A few years ago I came across a quote about Samuel Insull that struck me: “The town of Libertyville, Ill. was a one-man town, and Samuel Insull once a powerful utilities magnate, was the man. Now that he has been expatriated there is a gap in the community where he was once hailed as the…
In October I delivered a presentation entitled “1914: Libertyville 100 Years Ago”. At that program, an audience member asked me if the Libertyville One-Mile Track was in operation during the time. It was, but there were not many articles in the newspaper about the race track in 1914, so I had not included it in…
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