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What's New?  (July 2002 to December 2004)

12/22/2004

Updated Village Histories -- mostly cleanup as we resume applying updates.

02/29/2004

Updated Community Calendar of Events.  More updates will be applied soon.

Updated Village Histories.

02/01/2004

Updated Community Calendar of Events.

Added the newspaper articles:

    to the Western Springs page.

Added the newspaper article To Straighten Wolf Road, LaGrange Citizen, Sep 2 1926 to the Early History of the La Grange Park page.

Added the newspaper article New Shoe Store To Open, LaGrange Citizen, Jul 6 1927 to the La Grange -- Early Village History page.

Added the newspaper article to the Early Village History page.

01/02/2004

Updated Community Calendar of Events.  More updates will be applied soon.

01/01/2004

Added to Village Histories eight 1920s articles from the LaGrange Citizen:

12/07/2003

Added Lorraine F. Jirek to the Early Residents and Settlers -- I to N pages.

Added The Land Reverts to the Past to the entries on Native Americans.

Puscheck -- More Information  was linked to the Puscheck Family page.

11/23/2003

Added information to the Covell Family page.

11/17/2003

Added 1922 Suburban Life Citizen article on Samuel Insull's purchase of land for the British Old People's Home.

Added photographs to the History of Forest Home and German Waldheim Cemeteries page.

Performed cleanup/correction to several pages on the History of Franzosenbusch and the House and the Haase, Ferdinand pages.

10/31/2003

Updated Community Calendar of Events.

Added the "House Page" with an entry on the sidebar.

10/13/2003

Performed some cleanup on Village Histories page and added a LaGrange/LaGrange Park Introduction to the Village Histories page.

A correction was applied to the Area Aerial Photographs page thanks to an informative email from Dale Henigman, a former Westchester resident from 1946-1972.

09/28/2003

Updated Community Calendar of Events with activities for the remainder of 2003.  If you or your organization has an event please email it to Jim Arbuthnot, the webmeister.

09/17/2003

Added brief bio of Ruth Lommatzsch to the Early Residents and Settlers -- I to N page.

Added slide presentation for the September 25, 2003 presentation at the Westchester Public Library.  Note, this is still being revised.

Chasing down broken hypertext links, typo/spellings errors and grammatical errors on the site.  Please be patient.  This activity is an on-going effort.  A few links were corrected and added.

08/27/2003

New WELCOME page with separate Donation Instructions and Membership Pages.

Added Schuth Info page for the family Schuth.

08/17/2003

Updated Community Calendar of Events with activities for the remainder of 2003.

Added The Metis Nation page to Local History and Quick Links to Key Pages pages.

Updated Mount Carmel page with pictures of the Saint Frances Xavier monument and added Saint Frances Xavier of Cabrini--Mother Cabrini entries to the Early Residents and Settlers pages.

Added links to Torodes Woods to numerous pages including:

08/09/2003

Updated Churches in Westchester , Area Churches with the addition of Westchester Bible Church.

07/31/2003

Updated Community Calendar of Events with August activities.

Added links to Savanna Views and What the early settlers may have seen to pages presenting early Proviso Township history.

07/14/2003

Reorganized and added to the Links page.

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Last Modified:  02/06/2006