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History of Glencoe<br />
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Each May, Glencoe’s second graders explore our central business<br />
district, looking at pictures of intersections at various times in<br />
history, and reflecting on what has changed over time. What<br />
features were present ”then” and what looks different ”now?”<br />
Glencoe has changed over the years, but physically, it looks<br />
similar to the town that was established and began to grow in the<br />
late 19th Century.<br />
Glencoe started as an agricultural hamlet, home to farms, a<br />
lumber yard, and a stagecoach stop. Over time it evolved into<br />
a suburban community with a central business district, and now<br />
can boast additional business districts north of Scott Avenue<br />
in Hubbard Woods, and along the Edens Expressway frontage<br />
road. Homes that were built shortly after the time Glencoe<br />
was incorporated in l869 still stand today next to those built<br />
more recently.<br />
Prior to formal settlement of the area, Native American<br />
Potawatomies used the densely forested land along the Lake<br />
Michigan shore for hunting. In the late 1830s, Anson H. Taylor,<br />
storekeeper and future stage coach inn owner, moved with his<br />
family from Chicago to begin a new life. He named the area<br />
Taylorsport - after himself. He built a small settlement which<br />
included a lake pier and an inn and post office, supporting local<br />
farms created by English and German immigrants who joined the<br />
Taylors before the Civil War.<br />
Development increased after the 1855 arrival of the railroad.<br />
The station was located across from the house of Walter S.<br />
Gurnee, president of the Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad (later<br />
the Chicago and North Western and now Metra and the Union<br />
Pacific). Gurnee was a real estate speculator, as well as a former<br />
mayor of Chicago. He located the depot near his house after<br />
Anson Taylor rejected the idea of combining railroad and stage<br />
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<strong>2019</strong> Glencoe community guide
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