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PUblIC lIbrArY 24 builDinG ho u r s: Monday–Thursday: 9:00am–9:00pm Friday: 9:00am–5:30pm Sunday (Sept.–May): 1:00pm–5:00pm gle n c o e ch a m b e r of co m m e r c e | 2011 co m m u n i t y gu i d e Gl e n c o e Pub l i c li b r a r y 320 Park Avenue 847 835-5056 www.glencoepubliclibrary.org Executive Director: Peggy Hamil The Library is always open at www.glencoepubliclibrary.org li b r a r y co l l e c t i o n s tr a D i t i o n a l l i b r a r y m a t e r i a l s & t h e n e w e s t t e c h n o l o G i e s • Great reading for everyone, from picture books, to the latest fiction titles for teens, to challenging works of nonfiction, with multiple copies of the current best-sellers and a growing collection of e-books. • Thousands of recorded books on CD and digital audiobooks for downloading to iPods and other MP3 players. • Extensive collection of DVD’s, including feature and foreign films, classics, television series, instructional programs, and performing arts. • CD collection of classical, jazz and popular music. • Magazines and newspapers on a wide range of subjects. Many titles can be checked out. • Business and financial materials for investors. se r v i c e co m m i t t eD t o f r i e nD ly , P e r s o n a l s e r v i c e • Readers’ Services desk for personalized reading, listening and viewing ideas. • Individualized reference assistance from trained professionals. When the library is closed, email and chat reference assistance is available through AskAway 24-Hour Reference service. • 24-hour access to catalog and full-text reference databases available at www.glencoepubliclibrary.org. The website also allows you to renew materials, place your own reserves and email or instant message reference questions to reference librarians. • “Book-a-Librarian” service. Sign up for an hour of personalized assistance in using the Internet, reference databases, digital materials such as audiobooks and other sources of information. • Automatic email notification when materials become available and reminders to renew checked-out materials before they come overdue. Register for this service at the Checkout Desk. • Internet access using Library computers or your own laptop (wireless access). • Personal computer work room. • Hammond Room meeting space for community groups. • Quiet space in the Forte Reference Room. • Home delivery of materials to Glencoe residents who are unable to come to the Library. • Cozy, bright reading room with fireplace and easy chairs—a favorite place for many Glencoe residents! Pr o G r a m m i nG bo o k D i s c u s s i o n s, t h e a r t s, m o v i e s a n D m u c h m o r e • Book and film discussions led by professional facilitators. • Reading programs with prizes and fun for all ages. • Art, theater, music, finance, and technology presentations. • Monthly independent film series shown at the Woman’s Library Club. • “Programs on Demand” for groups and organizations. ch i l D r e n’s se r v i c e s a s P e c i a l D e D i c at i o n t o o u r y o u n G e r Pa t r o n s • A large, inviting space devoted to serving the needs of children and parents. • Research tools and online services carefully selected by professional librarians for Glencoe children. • Programs designed for children from infancy into middle school. • Guidance in selecting children’s reading materials for assignments or recreation. Our collection includes terrific picture books, beginning readers, chapter books and nonfiction of interest to children from birth through 8th grade. fr i e n D s o f t h e l i b r a r y vo lu n t e e r o P P o r t u n i t i e s f o r l i b r a r y a D v o c a t e s • Book sales three times each year. • Classical music concerts twice each year. • Recent generous gifts to the Library include sponsorship of film series, book discussions, premium database access, and summer reading programs. For the latest information on Library programs and services, see Excerpts, the Library’s quarterly newsletter mailed to every home in Glencoe. Copies are also available in the Library and online at the Library website, www.glencoepubliclibrary.org. You also may follow us on Twitter (glencoepl) and Facebook.. v i l l a g e of gl e n c o e ch a m b e r of co m m e r c e , p.o. b o x 575, 847 835 3333, w w w .gl e n c o e c h a m b e r.or g
Intersection of Park Avenue and Vernon Avenue Circa 1920s. - Glencoe Historical Society Archives his t o r y of Gl e n c o e gle n c o e ch a m b e r of co m m e r c e | 2011 co m m u n i t y gu i d e Each May, Glencoe’s second graders travel about the business district, looking at pictures of intersections at various times in history and ask what has changed over time. What was “then” and what is “now?” In fact, Glencoe may have changed over the past years, but physically, it looks similar to the town that began to grow in the late 19th century. Glencoe started as an agricultural hamlet—home to farms, a lumber yard and stagecoach stop—but over time evolved into a suburban community with a local business district. Homes that were built at the time Glencoe was incorporated, l869, still stand tall today next to those built in the 1920s, 1950s, and the 21st century. Glencoe retains much of its small-town feel as the Village evolves, while holding tightly to its heritage. Native American Potawatomies were here before white settlement; they used the densely forested land for hunting. In 1835, Anson H. Taylor, storekeeper and future stage coach inn owner, moved with his family from Chicago to begin new lives. He named the area after himself, Taylorsport. It was an agricultural hamlet with a lake pier and farms plowed by English and German immigrants who joined the Taylors before the Civil War. Glencoe evolved, change spurred on by the 1855 arrival of the railroad. The station was located across from the house of Walter S. Gurnee, president of the Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad (later the Chicago and North Western and now Metra and the Union Pacific). Gurnee was a real estate speculator, as well as former mayor of Chicago. He located the depot near his holdings after Anson Taylor rejected the idea of combining railroad and stage coach stops. The town grew up around the train. It is likely Gurnee also gave Glencoe its name, after his Scottish roots, or perhaps he named the village after his father-in-law, Matthew Coe, from whom he bought the stock farm and home. (Coe’s Glen). In the late 1860s, a pediatrician idealist, Dr. Alexander Hammond, came to town and bought Gurnee’s home. Dr. Hammond’s dream was simple: he enlisted nine other men to join him in creating a utopia. Each man agreed to build a house for himself and to sell another to someone else. The Glencoe Company agreed to keep a park at the lakefront in perpetuity and to fund a church and a school. Unfortunately, the real estate declines of the 1870s put most of the Glencoe Co., including Dr. Hammond, out of business. But the village they founded, platted and incorporated in 1869 was on its way. With the railroad, Glencoe developed into a commuter community for some and a summer vacation community for others. Although there were many German farmers in Glencoe—the Diettrichs and the Beinlichs —through the Second World War, the population grew and changed, with the village becoming more suburban than rural and new residents moving in from all over—African Americans from the south and Canada, and white ethnic groups coming from Chicago. Glencoe’s downtown—or uptown as many of the older residents call it—also changed. The village never has had a huge commercial center, but it has always bustled. Originally, there were blacksmith shops and feed stores. From 1902 to 1993, the business district’s anchor was Henry C. Wienecke’s hardware store. Other stores joined Wienecke’s (Win-eh-kees). There were many grocery stores, barber shops and soda fountains, which over the years, changed to groups of cleaners, clothing boutiques and banks. After the family sold the hardware store, the Wienecke’s property changed into residential and assorted retail spaces. The population increased steadily through 1960, requiring growth in schools from a single all-village school, today’s Central, to four schools: Central, South and North built in the 1920s and West, added in the 1950s. The community built out, with the last subdivision, Strawberry Hill on the west side of town, finished in the 1950s. But then the population declined, bringing the 1976 closure of West School and then in 1979, North School, later reconfigured into the Community Center, now the Takiff Center. In the early 1990s, the population pendulum swung upward once more, necessitating the 1992 re-opening of West. Glencoe’s downtown lost and gained new neighbors as the years went by. The Glencoe Movie Theater, on Vernon Avenue, was razed in 1979, as was its northern neighbor, the Masonic Temple. Christophe’s, a five-and-dime store disappeared when the Harris Bank built its drive-through lane in the late 1970s, and restaurants have come and gone. The Writers’ Theatre developed in the space behind Books on Vernon and today presents drama at the Women’s Library Club. Indeed, Glencoe has changed, but held tight to its heritage. Courtesy: Glencoe Historical Society Voted Best on the North Shore Glencoe’s Full Service Custom Frame Shop and Fine Graphics • Professional Custom Framing Designed to Enhance and Preserve Your Art...One Piece or an Entire Corporate Collection • A large Selection of Unique and Stylish Ready-Made Frames • Archival and Museum Framing • Quality Graphics in Posters and Prints • Blocking, Mounting and Framing of all kinds of Needlework & Tapestries • Home Consultation (House Calls) • Pick-Up and Delivery Celebrating 37 years in Glencoe 668 Vernon Avenue, Glencoe 835-2770 v i l l a g e of gl e n c o e ch a m b e r of co m m e r c e , p.o. b o x 575, 847 835 3333, w w w .gl e n c o e c h a m b e r.or g ArEA hIsTOrY 25
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