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Cook and tell

  • US IlHpHS 2014.7.2
  • Item
  • ca. 1962-1965

Community cookbook compiled by women's group of local parish.

Tabernacle Guild. Immaculate Conception Church. (Highland Park, Ill.).

Chief Fire Marshall's belt

  • US IlHpHS 2014.5
  • Item
  • circa 1899

Belt worn by Andrew Bock, Chief Fire Marshall of the Highland Park Fire Deprtment. Raised, embossed leather reads "Chief" on front and raised, embossed letters "HPFD" on fastner.

Highland Park Fire Department.

Building the house

  • US IlHpHS buil.hou
  • Item
  • 1929-1930

Highland Park B/W photo scrapbook documenting building of house on Lake Michigan in Highland Park, Illinois. Architects, builders, interior and exterior are featured with detailed descriptions. The house, located at 2445 Woodbridge, was built by the Lawerence Stein family.

Stein family

Baird and Warner Inc. Addition to Deere Park Sub. being a subdivision...

Baird and Warner Inc. Addition to Deere Park Sub. being a subdivision...

  • US IlHpHS R2012-22
  • Item
  • 1/29/1926

Baird and Warner Inc. Addition to Deere Park Sub. being a subdivision of the Southeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 and the Southwest Fraction 1/4 of Section 31 Township 43 North Range 13 East of the 3rd P.M. Also Lots 13 and 14 in Hill and Stones ravine View Subdivision in the said Southwest 1/4 of Section 31 T.43N. R.13E of 3rd P.M. in the city of Highland Park, Lake County, Illinois. The map shows the area from west to east, Ravinia Court to Lake Michigan and north to south Deere Park Sub. to Sheridan Rd. Approved and accepted by the council of the city of Highland Park, this 29th day of January, A.D. 1926 signed by Samuel M. Hastings, Mayor.

Baird and Warner.

Autographed cookery

  • US IlHpHS 2013.8
  • Item
  • 1948

Cookbook created by Highland Park Auxiliary of the Cradle, adoption agency based in Evanston, Illinois.

Highland Park Auxiliary of the Cradle

Association of North Shore Municipalities : Charter

  • US IlHpHS char.ansm
  • Item
  • October 7, 1916

Charter incorporating Association of North Shore Municipalities with the following participants Waukegan, North Chicago, Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, Highwood, Highland Park, Glencoe, Winnetka, Kenilworth, Wilmette, and Deerfield.

Founded in 1917 with the leadership of Highland Park, Illinois mayor Samuel M Hastings to "secure to cooperations of the North Shore Municipalities in the administration of questions which affect the community...to acquire and disseminate valuable commercial , scientific and economic information pertaining to the business of municipalities, and to secure uniform action, economy and efficiency in the administration of municipal affairs.

The association endured at least into 1961 when it advocated for the continuation of the North Shore (electric railway) Line that ran from Chicago to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Illinois--Office of the Secretary of State

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