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 1869-1944 
 A Look Backward- Ahead 
 
 A BOOKLET PUBLISHED BY 
 THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF 
 WINNETKA COMMEMORATING 
 THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF 
 THE GRANTING OF A SPECIAL 
 CHARTER TO THE VILLAGE 
 
 MARCH 10, 1944 
 
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 FOREWORD 
 
 On March 10, 1869, the Village of Winnetka 
 was incorporated through grant of a special 
 charter by the State Legislature. In the inter- 
 vening 75 years it has assumed a distinguished 
 place among smaller American communities. It 
 has made numerous and significant contributions 
 to progress in civic, educational and sociological 
 fields. 
 
 Certainly, it is the desire of all who live in 
 Winnetka to keep it the kind of a community 
 it is and has been. This may be increasingly 
 difficult as population grows less stable; as we 
 reach the end of our land resources and call 
 develops for their more intensive use; as metro- 
 politan forces impinge increasingly upon our 
 now suburban atmosphere. 
 
 In this booklet, commemorative of our 75th 
 anniversary as an incorporated community, the 
 purpose is not so much to review the details of 
 the past, interesting and colorful as they are, as 
 to stress the community's distinguishing features 
 and to interpret the reasons for their develop- 
 ment. Only through understanding these features 
 and their background can we appreciate our 
 good fortune in inheriting them from those who 
 preceded us and our responsibility for carrying 
 them forward to those who succeed us. 
 
 A. E. Bryson 
 
 Y ill age President
 
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 A LOOK AT WHAT WE HAVE 
 
 As mid-western communities go, Winnetka is fairly 
 old, having been organized as a village under its spe- 
 cial charter in 1869. It has chosen to retain its "vil- 
 lage" designation because of certain advantages which 
 its special charter provides over more recently enacted 
 general legislation governing the affairs of most com- 
 munities of its size. Aside from this, however, Win- 
 ■d netka cherishes and seeks to maintain its "village" 
 S atmosphere as a counterpoise to the bigness and 
 o metropolitan aspects of neighboring Chicago.
 
 "Winnetka" means "Beautiful Land" in the Indian 
 whence the word came. Winnetka is that — a tree 
 studded community of well kept homes, located on 
 the shore of Lake Michigan twenty miles north of 
 Chicago. Population 13,000, it is one of a series of 
 suburban communities which extend from the north 
 limits of Chicago to Waukegan some thirty miles 
 distant. Most of its adult male citizens, largely busi- 
 ness and professional men, shuttle back and forth daily 
 between Chicago, the source of their livelihood, and 
 Winnetka, their place of residence. 
 
 The economic status of its people is above average, 
 with little or no poverty, some very wealthy families, 
 and the great majority in what, for want of better 
 designation, would probably be termed the upper- 
 middle class. Educationally, the community is also 
 above average with a good part of its family heads, 
 both husbands and wives, possessing college degrees. 
 Religiously, it compares favorably with other similar 
 communities, and in its philanthropic and charitable 
 interests, both in the home town and in Chicago, it 
 enjoys a well earned reputation for generosity. 
 
 Winnetka's government, like that of most small 
 communities, consists of a Village Council, a Park 
 Board, a School Board and a Library Board. Its 
 
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 village government operates under the Council-Man- 
 ager Plan, the community having been among the 
 first to adopt that now widely recognized and broadly 
 accepted forward step in municipal government. Like- 
 wise, the Village was among the first to acquire and 
 operate its own water and electric utilities and its 
 efficient and successful conduct of both has frequently 
 been pointed to as an example of the advantages of 
 municipal ownership, although it is rather an example 
 of honest and efficient local government. Operation 
 of its utilities is distinctive, moreover, in that rates 
 are maintained at the level of those of neighboring 
 privately owned utilities. This policy is adhered to in 
 order to avoid any suggestion of unfair competition 
 with private industry and also to earn a satisfactory 
 return on the investment for the benefit of taxpayers, 
 the owners of the property, rather than being operated 
 mainly for the benefit of consumers who may, or may 
 not, be taxpayers. 
 
 Winnetka's schools have for many years enjoyed 
 national recognition because of the pioneering work 
 and able support given over a long period to progres- 
 sive education by Winnetka leadership. Interested 
 students of the Winnetka schools became so numer- 
 ous that an instruction course delineating the basic
 
 philosophy and methods of the Winnetka system was 
 instituted in 1932 and has since been continuously 
 maintained in Winnetka; its graduates have carried 
 the Winnetka program far afield. Winnetka's library, 
 with almost two-thirds of the population registered as 
 patrons, evidences the community's interest in educa- 
 tional, cultural and recreational reading, and provides 
 an important rallying point for the many who share 
 this salutary common interest. 
 
 With its lake and park facilities, Winnetka is for- 
 tunately situated for outdoor recreation. Its park 
 area amounts to 14.9 acres per 1,000 population, 
 which compares with a national average of about 3 
 acres for cities of 10,000 to 25,000 population. Win- 
 netka's park system embraces 26 park areas, chief 
 of which is the 142 acres "Playfield", now supple- 
 mented by an even larger adjacent Forest Preserve 
 (owned by Cook County) . This latter, an area of 
 lagoons, marshes and wild life, not only provides 
 exceptional recreational facilities but sets up a perma- 
 nent buffer between Winnetka and industrial develop- 
 ment to the west. The Playfield includes an 18-hole 
 golf course, where villagers may play for a small 
 annual fee ; it also includes tennis courts, athletic fields 
 and a lighted soft-ball diamond. The Park Board 
 
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 operates three bathing beaches on Lake Michigan, 
 conveniently located for easy access from all sections 
 of the Village. , 
 
 Winnetka's Community House, reputedly the first 
 of its type in the country and the first to use the 
 designation "Community House", has served as a 
 model for hundreds of like institutions which have 
 developed since its founding in 1911. Here centers the 
 group life of the Village. In all, 70 different organiza- 
 tions make this their headquarters, including such 
 diverse groups as the American Legion, the Rotary 
 Club, the North Shore Art League, the Winnetka 
 Drama Club, the Boy Scouts, the North Shore Choral 
 Society, the North Shore Garden Club, etc. The 
 rambling, much-used structure includes a large gym- 
 nasium, motion picture theater, bowling alleys, an art 
 studio, two large assembly halls and some 30 smaller 
 rooms designed for groups of every size and character. 
 Recently its large basement has been attractively re- 
 modeled as a canteen, with a dance floor, "coke-bar", 
 and tables with a seating capacity for over 250, thus 
 meeting a real need in the recreational life of the 
 young people of the community. Community House 
 is administered by a full-time director and staff, under 
 the supervision of a Board of Governors chosen in 
 
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 turn by the Community Council. The latter, com- 
 posed of representatives of all clubs and organized 
 groups in the Village, including the governing bodies, 
 the churches and the schools, provides a responsive 
 medium for discussion and disposition of community 
 problems which do not fall naturally under the juris- 
 diction of the regular elective boards. 
 
 Winnetka's churches are fewer in number than in 
 most communities of its size, which is a designed 
 development rather than a reflection of religious 
 indifference. In addition to the Episcopal, Catholic 
 and Scientist churches, there are two small Lutheran 
 churches and one large Congregational, the latter 
 being in the nature of a union or community church 
 with 28 denominations represented in its member- 
 ship. Winnetka's churches are well housed, ably 
 staffed and uniformly more prosperous and well at- 
 tended than is frequently the case, partly due to avoid- 
 ance of duplication of plant and overlapping of effort 
 customarily found where each of numerous religious 
 denominations struggles to maintain its own separate 
 establishment. 
 
 The financial record of the Village and of its various 
 boards attests the quality of their administration. The 
 Village government operated throughout the depres- 
 
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 sion years without the use of red ink; its assets, both 
 fixed and current, now aggregate about $434 millions 
 and, except for indebtedness incurred in the recently 
 completed and long-cherished grade separation pro- 
 ject traversing the length of the Village, it has no other 
 direct bonded debt. It has maintained an unbroken 
 record of punctual payments of all obligations, includ- 
 ing special assessment bonds. The Village Hall (an 
 imposing $250,000 structure) was built out of surplus 
 earnings of the utilities and about $300,000 of the 
 Village's share of the grade separation project came 
 from the same source; since 1918, the electric plant 
 has paid $1,822,115 in dividends to the General Fund 
 of the Village. Winnetka's over-all tax rate is consid- 
 erably lower than that of Chicago. The rate of its 
 own taxing boards only — the Village, the school and 
 park boards — is in line with that of neighboring com- 
 munities though it includes the annual payment of 
 grade separation bonds and interest, which the others 
 do not have. The Village operates under strict 
 budgetary control; employees are chosen and con- 
 tinue to serve wholly on a merit basis, and with the 
 incentive of a liberal retirement plan. All purchases 
 are made on a competitive basis, and where advan- 
 tage results from joint buying or operation, the Vil- 
 
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 lage Board joins with other local boards, and in some 
 cases with neighboring villages, to effect economies or 
 to render service that might otherwise be prohibitive 
 in cost. All Village accounts are audited semi-annu- 
 ally by independent certified public accountants. 
 
 While citing a few of the institutions and achieve- 
 ments of Winnetka as evidence of its good citizenship, 
 it may also be in order to recount a few things it does 
 not have — and the absence of which is no less sig- 
 nificant than its assets. Winnetka has no taverns, nor 
 is the sale of liquor permitted. It has no commercial 
 movies within its corporate limits ; in fact, no commer- 
 cial amusements of any kind. It has no serious crime 
 and in February, 1943, it was one of only four 
 American cities among the 388 in the 10,000 to 
 25,000 population class which rounded out a four 
 year record of no fatal traffic accidents. It has no 
 "right" and "wrong" side of the tracks. It has, as 
 previously noted, no operating deficits. Most sig- 
 nificantly, and of this more will be said later, it has 
 no partisan politics in its local elections. 
 
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 HOW WE ACQUIRED WHAT WE HAVE 
 
 What, chiefly, is responsible for the many civic assets 
 which have so long distinguished this community and 
 made possible its numerous significant contributions 
 to municipal progress? 
 
 The answer to this question is probably not to be 
 found in any single factor, though it reflects prin- 
 cipally the obvious truth that good citizens make good 
 communities. As to why Winnetka is fortunate in 
 having so large a proportion of good citizens is not 
 so easily answered, though important in any effort to 
 
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 interpret the character and development of the com- 
 munity. 
 
 Winnetka in its formative years was, and is now, a 
 village of homes. It has no industrial development, 
 few apartments, rather restricted commercial activity, 
 but lots of children and dogs. Families looking for 
 a good place to raise children were quite naturally 
 attracted to Winnetka. A village having as its primary 
 objective an environment favorable to home-life, with 
 special emphasis on the needs of children, has a good 
 start toward decency, shared responsibilities and good 
 government. Thus, by a process of natural selection, 
 good citizens were added year by year to the original 
 nucleus. Like attracted like, and good citizenship, 
 already in the making, became firmly implanted. 
 
 Further analyzing the reasons for Winnetka's prog- 
 ress in developing its own good society, considerable 
 credit must go to a group of able and far-sighted 
 individuals who, in advance of its major growth and 
 since, established its patterns of government, charted 
 its course, and initiated its major forms and institu- 
 tions. It was they who sponsored the establishment 
 of the local utilities as municipal projects at a time 
 when such an undertaking was a somewhat untried 
 experiment. It was they who, before city planning 
 
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 became accepted procedure, created a Winnetka Plan 
 Commission and shortly afterward engaged the serv- 
 ices of an eminent consultant to develop a compre- 
 hensive Village Plan, which has been the guide for 
 all subsequent major public improvements — most of 
 which have since been realized. It was they who 
 advocated the employment of a Village Manager, 
 again before that became widely accepted practice. 
 It was they who, with the coming of zoning, quickly 
 saw its advantages and were instrumental in its early 
 adoption by the Village, thus perpetuating the com- 
 munity's residential character and stabilizing its prop- 
 erty values. It was they who conceived, and brought 
 into being. Community House with its wholesome and 
 unifying influence in the life of the Village. It was 
 they who steered away from the divisive consequences 
 of denominational competition in the Community's 
 church life and developed instead the few strong 
 institutions which now occupy the field. It was they 
 who paved the way for the installation of the then 
 "new-fangled" progressive school system. It was they 
 who developed the unique "caucus" system of nomi- 
 nating candidates for public office which has con- 
 tributed so importantly to the uninterrupted good 
 government which the Village has since enjoyed. 
 
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 Thus Winnetka's progress has been evolutionary. 
 All of its characteristics were not acquired at one 
 time, nor were they inspired by the same individuals. 
 The "they" to whom reference is made above were 
 not the same individuals but have changed with the 
 years. Many of the original group have died or moved 
 away, but always, because of the contributions of 
 those who have gone before, new men and women 
 have replaced them, each seeking to enrich the heritage 
 passed on to them. 
 
 Several other factors contributed to this evolution. 
 Much credit, for instance, must be given to the capable 
 administrative staff continuously headed during the 
 past twenty-six years by our able Village Manager. 
 The Council-Manager Plan in itself has contributed 
 importantly to the good government enjoyed in the 
 Village. With major responsibility for the actual run- 
 ning of the Village placed in the hands of a trained 
 and qualified administrator, leaving only the legisla- 
 tive and policy making functions to the Council, it 
 became possible to enlist capable and qualified citi- 
 zens to serve without compensation on that body. 
 
 Certainly the cohesive and somewhat uniform qual- 
 ity of citizenship resulting from the process of natural 
 selection previously mentioned has had its part in 
 
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 Winnetka's sustained interest in civic affairs. But the 
 homogeneity of the community is attributable to other 
 factors as well. To those already mentioned must be 
 added another, seemingly indigenous to Winnetka, 
 namely, its community-wide Neighborhood Circles 
 started 30 years ago and still active and flourishing. 
 Although directed from the Community Church, they 
 are in no sense denominational. There are 20 such 
 Circles in the Village, one extending into each section. 
 Membership is open to all women in the Village and 
 includes all creeds and classes. Meetings are held once 
 a month and may be merely in the nature of a social 
 gathering, or may have a more serious purpose such 
 as sewing for charity. 
 
 To promote further the consciousness of individual 
 responsibiUty for the community's welfare, each new 
 family head receives a letter from the Village Presi- 
 dent shortly after application is made for water and 
 electric service. In this communication, he is wel- 
 comed, advised briefly of the ideals of the Village 
 and urged to participate in its life and responsibilities. 
 Along with the letter is enclosed the latest annual 
 report of the Village which sets forth additional infor- 
 mation about the background and current affairs of 
 the Village. In the fall, the whole family, along with 
 
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 all other newcomers, is invited by the Community 
 Council to Community House, to get better acquainted 
 among themselves and with the life of the community. 
 At this "Winnetka-on-Parade", all group activities are 
 represented and seek to acquaint new residents with 
 their character and objectives. Sooner or later, and 
 more probably sooner, the newcomer will be asked 
 to promote, or at least share in, some of these com- 
 munity activities. To the customary list are now 
 added the host of war-time activities — and all with 
 the intensity that goes with a community never satis- 
 fied to do an average job but priding itself always on 
 doing more than its share. Thus the effort is made to 
 draw everybody — old and new — into the life of the 
 community, to share its responsibilities and to per- 
 petuate its ideals. 
 
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 ONE OF OUR IMPORTANT SAFEGUARDS 
 
 Even where the tradition of good citizenship is well 
 grounded and the sense of individual responsibility 
 highly developed, a dependable mechanism for ex- 
 pressing the community's will for good government 
 must be available. In Winnetka this has been achieved 
 over the past 29 years through its unique "Caucus" 
 system for nominating candidates for local office. 
 The basic plank of the Caucus, and the one chiefly 
 responsible for its continued success, is that "the office 
 seeks the man, never the man the office." Thus nomi- 
 
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 nation for office carries with it a degree of public 
 recognition which is quite at variance with the stigma 
 that sometimes attaches to self-initiated political as- 
 pirations. Through the Caucus the community is 
 enabled to draft virtually whomever it chooses for 
 public office. Moreover, since nomination is, or at 
 least always has been, the equivalent of election, the 
 necessity for an election campaign by the candidate 
 is eliminated, serving as a further inducement for 
 attracting qualified men and women to stand for 
 election. 
 
 The Caucus Committee, the main spring of the 
 Caucus system, is chosen annually. Each new Com- 
 mittee is initiated by the out-going Committee through 
 the designation of a Caucus Nominating Committee 
 of 12 members chosen from outside its membership, 
 thus eliminating any tendency toward self-perpetua- 
 tion. The members of the Nominating Committee 
 are selected to give representation to each precinct in 
 the Village and may not name any of their own 
 number to the Caucus Committee. 
 
 The Nominating Committee, after careful delibera- 
 tion, designates its nominees reporting directly to the 
 Caucus meeting rather than to the Caucus Committee. 
 Two members, sometimes three, are chosen from each 
 
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 of the 12 precincts in the Village and 5 are chosen 
 as representatives-at-large. A few members of the 
 expiring Caucus Committee may be selected to assure 
 familiarity with procedure but the large majority are 
 entirely new. They are chosen for their demonstrated 
 interest in community affairs and their known sym- 
 pathy with the established procedures, traditions and 
 ideals of the Village. If and when accepted at the 
 general caucus meeting held in advance of the 
 election in April, they then become the Caucus 
 Committee for the ensuing year. 
 
 The Caucus Committee, thus chosen, meets in 
 the fall of the year, elects its chairman, secretary and 
 treasurer and proceeds to organize into various sub- 
 committees — Publicity, Finance, Platform, Candi- 
 dates, etc., so as effectively to discharge its duties. 
 The principal task is, of course, the selection of suit- 
 able candidates for the offices to be filled at the spring 
 election. Originally these consisted only of the Village 
 and Library officials but the results there were so 
 satisfactory that, at the request of voters, selection 
 of the candidates for the School and Park Boards 
 were later added. Suggestions both as to platform 
 and candidates are invited from all organizations in 
 the Village and from individual citizens as well. Pos- 
 
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 sible candidates are checked from all angles but fitness 
 is the one final determinant for selection. Partisan 
 politics does not enter into the picture at all. 
 
 After protracted deliberation, the Caucus Com- 
 mittee makes its decisions. It then obtains the consents 
 to serve of the candidates chosen, also their signed 
 agreements to conform to the platform declarations, 
 after which the nominees are announced and a public 
 caucus meeting for their ratification or rejection is 
 called. The general Caucus takes much the form of 
 the old New England town meeting. Out-going offi- 
 cials report on their trusteeship and discussion is 
 invited. The Caucus Committee then offers its plat- 
 form for approval, reports on its finances and finally 
 presents its nominees for office. Opportunity is al- 
 lowed for the presentation of alternative nominations, 
 though rarely have any been offered. If and when 
 the Caucus Committee's nominees are approved by 
 the general caucus group, they then become the official 
 candidates of the Caucus Party and, in the absence 
 of successful competition, are elected at the annual 
 election in April. That the Caucus candidates have 
 been consistently elected is evidence of its painstaking 
 choice of nominees and reflects the community's ap- 
 proval of this method of choosing its public servants. 
 
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 LOOKING TO THE FUTURE 
 
 In a world characterized by drastic and far-reaching 
 changes, Winnetka cannot hope to remain immune, 
 nor does it want to do so. No thoughtful citizen would 
 maintain that the community has solved all of its 
 problems. Moreover, the willingness to change, to 
 experiment, to accept new ideas has been chiefly 
 responsible for development into the kind of a com- 
 munity it is. The principal effort in the future, as in 
 the past, must be to attract and develop good citizens. 
 
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 realizing that in their hands the problenis of the 
 moment will be wisely solved. 
 
 Through our schools and our churches, and, most 
 importantly, in our homes, our young people must 
 be brought to an understanding of the privileges we 
 enjoy and their part in safeguarding these assets for 
 the future. Our adult population must never be 
 allowed to tire of its responsibilities and especially 
 must our newcomers be brought to an understanding 
 of the community's ideals and traditions and their 
 part in maintaining them. 
 
 More is at stake in good local government than the 
 individual community's own welfare. If we cannot 
 create a good society in smaller units there is little 
 hope that we can do so in larger ones. If we can do 
 neither, there are always those waiting to take over 
 the responsibility in their own way, which quite obvi- 
 ously will not be in the Winnetka way. If, on the 
 other hand, we can demonstrate our capacity for self- 
 government at the local level, we need have little 
 fear that we shall lose it higher up. 
 
 On the north wall of the Council Chamber in the 
 Village Hall appears the oath taken by the youth 
 of the ancient city of Athens as they assumed the 
 responsibilities of citizenship. This oath, reproduced 
 
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 on a following page, effectively expresses the spirit 
 of loyalty and faithfulness which alone will serve to 
 perpetuate the heritage our community enjoys after 
 75 years of corporate existence. Its wording may well 
 serve as our guide for the future — just as its substance 
 assuredly animated those who pioneered the way. 
 
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 IMPORTANT DATES 
 
 IN WINNETKA'S MUNICIPAL HISTORY 
 
 1836 First Government Survey of Area. 
 
 1837 First White Settlers. 
 
 1850 New Trier Township Organized. 
 
 1853 Original Winnetka Subdivision. 
 
 1854 Northwestern Railroad Built Through Winnetka. 
 1859 First School District Organized. 
 
 1869 Village Charter Granted. 
 
 1869 Land Donated for Village Common. 
 
 1870 Plat of Village Recorded. 
 
 1870 Academy Hall Erected (Now the Fire Station). 
 
 1872 First Sewer Constructed. 
 
 1884 Public Library Organized. 
 
 1886 First Concrete Sidewalk Constructed. 
 
 1893 Waterworks Installed. 
 
 1895 First Macadam Pavements. 
 
 1899 Electric Railroad Built. 
 
 1899 New Trier High School Established. 
 
 1899 Old Horace Mann School Opened (Since demol- 
 
 ished) . 
 
 1900 Municipal Electric Plant Built. 
 1900 Local Telephone Service Introduced. 
 
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 1904 Winnetka Park District Organized. 
 
 1908 Franchise Granted to Gas Company 
 
 1910 First Section of Present Library Built. 
 
 1911 Community House Established. 
 
 1913 First Section of Winnetka Playfield Acquired. 
 
 1915 Village Caucus Plan Established. 
 
 1915 Council-Manager Plan Adopted. 
 
 1915 First Separate Storm Sewers Built. 
 
 1917 First Plan Commission Appointed. 
 
 1918 Public Schools Adopted Progressive Methods. 
 
 1920 Skokie School (Junior High) Built by Popular 
 
 Subscription. 
 
 1921 Report of Plan Commission on Winnetka Plan. 
 
 1922 Zoning Ordinance Adopted. 
 1922 Water Filtration Plant Built. 
 1925 Present Village Hall Built. 
 
 1925 Old Village Hall Remodeled as a Fire Station. 
 
 1925 Municipal Service Yard Built. 
 
 1927 Full-time Health Officer Employed. 
 
 1935 Official Village Plan Adopted. 
 
 1937 Municipal Electric Plant Enlarged to Present 
 
 Capacity. 
 
 1938 Grade Separation Project Started (Completed 
 
 1941-42). 
 
 1940 Crow Island School Built. 
 
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