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What's New?

06/27 & 06/28/2003

Updated Community Calendar of Events with July activities.

06/26/2003

Added entries to Early Residents and Settlers pages for:

• Rowe, H. H.

• Korrell, Lois

Added page for Parkholm Cemetery to the Early History of La Grange Park page.

06/22/2003

Via the Village Histories page, individual village introduction pages for:

• Forest Park Introduction

• Western Springs Introduction

06/18/2003

Via the Village Histories page, individual village introduction pages for:

• Bellwood Introduction

• Broadview Introduction

06/15/2003

Via the Village Histories page we are adding individual village introduction pages.  Our first two entries are:

• Hillside Introduction

• Westchester Introduction

06/07/2003

Updated Community Calendar of Events.

05/15/2003

Updated Immanuel Lutheran Church and Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery entries.

04/29/2003

Updated Community Calendar of Events.

04/26/2003

Added:

• Friends of the Library (Broadview) to the Links Page

• Pictures of prairie / house tours to our Volunteer Opportunities page.

• Performed reorganization on many Early Residents and Settlers page entries.

04/22/2003

Updated Village Histories.

Added Field Park Elementary School,

Added or updated entries to Early Residents and Settlers pages for:

• Sabina Ruth Arnold and David Allen

• Banker, Ethel Frances and William H.

• Blount, Frances A and Sylvester Pierce

• Ben Fuller

• William Odgen

04/17/2003

Updated Village Histories.

Added entries for:

• The Springs of Western Springs to the Western Springs page

• McClure Junior High School to the Western Springs page

• Christian Reformed Church to the Churches of Western Springs page

• First United Methodist Church to the Churches of Western Springs page

• Past issues of the Broadview Bulletin from 1977, 1980 and 1981 -- added to the Village of Broadview page

• Immanuel School Will Be Dedicated Sunday article from a 1951 Westchester Tribune article added to the Immanuel Lutheran School page

04/09/2003

Added entries for:

• Forest Hills School

• Saint John of the Cross School and Church

• Grand Avenue School / Community Center

• John Laidlaw School

• Development in the 1950s newspaper clipping to the Development Efforts in Westchester page.

04/06/2003

Added pictures of Mid-America Bank and Westchester's Masonic Temple to the Westchester And Mount Carmel Transit Lines page.

04/03/2003

Updated Community Calendar of Events page.

Corrected entry for Seventh Day Adventist Church (Broadview).

Added Churches of Western Springs page with entries for:

• Village Church 
• Saint James Lutheran Church 
• All Saints Episcopal Church 
• First Congregational Church of Western Springs

A photo of the commemorative marker for the airmen of Checkerboard (Air Mail) Field was added to the Checkerboard Field, Maywood page.

03/28/2003

Updated entries for Seventh Day Adventist Church (Broadview) and Saint John's Lutheran Church--La Grange.

Added or updated entries to Early Residents and Settlers pages for Albert William Macy.

Added Churches of Western Springs page with entries for:

• Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Swedish Methodist Church

03/20/2003

Added newspaper articles (Western Springs History -- Train Crash of 1915) to the Western Springs page.

Added photographs (circa 1928) to the Development Efforts in Westchester page.

03/12/2003

Added 19th and early 20th Century history entries for Western Springs.

Added or updated entries to Early Residents and Settlers and Village Histories pages for:

• Charles Gustafson

• Clarence H. Rowe

• Dietrich Dierks and Family

• Edgar Williams and Benezette Williams

• Edwin C. "Uncle Ed" Fuller

• Florence Henthorne

• John A. Comstock

• John Holden

• Vaughan Seed Company

03/07/2003

Updated Community Calendar of Events page.

03/03/2003

Added the Broadview Incorporation Papers with links from the Village of Broadview pages.

Added or updated entries to Early Residents and Settlers pages for:

• Gustav Muehlenhaupt

• Henry Zimmerman

• Ludwig Zimmerman

• Paul Zimmerman

02/19/2003

Added 1928 picture of "The Abbey" to the Oak Ridge Cemetery page.

Added links the DuPage Historical Museum and the Thomas Ford Library to the Links Page.

Added or updated entries to Early Residents and Settlers pages for:

• Charlotte Lau

• August Meseke

• Charles Meseke

• August Thode

02/12/2003

Added archives of news articles about Merritt Braga, who was president of Broadview for 42 years.

Added or updated entries to Early Residents and Settlers pages for:

• Merritt Braga

• Otto F Hintze

• Henry Mundt

• Nicholas Schank

02/09/2003

Added Martin Bombers (MB-1, MB-2) entry with links to Maywood Herald -- Checkerboard Field page.

Added entries to Early Residents and Settlers pages for:

• William Glos

• W A Krause

• Marie Lossin

• Masslow, William, Dr

• Gottleibe Schwab

• Wilheim Schwab

02/05/2003

Added Queen of Heaven Cemetery to Cemeteries and other pages.

Added entries to Early Residents and Settlers pages for:

• Herman H Hann

• William G Mette

• Ernst Reich

• Henry Strunk

• Christoph Wiechmann

02/01/2003

Re-organized Village Histories page.

Updated Community Calendar of Events page.

Expanded the The Story of Company A and Bataan page to include material from Bataan Day 2002.

Added entries to Early Residents and Settlers pages for:

• C W Jacob

• L C Kolzow

• Henry H Mohr

• Albert A Rehbein

• Anthony Scherrer

• Otto J E Urban

01/29/2003

Added articles from Martindale Estates News of 1960 with links to Westchester pages.

Added entries to Early Residents and Settlers pages for:

• Albert Lincoln Blessman

• Harry A Cotton

• W F Cotton

• Fred Fry

• Martin W Grosse

• William F Grosser

• E R Hasselbring

• William Kirschbaum

• Adolph Peters

01/20/2003

Reorganized the Early Residents and Settlers pages.

Added entries to Early Residents and Settlers pages for:

• Jacob Bieger

• C M Burroughs

• Ellen Carney

• Otto F Gorke Sr

• Otto F Gorke Jr

• Charles Hillmer

• Elizabeth Hillmer

• Charles Krieger

• Charles Wright

01/15/2003

Added route map to Westchester and Mount Carmel Rapid Transit Lines.

Added the Broadview Zoning Map 2000 to Broadview Boundaries and Village of Broadview.

Added or adjusted entries to Early Residents and Settlers pages for:

• Gustav Boehlke

• Jacob Gold

• George F Hartley

• Max Jungkunz

• John J Kohner

• Henry Lueker

• Henry L Pelles

• Otto Schneider

• C D White

01/10/2003

Added or adjusted entries to Early Residents and Settlers pages for:

• Nicholas Armbrust

• Emil W Bechstein

• Charles E Beck

• Herman L Braun

• Ernest Fichtler

• L H Goltermann

• Otto K Handke

• August Hillmer

• Ernst Jacobi

• Frank Lehmann

• Henry Putz

01/05/2003

Added Lincoln and Early Growth South and West of Chicago with links from Life in "Proviso" (1850 - 1900), Early Settler History 1832-1850, and Proviso Land Ownership in 1863.

Adding or adjusted entries to Early Residents and Settlers pages for:

• Roos, Fred B.  (See Albert Roos Sr.)

• Dorothea Metzger

• Reverend G. H. Michelmann

• Fred C. Meyer

• George Schrade

• Frederick Hintze

• John Gaden

• Charles Kendall

• Graue Family

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Last Modified:  08/17/2003