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Lake Forest: Estates, People and Culture (IL) (Images of America)
Lake Forest Estates People and Culture - IL - Images of America Author:Arthur H. Miller, Shirley M. Paddock Lake Forest: Estates, People, and Culture is the first book-scaled historical survey entirely focused on this notable Chicago North Shore suburb in a generation, offering a newly visual approach to the communityís unique early past. Many of the nearly 200 images have never been published, having been newly discovered in local archives and family... more » collections. İİFrom the Civil War to World War I especially, this community of millionaires flourished, giving rise to a diverse whole town-within-a-town whose local industry comprised the estates and their owners. West Lake Forest had been settled by Irish-descendant farmers after 1836, but by 1857 a new sort of community had sprung up further east, between the then-new railroad line along the lake and the shore. It was a wooded, naturalistic, anti-urban suburb, centered on education and faith, established by New England descendant Chicago Presbyterians, and businessmen with their families. İİ« less