Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments
In the preparation of this pamphlet I am greatly indebted to Marlene Williams, Village Clerk, who gave me the free use of her office for some time, and access to her files of ordinances and board minutes, and to many maps; to Robert Molumby of the Planning Office for use of the various zoning maps there, duplicates of which he gave me in many cases to the Engineering Office; to Rosemary Schmitt, President of the Skokie Historical Society, for lending me constant encouragement and help of various sorts; and to my wife, former president of the Society, who is the first person in recent times, to my knowledge, to draw the map showing the original boundaries of Niles Center. She also made clean copies of my maps for purposes of reproduction in this pamphlet.
The substance of the pamphlet was originally presented in the form of a talk before the Society on December 4, 1982. The Society has many of the zoning maps I used as a guide in preparing this work, and will be happy to show them to interested persons. At its headquarters at 8031 Floral Avenue, it has also the original manuscript of a rather scanty diary I kept of a walk around the border of Skokie, which adventure ultimately suggested the preparation of the talk before the Society and the preparation of this pamphlet. A present day zoning map, showing the village in its entirety, may be purchased in the Planning Office at Village Hall for a nominal fee.
Joseph Beaver - Sanibel, Florida - February 1983