Category: History

Currently, stormwater detention tanks are being planned for installation at Wilmette Village parks, including at Community Playfields. A resident has mounted a campaign to save the “old growth forest” of cottonwoods at the park, so I decided to do a little research into the history of the trees …

Among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Egypt has the Great Pyramid of Giza, Greece has the Temple of Artemis. And Chicago…? We have the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, once considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of American Engineering. Here’s the section of the …

While talking to civil engineers to research this blog–and even when talking to plumbers about sewer issues at my house–they almost always launch into a spiel that goes something like this: Wilmette’s sewers are old, with sections dating back to the 1920s and ’50s. The village has changed …