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In a local podcast at the beginning of the long Fourth of July holiday weekend, a former Lake Forest official made a statement about the Lake Forest Preservation Foundation, which was untrue and needs correction. 

The Carry Playhouse small theater and the one-act play were aspects of a sub-movement of the Chicago Literary Renaissance.

The Lake Forest Preservation Foundation expresses concerns about the Revised Draft Comprehensive Plan for Lake Forest’s Central Business District, highlighting ambiguities that could threaten the area’s historic character.

See the LFPF’s response to the City’s Draft Update of the Comprehensive Plan.

Mary Bernadette Petty advocates for the preservation of historical architecture, specifically the estate “Stonebridge,” emphasizing its cultural significance and beauty.

This paper will offer questions about the CBD Study Area, show examples of aesthetics that other cities possess that could relate to those in Lake Forest, explain features of a traditional city, and question why the consultant used the examples that do not relate to Lake Forest.

Chicago lumber merchant Devillo R. Holt, a prominent Presbyterian, and married to a relation of Chicago founder Gurdon S. Hubbard, Ellen Hubbard Holt who arrived in Chicago in 1836, had this house built in 1860.

In 1979, domino rezoning in the Vine-Oakwood Historic District razed an important small historic house, repeated recently at 334 E. Westminster with the Quinlan coach house.

The Lake Forest Preservation Foundation opposes the modified plans for Phase 3 of the McKinley Rd. Development, citing non-compliance with historic preservation standards.