women Voters of Highland Park.

Official City Plan, Highland Park, Illinois

2 copies. A bound book containing a letter introducing the plan to the mayor and city council as well as analyses and recommendations in areas such as distribution of population, land use, street planning, parks and schools, sanitation, etc.

Chamber of Commerce letters, minutes, and documents

Contains minutes from board meetings, as well as letters and documents detailing responsibilities of the chamber's various committees. Also includes letters addressed to/by members of the Highland Park Chamber of Commerce in relation to the development of blildings in the area and a history of the Chamber of Commerce, in which Rhoda Perlman details current practices in the mid-1970s.

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