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What's new?  (July 2002 through December 2002 entries)

December 2002

Adding entries to Early Residents and Settlers for:

• William Gray Purcell
• Martha Louise Rayne
• George Schrade

• Hemingway, Clarence E., Dr. and Grace Hall (parents of Ernest Hemingway)

• Humphrey, Doris

• Smith, William Sooy

• Tope, John W.

• Albert Roos, Albert C. Roos, Fred B. Roos

• Meyer, Fred C.

• Gaden, John

• Kendall, Charles

Added Proviso Township Maps to Village Histories and Franzosenbusch Heritage Society -- Quick Links to Key Pages pages.

Updated Community Calendar of Events page.

Entries added or updated on Early Residents and Settlers page for many individuals including:

Added:

• Harlem State Bank (1906) to the Forest Park page

• The Speedway to the Broadview page

• Hines Hospital to the Broadview page

Added pages and hyperlinks for:

• Oak Ridge Cemetery (Hillside)
• Mount Carmel (Hillside)

November 2002

Added picture of antique furniture in the Franzosenbusch House Through The Years.

Updated Community Calendar of Events and Village Histories.

Improved and/or added photographs to:

• Immanuel Lutheran Church page--courtesy of Ruth Lommatzsch

• Early Village History (Westchester)

• Westchester's Rapid Transit Line

Entries added or updated on Early Residents and Settlers page for many individuals including:

• Conway, Edwin

• Grunow, William C.

• Michalsky, August C.

• Roos, Albert, Sr.

• Skinner, James Fletcher

• Sloan, Junius R. and Sara nee Spencer

• Hintze, Frederick

• Kistenbroker, Arthur W.
• Schulzke, Ferdinand
• Zimmermann, Ludwig

• Sabath, Adolph Joachim

• Fantus, Bernard M., Dr.

• Schmidt, Lars and Eddie

• Strasser, Adolph

• Lehmann family
• Parks, Emil J.
• Braga, Merritt E.

Added Checkerboard Field newspaper articles from 1919 and 1920s from Maywood Herald -- Checkerboard Field.

Added Broadview Area Landowners in 1870 map to Village of Broadview page which was also revised.

Added the Historical Society of Forest Park (on this site with links to HSFP's own site)

Photographs added to:

• Divine Infant School and Parish

• ImmanuelLutheranSchool

• Immanuel Lutheran Church page with a paragraph on the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery and "Old" Proviso Cemetery.

Added biographies and other items to the History of Forest Home and German Waldheim Cemeteries page.

Added Cemeteries page with initial entries for:

• Jewish Waldheim Cemetery

• History of Forest Home and German Waldheim Cemeteries

• Woodlawn Cemetery

• Concordia Cemetery

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

Entries added or updated on Early Residents and Settlers page for many individuals including:

• Uihlein, Edward G.

• Digregorio, Angelo

• Grenke, Margaret M.

• Pitkin, Edward Hand and Little Morey

• Austin, Henry W., Sr.

• Kettlestrings, Joseph and Betty Willis

• Herrick, Origen White

• Roberts, Thomas E, Dr. and Alice Hovey Hurlbut

• Goldman, Emma

• Burridge, Walter Wilcox

• Babcock, Vera

• Baumgartner, Marguerite

• Bernsee, Barbara
• Bott, Carmen A.
• Cobdray, Margery
• Gulano, Lenore
• Gunderson, R. W.
• Kuettler, Arthur, Jr.
• Luhtala, Viona
• O'Brien, Edward K.
• Rossi, Beverly
• Shearburn, Arthur
• Sleyko, Violet
• Stein, G. Shirlee
• Tyson, I. J.

Added Village Histories links page to the main page.

October 2002

A partial History of Forest Home and German Waldheim Cemeteries.

Information added to the Village of Broadview pages including:

• Broadview Business District 1920s

• Andrew Borg_Tribune August 26_1926. 

• Chicago Tribune  May 29 1917_BROADVIEW COPS AND JUDGES WAX FAT ON AUTOISTS

• Jan 1933--More Exciting Times

• March 1928--Improvements to Roosevelt Road

• May 1930--Exciting Times

Entries added or updated on Early Residents and Settlers page for many individuals including:

• Andersen, Mrs. James

• Bathje, George

• Behn, Henry

• Behncke, David D.

• Behrmann, Harry

• Beltz, Arthur
• Bernard, Louis

• Braga, Merritt

• Braga, Mrs. Merritt

• Borg, Andrew

• Bronson, Frederick

• Chiz, Ed

• Coburn, Forest F.
• Coons, B. B.
• Coleman, B.
• Cote, George
• Cote, James G.
• Cote, Mrs. James
• Cummings, Edmund A.

• Davis, Mr. (first name unknown)

• Deluca, Nick
• DePalma, Ralph
• Detche, William

• Dote, Donald

• Dreshler, Sophy and Charles
• Fioravanti, Charles
• Gale family
• George, D.
• Gondek, Mrs. Joseph
• Grant, Edward

• Hasse, Ferdinand

• Hoermann, Ernest

• Horn, Frank

• Huszar, Joseph "Indian Joe"

• Kluzak, Mrs. George

• Krotz, Edward
• Lubko, Ernest
• Mann, Robert

• Markey, Robert

• Mueller, Elizabeth
• Mueller, Jacob
• Muir, Mr.

• Peckat, Walter

• Popp, Arthur

• Porter, Augustin

• Prosser, Herbert

• Radtke, Herman

• Rapley, Mrs. Donald

• Resta, Doric

• Roff, Donald

• Rogers, Alfred

• Rogers, Fred

• Rotermund, Edward

• Scarpaci, Frank

• Schroeder, Harry

• Shank, Charles

• Smock, W.
• Speno, Richard
• Steele, Ashbel
• Sunday, Billy
• Vallo, Vincent
• Topper, James

• Walter, George

• Wengler, Mrs. Al

• Westphal, Adolph
• Wonderling, Mrs. Marvin

• Yndestad, Mrs. Fred

Added Broadview Boundaries map with text and hyperlink added to Village of Broadview page.

Added a Map of Franzosenbusch And Adjacent Areas to the Franzosenbusch History pages.

The biographies of the nine founding fathers of the Immanuel Lutheran School have been updated in the Early Residents and Settlers section.

We wish to take a special notice this month of the 150^th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of the Immanuel Lutheran Southern School District.  On October 13, the Immanuel Lutheran Church (Hillside) will celebrate the granting of the request to establish (and build) a school of their own in the Franzosenbusch Community in the vicinity of 22^nd Street (Cermak) and Wolf Road.  This action led to the construction of a school in the spring of 1853 which survives as the northeast section of the Franzosenbusch Prairie House.  In honor of this occasion we add the Franzosenbusch History pages to our site.

• Added Faith Lutheran Church to Churches in Westchester.

• Added architect's 1959 conceptual drawing for Divine Providence Parish.

• In June of 1929 the Greater Chicago Magazine ran several articles on the "ideal community of the future -- Westchester".  Read these articles from the Greater Chicago Magazine June 1929 Issue.  It echoes much of the optimism written a few years earlier in the Westchester Tribune September 28 of 1926 (previously available on this site).

September /2002

• Added Broadview Fire Department

• Added Broadview Police Department

• Added Early History of the La Grange-LaGrange Park Schools

• Added District 92 1/2.  This is a compilation by Charles Field on the first twenty years of District 92 1/2 drawn from the Board's own minutes and records.  It is broken into sections as was Mr. Field's compilation.

We have been working on a number of projects the last few weeks.  Many of these are starting to come to fruition.  Some of those being posted this weekend include:

• Revisions to Checkerboard Field

• Updates to History Overview and Timeline

• Pages for the Village of Broadview including:

  • Schools of Broadview

  • Churches of Broadview

• Added Early Map of La Grange Park with part of a 1967 Suburban Life Citizen article by Frederick Favor.

• Added La Grange Park Church Histories to the Area Churches page with entries for many churches not previously posted to this site.

• Updated Community Calendar of Events

August 2002

• Added Saint Michael's Lutheran Church

• Added Saint John's Lutheran Church

• Added LaGrange Park 1930s and Later

• Updated Saint Domitilla with photograph of current church complex

• Updated The Village of La Grange -- 1930s and Later

• Added First United Methodist Church to the Area Churches page

• Corrected the list of What's New items for 07/28/02 and 07/21/02 (typos and incorrect link names)

July 2002

• Added Emmanuel Episcopal Church-LaGrange to the Area Churches page

• Updated the Community Calendar of Events page

• Added The Village of La Grange -- 1930s and Later

• Added or updated entries on Early Residents and Settlers for:

  • Lyman, David Brainard

  • Ullrich, Alex

  • Jobson, Frank

  • Shirk, M.

  • Ambrose, Joshua E.

  • Fox, George M., Dr.

  • Bollman, Joseph A.

  • Nawn, John

  • O'Brien, William J.

  • Morrissey, Gerald

  • Gallagher, Charles G.

  • Wesemann, Louis

  • Vial entries including:
    George
    Samuel
    Joseph (son of Samuel)
    Joseph (father of Samuel)

  • Cossitt, Franklin

  • Kemman, Alphonse, Jr.

  • Kemman, Henry and Louise

  • Covell family

  • Ely, Frank

  • Mathews, L. G.

  • Curtis, Walter N.

  • Wesemann, Wilhelmine

  • Peterson, William A.

  • Dieke, Heinrich and Wilhelmine (Wesemann)

  • Mesenbrink, Heinrich, Senior

  • Degener, Heinrich (Henry)

  • Meyer, Friedrich (Frederick)

  • Nichols, William T., Colonel

  • Puscheck Family

  • Barta, John

  • Hintzes

  • Mandel, William

  • Reiche Family

• Added Early History of La Grange Park and La Grange -- Early Village History

• Updated Early History of the La Grange/La Grange Park Area with photos and photo credits including:

  • The Covell home

  • The Vial home

  • The Dieke home

• Added photo of Salt Creek to Salt Creek entry.

• Added a picture of the mission church to the page for ST. DOMITILLA church and school.

• Links to an album of Degener Family Photos added to Early Residents and Settlers page

• Updated entries on Early Residents and Settlers for:

  • William Zelosky

• Added the first of several pages on the La Grange/La Grange Park area history Early History of the La Grange/La Grange Park Area

Click HERE for older updates.

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Last Modified:  01/20/2003