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Arthur Miller 's "Art Class" on the train with  Pete Jansons as Art teaches Pete about the Railroads of the North Shore 

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Arthur Miller drives his tour bus on Sheridan Road with Pete Jansons riding shotgun and our 5 stop Tour ends in Lake Bluff.

We started our Tour in Chicago, Lake Michigan/Circle Dr up Sheridan Road, through Evanston past Northwestern University, through Wilmette (No Man's land), Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, Highland Park, Ravinia, Highwood, Fort Sheridan, Lake Forest, and finally Lake Bluff.

Notes:

• Crab Tree Farm
• Schlitz Beer?
• Sample of the Bean
• Armour Estate
• Universal Oil
• The Wedding movie from the 70's
• Shore Acres Country Club
• Great Lakes Naval Training Station
• Moffett Road
• Fort Dearborn affair

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Arthur Miller drives his tour bus on Sheridan Road with Pete Jansons riding shotgun through Lake Forest

Notes:

• Starting in Lake Forest City Line on Wesley Road
• Lake Forest College Campus
• 425 N Sheridan Road
• Student Affairs Building
• 570 N Sheridan Road
• 725 N Sheridan Road
• 644 Deerpath Old Boarding House Lake Forest Academy
• Benedict House
• 799 N Sheridan Road
• Alfred Grainger's House
• Reid Family House
• Lake Forest Cemetery

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Arthur Miller drives his tour bus on Sheridan Road with Pete Jansons riding shotgun through Lake Forest

Notes:

• Fort Sheridan
• Great Lakes Training Station
• Highwood
• We stop just as we get into Lake Forest

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Arthur Miller took a tour group, in Chicago for a week from the Vero Beach art museum in Florida, they thought traveling this link in the Lake Michigan Circle tour was an unexpected highlight.

The southern section, through south Winnetka, is mostly straight streets and right-angled turns along flat or very gently changing terrain. This continues the lower Chicago section of Sheridan Rd. at the north end of the 1950s extension of Lincoln Park and DS/LSD.

The road was organized in the 1890s to facilitate military movement to and from the 1887-launched Fort Sheridan. It soon was a pleasure drive through the lakefront suburbs north of the city. See the excellent, still standard Machel H. Ebner, Creating Chicago’s North Shore: A Suburban History (1988).

Prologue,

starting with Chicago and Edward Bennett’s Grant Park. DuSable LSD

Lake Point Tower and Navy Pier

860-880 Mies apt. building, ca. 1950, then 1900-910, 1955, with air conditioning and tinted

windows

Gold Coast

999 E. DS/LSD

Drake Hotel, 1920

Apt. buildings where lake breezes beat back stockyards odors, 1910s-1950s (air cond.)

Lincoln Park

Monroe Harbor

Apt. buildings, 1920s, 1950s

Carillon tower, Edwin Hill Clark in north Lincoln Park

End of drive at beach, turn right—past post-Depression/War high rise apt. towers, further north with central air S

Interspersed with older mansions--Maher, Flanders & Zimmerman.

Loyola University, with Mundelein incorporated (Jesuit)

7415 Sheridan, Emil Bach house, 1915 by Frank Lloyd Wright

Starting in Evanston,

747 N. Sheridan, at Clark Park, Shaw’s 1915 Harry A. Swiggart house originally on the lake, just east of the Main St. stops neighborhood on the water. The house is brick Tudor with a classic segmental arch over the doorway.

1201 N. Sheridan Rd. the Prairie School 1912 Spencer & Powers Nathan Williams house.

Long lakefront park

Northwestern (Methodist, founded 1851)

Entry to landfill east campus with a visitor center, north to Pick-Steiger Hall and new business

School, etc.

At the corner of Chicago Ave., 1950s Millar Chapel, beautiful modern stained glass.

1867 Randall building in yellow limestone, pre-Chicago Fire

The 1930 Deering Library, east end of the lawn, large collegiate gothic building by James Gamble

Rogers

Technical Institute

Second Patton Gym

Holabird & Roche fraternity houses

Lighthouse and rescued Evanston Art Center building

Wilmette

Behai Temple

Site of former Benjamin Marshall studio at waterfront

Bridge over sanitary canal water intake, leading down to Illinois River early 1900s

Gilson Park

Row of mansions

“No man’s land” unincorporated originally

High rises, including purple 1960s Huzgach & Hill

1925 Plaza del Lago shopping center modeled on LF’s Market Square, original buildings a

classic style, though with Iberian/southwestern flair. But look for echoes of Shaw’s details

on tower

Kenilworth

Kenilworth Ave. light, on the southeast corner, a large 1930s Hemphill residence with a Charles

Wagstaff landscape originally, by the 1940s home of the DeWitt O’Kieffes, 2nd to

Ad wiz Leo Burnett, book collector.

Winnetka

Mansions along the lake, notably

Tom Beeby’s Ryan estate, a French chateau

Former W. Clement Stone Mediterranean red-tile roofed compound.

Behind a long, thin yellow limestone wall, Robert A. M. Stern’s interpretation of a

Classic, Adler-like North Shore mansion, early 2000s (New Classicism)

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Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro and Professor Gary Saul Morson are the Authors of Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us join Skoo Walker and Pete Jansons to chat about their latest book as well as other issues facing society 

Quotes:

GSM " You cannot make people less extreme by insulting them" (Hillary Clinton)

GSM/MS "Trump was a symptom, not a cause"

GSM "You look for the best argument from the other side, not the worst"

MS/GSM/Tolstoy/Game of Thrones "In a world filled with uncertainty what matters most is not the plant but alertness... And for Alertness you need sleep"

MS "  NU is 75k All in and 1/3 of NU Students pay less than 10% of that price. 10-15% of all private/non for profit/universities pay full price tuition

GSM "It would not surprise me if in 10 years we will be going to Russia for freedom... not because they are freer but because we will be worse off than they will be"

MS "Jan 6th will be the low point of America for generations"

GSM "My job is to get kids to love literature"

MS " Blanket forgiving of Student Debt would be very regressive"

Topics:

• President Schapiro will be ending his 22 year run as NU President next year (when the average is 6.5 years)
• The decline in respectable dialogue
• What event can bring the USA together?
• Liberal Bias by professors?
• MOOC Massive Open Online Courses
• Flipped Classroom
• Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities
• 1.6 Billion in Student Loan Debt

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691214917/minds-wide-shut

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183220/cents-and-sensibility

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Roger Sosa Executive Director Evanston Chamber of Commerce came on the show to talk with Pete Jansons about:

• 100 Year Anniversary!!!
• COVID experience and learnings
• ***NEW SMALL BUSINESS $100 SPECIAL TO CELEBRATE 100 YEARS IN THE COMMUNITY
• MashUp 2021! Register Now for This Extraordinary Fall Event You’re invited to the event of the year: MashUp 2021! September 29 | 6:00-9:00 p.m. PALM HOUSE, 619 Howard Street Evanston

Your Evanston Chamber Staff:

• Roger Sosa Executive Director Roger@evchamber.com 847-328-1500
• Angela Iantosca Membership & Developments Director angela@evchamber.com 847-328-1500
• Sara Jane Abbott Director of Marketing SaraJane@evchamber.com 847-328-1500

https://business.evchamber.com/member/newmemberapp/

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Matilda the Musical

September 24 – October 3, 2021

Northbrook Theatre, 3323 Walters Ave, Northbrook, IL 60062

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Author Susan Kelsey joins North Shore History Legend Arthur Miller to talk about her book "Billy Caldwell (1780-1841): Chicago and the Great Lakes Trail"  

Notes:

• it took 25 years to write!!
• has a movie coming out next year!!
• worked with Arthur Miller on several books about Lake Forest and the North shore
• trail tree park
• North Shore Line Railroad
• Newberry Library

https://susankelsey.com/books-1

https://susankelsey.com/susan-l-kelsey

https://www.amazon.com/Billy-Caldwell-1780-1841-Chicago-Great/dp/1634991869/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=billy+caldwell&qid=1571859021&s=books&sr=1-1

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Greg and Dawn Barnum from Beef4Hunger.org came on the North Shore Podcast with Skoo Walker and Pete Jansons to discuss their mission To provide fresh beef for America’s hungry through a network of food banks and hunger relief organizations. 

Beef 4 Hunger is the only organization that exclusively provides fresh beef high in protein to food banks to feed America’s hungry. Beef is the most difficult product for food banks to get, and the most desirable. At a cost of approximately .50 cents per meal, every dollar helps put  meals on the table for a hungry family.

Notes:

• Lake Bluff Brewing Co. Block Party Fundraiser this Saturday, August 28, 2021,  5:00pm - 10:00pm for Beef4Hunger.org
• Blocking off the street, serving some grub, sling a coupla two tree beers, showcase some live music by the Hellhounds, and all for the amazing cause that is Beef 4 Hunger! 

https://www.lbbrew.com/events/2018/2/28/beef-4-hunger-charity-block-party-with-the-hellhounds

• Notorious Lake Bluff Rib Fest Saturday, October 5, 2019, 10:00am -  5:30pm

https://www.beef4hunger.org/ https://www.beef4hunger.org/donate/

Every $.50 donated provides a fresh beef meal for a hungry person.

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