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At Home in Skokie
Description
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<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Agreement and Grant with the Northwestern Gas, Light & Coke Company, 1910
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Agreement and grant for the Northwestern Gas, Light, and Coke Company to service Golf Road from North Branch Road to the Glenview Golf Club Grounds for 40 years in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). The owners of land in that section were John D. Derves, D. G. Drake and George P. Merrick.
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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Title
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Architectural Drawings for Edwin T. Klehm Residence
Description
An account of the resource
Architectural drawings for Edwin T. Klehm home, which was located at the Northwest corner of Oakton Street and Floral Avenue in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie), until it was torn down in 1959. The home was the first to have indoor plumbing, powered by windmill, and the first to have electricity. The highly detailed drawings show all exterior views of the house including the front, back, sides, and roof. There are also interior floor plans for the entire house, including the first and second floors, the attic and the basement.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1586">View the full record</a>.
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1900 circa; c. late 1800s - early 1900s
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
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Title
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Still Image
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Children standing in front of the Fritz Rose Family Home, circa 1900
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of children standing in front of the Fritz Rose Family home on the Southwest corner of Touhy Avenue and Carpenter Road in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie).
A future Village trustee, Fritz Rose operated the Niles Centre Hotel on the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Oakton Street.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2237">View the full record</a>.
Date
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1900 circa
Medium
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black and white photographs
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
1900s (1900-1909)
AHIS-Before World War I
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
houses
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
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Title
A name given to the resource
At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Still Image
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Title
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Emil Blameuser's Greenhouse, interior, late 1880s
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of the interior of Emil Blameuser's greenhouse in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). Emil Blameuser is at the center of the photograph picking sweet pea flowers. The note on the back of the postcard says, "Inside view of our sweet pea ranch."
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1767">View the full record</a>.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1889 circa; c. late 1880s
Medium
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
black and white photographs
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
Spatial Coverage
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
1880s (1880-1889)
AHIS-Before World War I
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
greenhouses
Niles Center History
skokie history
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Title
A name given to the resource
At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Still Image
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Title
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Fred Hachmeister House at 5010 Warren Street
Description
An account of the resource
Color photograph of the Fred Hachmeister home located at 5010 Warren Street in Skokie, Illinois. The house, which originally was owned by Christ Hachmeister, the wagon maker, may have been moved to this location. Christ Hachmeister's shop was located in the municipal parking lot on the West side of Lincoln Avenue.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1859">View the full record</a>.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1980-06
Medium
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
color photographs
Source
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
Spatial Coverage
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
Rights
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Copyright Undetermined https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
AHIS-Before World War I
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
houses
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
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Title
A name given to the resource
At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Still Image
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Title
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Grosse House on Galitz Street, 1900s
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of Herman (Buddy) Grosse's house on Galitz Street in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie).
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1659">View the full record</a>.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1900s circa
Medium
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
black and white photographs
Source
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
Spatial Coverage
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
Rights
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Copyright Undetermined https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Access Rights
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
1900s (1900-1909)
AHIS-Before World War I
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
houses
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
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Title
A name given to the resource
At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Haben Family Home at 8051 Lincoln Avenue
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of the Haben family home at 8051 Lincoln Avenue in Skokie, Illinois. Originally the first floor was the Harrer Meat Market run by Michael Harrer, father of Adam Harrer, the first Mayor and Fire Chief. The second floor was a living space. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1979">View the full record</a>.
Date
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1987-05-09
Medium
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black and white photographs
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
houses
Niles Center History
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Title
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Still Image
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Title
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Henry Harms' First Home, circa 1854
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of Henry Harms' first home located near the intersection of Lincoln Avenue and Oakton Street in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). Notice the Krumm & Bros. Co. sign on the side.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1997">View the full record</a>.
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1854 circa
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black and white photographs
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
1850s (1850-1859)
AHIS-Before World War I
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
houses
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
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Title
A name given to the resource
At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Still Image
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Title
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Home at 5309 Oakton Street
Description
An account of the resource
Color photograph of the home at 5309 Oakton Street in Skokie, Illinois. This brick house was built by Adam Harrer, the first Fire Chief and the first Mayor of Niles Center, in 1908. The house contained two fireplaces, two parlors, four bedrooms and four bathrooms. The garden apartment was once used as a shop, and in the 1950s, the house was used as a rooming house. In the 1960s, the owner of the Fisher Stone Co., located at Niles Center Road and Main Street, accidentally died in the kitchen.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2096">View the full record</a>.
Date
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1908
1980-06
Medium
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
color photographs
Source
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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AHIS-Before World War I
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
houses
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
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Title
A name given to the resource
At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Still Image
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Title
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Home at 8059 Floral Avenue
Description
An account of the resource
Color photograph of the brick house at 8059 Floral Avenue, probably built in late 1800s or early 1900s in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie).
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1722">View the full record</a>.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1890 circa
1980-06
Medium
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
color photographs
Source
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
Spatial Coverage
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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1890s (1890-1899)
1980s (1980-1989)
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AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
houses
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
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Title
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Home at 9717 Gross Point Road, built in 1871
Description
An account of the resource
Color photograph of the home at 9717 Gross Point Road, built in 1871 by Nicholas Kalmes in Skokie, Illinois.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1993">View the full record</a>.
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1871
1980 circa
Medium
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color photographs
Source
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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1870s (1870-1879)
1980s (1980-1989)
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AHIS-Before World War I
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At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
houses
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
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Title
A name given to the resource
At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Still Image
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Title
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John Roehl Farm and Family, late 1880s
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of the John Roehl farm and family located at 8235-8327 Kenton Avenue in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie).
The Roehl Family later lived at 5252 Galitz Street. Those in the photograph include: John Roehl; his daughter; Erma Roehl; his sons, William Permer and Edward, and his second wife, Wilhelmina Permer Roehl.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1915">View the full record</a>.
Date
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1888 circa; c. late 1800s
Medium
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black and white photographs
Source
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
Spatial Coverage
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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Access Rights
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
1890s (1890-1899)
AHIS-Before World War I
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
Niles Center History
skokie history
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Title
A name given to the resource
At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Still Image
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Title
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Louise Jarmuth Klehm and Edwin T. Klehm Frame House, early 1900s
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of the Louise Jarmuth Klehm and Edwin T. Klehm home in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). This white frame house was built in the 1850s and was originally owned by Johann and Christine Jarmuth. It was located at Niles Center Road and Howard Street. Johann and Christine Jarmuth immigrated from Germany in 1853 and were farmers. This house was moved to Oakton Street and Floral Avenue before 1900 and moved again to the back of the property when Louise and Edwin T. Klehm built their home in front.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2303">View the full record</a>.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1905 circa; c. early 1900s
Medium
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
black and white photographs
Source
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
Spatial Coverage
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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Access Rights
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
1900s (1900-1909)
AHIS-Before World War I
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
houses
Niles Center History
skokie history
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Title
A name given to the resource
At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Still Image
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Title
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Ludwig Schmitt's Carnation Greenhouse, exterior, late 1800s
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of the exterior of Ludwig Schmitt's carnation greenhouse in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie).
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1877">View the full record</a>.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1890 circa; c. late 1800s - early 1900s
Medium
The material or physical carrier of the resource.
black and white photographs
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Skokie--Illinois--United States
Rights
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Copyright Undetermined https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Access Rights
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
1890s (1890-1899)
1900s (1900-1909)
AHIS-Before World War I
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
greenhouses
Niles Center History
skokie history
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At Home in Skokie
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An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Ludwig Schmitt's Carnation Greenhouse, interior, late 1880s
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Black and white photograph of the interior of Ludwig Schmitt's carnation greenhouse in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). Charles August Schmitt is at center picking carnations.
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1890 circa; c. late 1800s - early 1900s
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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Title
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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My Heart's in Niles Center Sheet Music, 1926
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This sheet music, written by Caspar Nathan and L. E. Delson, was the official song of the Greater Niles Center Association. The song, as seen in the lyrics, was used to promote Niles Center to prospective real estate developers and buyers. In the lyrics, Niles Center is referred to as the Triangle of Fortune, the place of opportunity, and as Chicago's Garden spot. On the back of the sheet music the Greater Niles Center Association advertises a contest open to all to write the best letter, story or essay about Niles Center. Those entering the contest were to write about Greater Niles Center's location, about its transportation, facilities, developments, improvements, construction already in and contemplated, its city plan, the new or developed sections, about the profits made in real estate, or a treatise on its possibilities for rapid growth. Niles Center, Illinois, was renamed Skokie in 1940.
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1926
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sheet music
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
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At Home in Skokie
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An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
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Real Estate Contract between Charles Kindt and Sophia Kassens, 1900
Description
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Copy of a real estate contract between Charles Kindt and Sophia Kassens for the North 56 feet of Lot number 18 in Peter Blameuser's subdivision in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). The lot includes a house, barn and outhouse. Sophia Kassens sold the lot to Charles Kindt for $1,900. The contract was witnessed by George H. Klehm.
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1900-06-25
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contract documents
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
Rights
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If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
1900s (1900-1909)
AHIS-Before World War I
AHISdoc
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
houses
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
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Title
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At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Still Image
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Title
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The Jacob Meyer Family in the aster field between their home and greenhouse, circa 1910
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of the Jacob Meyer family in the aster field between their home and greenhouse located at 5406 Lincoln Avenue in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie). George Meyer is at the center. The log cabin currently located at the Skokie Heritage Museum, 8031 Floral Avenue, may have been part of the larger building to the right.
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/2177">View the full record</a>.
Date
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1910; c. 1910s
Medium
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black and white photographs
Source
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
Spatial Coverage
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Skokie--Illinois--United States
Rights
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Copyright Undetermined https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Access Rights
Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies.
If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
1910s (1910-1919)
AHIS-Before World War I
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
greenhouses
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
At Home in Skokie
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Skokie, Illinois, is a thriving, diverse suburban community of 67,824 (U.S. Census 2020). Much of the housing stock is composed of single-family dwellings, with a healthy mixture of apartments and increasingly, condominiums. Skokie’s earliest settlers were farmers and homesteaders, and their homes were mostly large cabins and farmhouses. There was little industrial development in those early days and population growth was slow. At the turn of the twentieth century, about 500 people lived in Skokie, then called Niles Center.</p>
<p>Skokie’s first housing boom was stimulated by the development of rapid transit and good roads into Chicago in the 1920s. Land speculators saw the possibility of developing the area for apartment buildings with easy access to the city center, and many subdivisions, streets, sidewalks, and utilities were laid out. The population of Skokie was 763 in 1920; by 1930 it was 5,007. The onset of the Great Depression brought all this hopeful activity to a halt; thousands of lots were abandoned and some were eventually used again as farmland.</p>
<p>After World War II, many of these titles were cleared and lot sizes were revised to provide for single-family homes with 40-55 foot frontages. This second housing boom was the definitive one for Skokie; postwar prosperity, population growth, and the rise of the automobile created demand for the kind of single-family housing Skokie was in a position to supply. Skokie’s population in 1940 was 7,172; by 1950 it was 14,752. Once again, transportation was a factor in growth: the Edens Expressway, which opened in 1951, provided a major route to the city for burgeoning automobile traffic from the suburbs.</p>
<p>This part of the story is not unique to Skokie; many formerly rural communities grew into suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The development of the suburb and the automobile, the growth in homeownership and geographic mobility, are all extremely important parts of the mid-century American experience, and the histories of individual communities contribute to our understanding of broad historic trends.</p>
<p>Histories of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/pfpl/search/">planned communities like Park Forest</a> have found a place in the Illinois Digital Archives, and Sears homes have been documented in the <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/newgailbord01/search/searchterm/Sears%2C%20Roebuck%20and%20Company/field/organi/mode/exact/conn/and">Elgin Sears House Research Project</a> from Gail Borden Public Library. The Thomas Ford Memorial Library, in partnership with Western Springs Historical Society, has digitized photographs of <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/tfm/search/">historically significant homes</a> in Western Springs.</p>
<p><u>References</u></p>
<p>Beaudette, E. Palma. <em>Niles Township, Niles Center, Morton Grove, Niles Village, and Tessville</em>. Chicago, 1916</p>
<p>Jackson, Kenneth T. <em>Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.</p>
<p><em>Local Community Fact Book: Chicago Metropolitan Area</em>. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.</p>
<p>Martinson, Tom. <em>American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Postwar Suburbia</em>. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.</p>
<p>United States. Census Bureau. <em>Census 2000 American Fact Finder, Skokie Village, Illinois Fact Sheet</em>. Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.</p>
<p>Whittingham, Richard. <em>Skokie, 1888-1988: A Centennial History</em>. Skokie: Village of Skokie, 1988.</p>
Still Image
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Title
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Truck Farmers with produce, early 1900s
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of truck farmers with produce in B. Doetsch, Truck Gardener, Gross Point truck, probably in Niles Center, Illinois (Skokie).
<a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/id/1681">View the full record</a>.
Date
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c. early 1900s
Medium
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black and white photographs
Source
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Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Is Part Of
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This item is part of the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/skokiepo02/search/searchterm/AHIS*"><b>At Home in Skokie</b></a> digital collection in the <a href="https://cdm16614.contentdm.oclc.org/">Illinois Digital Archive</a>.
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Skokie--Illinois--United States
Rights
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Copyright Undetermined https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Access Rights
Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies.
If you would like a reproduction or a high-resolution image of this item, submit a <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/imagerequest.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Historical Archive Image Usage Request</a> to the <a href="https://www.skokieparks.org/skokie-heritage-museum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Skokie Heritage Museum</a>.
1900s (1900-1909)
AHIS-Before World War I
AHISphot
At Home in Skokie Digital Collection
Niles Center History
real estate development
skokie history