POSITION PAPER: PROPOSED FOREST PARK MASTER PLAN
Board of the Lake Forest Foundation for Historic Preservation (.pdf)

The January 2011 issue of Chicago Magazine (a Tribune Company publication), names Gunny Harboe one of six Chicagoans of the year. Harboe is the preservation architect who conducted our $50,000 Historic Structure Report study of the 1900-built Lake Forest train station, 2008-09.  In 2010 this superb, definitive report leveraged $1.2 million in city, Metra, and ITEP (federal) grants, the last one being $835,000.  This sum will pay for nearly all of the first-phase essential exterior construction in what is projected to be ultimately a $3 million project (HVAC, restrooms, interior).  Work begins in the summer of 2011. Now the Foundation seeks to restore its project fund that provided the $50,000 study making possible this twenty-fold return of federal tax dollars to Lake Forest! Read More

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Henry P. Wheeler Remembered by Lake Forest Preservation Foundation

Henry P. Wheeler will be remembered for his leadership as President of the Lake Forest Preservation Foundation
from 1986 to 1988, a time of growth and change. He will be recognized also for his enduring dedication to the
principles of preservation.

During his term, the Lake Forest Railroad Restoration Project was completed. It received a Hometown Governor's
Award for the leadership of the Preservation Foundation. Later, he was instrumental in saving the city gas lights,
where he is pictured second from the right with other foundation members.

A Memorial Service will take place at 4 p.m. Saturday, August 27 at First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial contribution may be made to The Lake Forest Preservation Foundation, 400 East
Illinois Road Lake Forest, 60045.

Henry Wheeler is pictured Second from the right just outside his house at Illinois and Mayflower. Others include: left to right, Sarah Wimmer, Shirley Paddock, Judy Harris, Art Miller (in back), Pauline Mohr, Linda Shields, Marcia Bennett (in front), Ted Bennett (E.H. Bennett III), Fred Herlocker, then the late Mr. Wheeler (honorary
board member), and Dustin O'Regan.

In memory of Henry P. Wheeler

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