Good Neighbors: Making a Difference, 2024

When the Lake County Symposium announced its 2024 theme: Good Neighbors Making a Difference we realized we could not confine the discussion to just one person. It was difficult to select one person, event or group for each category. Join our Zoom presentation, International Archives Day, June 9, 2024 via Zoom to learn more about this exhibit. Email the Historical Society for a link or any questions! You can also telephone 847.432.7090. Funded by the Community Foundation of Highland Park.

Featured Events

Apr

3

Preserving Family Heirloom Recipes – How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions
Presented by Valerie J. Frey Heirloom dishes and family food traditions are rich sources of nostalgia and provide vivid ways to learn about our families’ past, yet they can be problematic. Many family recipes and food traditions are never documented in written or photographic form, existing only as unwritten know-how and lore that vanishes when a cook dies. Even when recipes are written down, they often fail to give the tricks and tips that would allow another cook to accurately replicate the dish. Unfortunately, recipes are also often damaged as we plunk Grandma’s handwritten cards on the countertop next to a steaming pot or a spattering mixer, shortening their lives.
Feb

20

‘Food in the Midwest: More Interesting Than You May Think,’ with Cynthia Clampitt
The history of the Midwest is remarkable for many reasons, not least of which is the diversity of its population, and therefore of its regional cuisine. Everyone contributed to what was developing, from the Ojibwe harvesting wild rice in Minnesota to Belgian hoteliers in Chicago inventing new dishes.
Jan

19

Grand Concert Sesquicentennial with Elijah Gray’s Electro Music by Telegraph, Inventions of Electrifying and Broadcasting Music Began in Highland Park, Illinois
Grand Concert Sesquicentennial Electro Music by Telegraph: On December 29, 1874,...