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Tag Archives: The Great Depresion

The original Airbnb: Libertyville, Mundelein, and the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition

Welcome back to my first post of 2019! While talking with a coworker about a potential topic for a post, she mentioned that she had just finished putting new file folders into our history collection, and suggested I take a look at the file on the Libertyville Business Men’s Association. There was only a single…

February 15, 2019 in The Past Is Present.

Mundelein: A history. Part Three: Hard times and World Wars, 1930-1950

Welcome back to what is possibly the most disaster-filled entry in my series on the history of Mundelein! At the end of my last entry, Mundelein was on top of the world: with miles of newly paved roads, the addition of another railroad line running through the town, and Samuel Insull himself giving the dedication…

May 31, 2017 in The Past Is Present.

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