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Illustrations by Mark Hersch<br />
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CONGRATS TO OUR<br />
CITY OF HIGHLAND PARK ON ITS<br />
150 TH<br />
ANNIVERSARY<br />
We’reproud to be asponsor of our city’ssesquicentennial becausethis is our home, too. And being Highland<br />
Park’scommunity bank means morethan just offering solid banking solutions. It means celebrating all of the<br />
unique facets that unite and strengthen our community. This is amomentous year to come together and<br />
reflect onour city’s history, our vibrant future, and the people who continue to make this an outstanding<br />
placetolive, work,and play. Happy150 th anniversary,Highland Park!<br />
HIGHLAND PARK’S COMMUNITYBANK<br />
1949 St.Johns Ave. |643 Roger Williams Ave. | Highland Park<br />
847-432-9988 |www.highlandparkbank.com<br />
Proud to be partofthe<br />
family<br />
Highland Park Bank &Trust is abranch of LakeForest Bank &Trust Company,N.A.
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We’re investing<br />
in your health,<br />
Highland Park.<br />
NorthShore istransforming Highland Park Hospital with amultimillion-dollar expansion and<br />
renovation. We’ve already opened our:<br />
• New Women’s Center, with enhanced labor and delivery facilities, and spa-like amenities<br />
• Expanded, state-of-the-art surgical pavilion<br />
Coming in 2019:<br />
• New Cardiac Catheterization and Electrophysiology Labs<br />
• New improved, expanded Emergency Department<br />
These are just afew of the innovative changes we’re bringing to our hospital, to Highland Park.<br />
See what’s coming at northshore.org/hph.<br />
Healthcare for what’s next.
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A message from the Mayor Nancy Rotering<br />
CONGRATULATIONS<br />
to Highland Park<br />
for 150 years of being a great place<br />
to live, work, and thrive!<br />
The Highland Park Community Foundation is proud to have provided over<br />
$2,000,000 in grant funding since 1992 to locally-operating nonprofit organizations<br />
to help address unmet needs in our community. We are committed to improving<br />
people’s lives and contributing to Highland Park’s vibrancy now and in perpetuity!<br />
Give Where You Live to help…<br />
NURTURE CHILDREN<br />
STRENGTHEN FAMILIES<br />
DEVELOP SKILLS IN TEENS<br />
ASSIST OLDER ADULTS<br />
Our community has<br />
so much to celebrate this<br />
year as Highland Park<br />
marks its sesquicentennial<br />
– our milestone 150th<br />
Anniversary. Starting in<br />
January with dozens of<br />
events and celebrations,<br />
we are excited to be<br />
kicking off <strong>HP150</strong>. This<br />
year-long commemoration<br />
provides us with an opportunity<br />
to come together to<br />
reflect on our rich history,<br />
our passionate present,<br />
and our exciting future.<br />
As the year progresses,<br />
many events and programs<br />
have been planned<br />
with more to come. For<br />
a full list, visit www.<br />
cityhpil.com/<strong>HP150</strong>.<br />
There will be something<br />
for everyone, thanks to the<br />
collaborative efforts of so<br />
many who work to make<br />
our community a diverse<br />
and exciting place to live<br />
and visit. Our City staff,<br />
public officials, library,<br />
schools, park district,<br />
service organizations,<br />
not-for-profits, clergy,<br />
business leaders and an<br />
incredible array of volunteers<br />
have worked tirelessly<br />
to make Highland<br />
Park the place to be in<br />
2019. Highlights include<br />
the Big Bash (in conjunction<br />
with Fourth Fest)<br />
on July 4th, the installation<br />
of an <strong>HP150</strong> public<br />
sculpture, the unveiling<br />
of a quilt, an architecture<br />
tour, the publication of a<br />
commemorative book, the<br />
opening of a time capsule,<br />
over 150 service projects,<br />
related school curricula,<br />
and a pioneer celebration<br />
that is happening in the<br />
fall. A huge thank you to<br />
our sponsors and steering<br />
committee.<br />
I invite you to join<br />
with friends, neighbors<br />
and family from far and<br />
wide to participate, reflect<br />
and learn about this great<br />
city of ours! From the<br />
days of the Potawatomi<br />
encamped on our shores,<br />
to the homesteaders and<br />
the pioneers, the summer<br />
visitors, Ft. Sheridan, our<br />
farmers, the origination of<br />
the hospital, the railroad<br />
riders to Ravinia Festival<br />
and the introduction of<br />
the expressway, doubling<br />
our population, to our<br />
proud legacy as an arts<br />
incubator, home to excellent<br />
schools, incredible<br />
architecture, our beautiful<br />
lakefront and parks,<br />
a wonderful library and<br />
vibrant downtown. We<br />
are... progress!<br />
There is so much to<br />
learn about this city!<br />
Where was the military<br />
academy located? When<br />
was the cholera epidemic?<br />
What was Highland Park’s<br />
role in the Civil War?<br />
Where did MacArthur<br />
stay when he visited?<br />
Where was Steppenwolf<br />
founded? Who is our<br />
resident Muppet?<br />
As we think about our<br />
city, what it means to us<br />
as individuals and collectively<br />
as a community,<br />
I ask that we take lessons<br />
from the past, harness our<br />
passions in the present,<br />
and plan for a future of<br />
strength, curiosity, compassion<br />
and leadership.<br />
We are the heart of the<br />
North Shore. As we stand<br />
on the shoulders of those<br />
who had vision and a<br />
pioneering spirit, whether<br />
in 1869, 1969 or 2019, I<br />
encourage each of us to<br />
commit to continuing our<br />
legacy of growth with<br />
purpose, pursuit of excellence,<br />
and love of this<br />
great community we all<br />
call home. <strong>HP150</strong> is not<br />
only about looking back at<br />
our evolution to the present,<br />
but also about looking<br />
forward to an exciting<br />
future filled with possibilities<br />
and achievement.<br />
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Happy 150th<br />
Anniversary<br />
Highland Park Train Station<br />
Proud To Celebrate Highland Park’s<br />
Sesquicentennial Anniversary!<br />
1741 2nd Street<br />
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DON’T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BE SEEN IN HIGHLAND PARK AND HIGHWOOD!!<br />
The 2019-20 Highland Park Chamber Community Guide will be directly<br />
mailed to virtually EVERY ADDRESS IN HIGHLAND PARK AND HIGHWOOD<br />
THE WEEK OF MAY 13, 2019.<br />
By advertising in this all-inclusive, four-color glossy magazine,<br />
your ad will be seen by current and prospective residents and business owners.<br />
The guide will also be available at the City of Highland Park and designated<br />
drop-off locations around the city and neighboring towns.<br />
RESERVE YOUR AD BEFORE MARCH 8TH, 2019.<br />
PLEASE CONTACT THERESA LIPPERT AT<br />
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North Shore School of Dance<br />
Ballet, Modern, Contemporary,<br />
Jazz, Tap, Hip-hop, and Lyrical.<br />
Summer dance camps<br />
and classes.<br />
Ages 2-1/2 – Adult, beginner<br />
through professional.<br />
North Shore Performance Companies<br />
30 th Annual Production of The Nutcracker<br />
Professional Faculty<br />
In Our<br />
www.northshoredance.com<br />
email us at nssdance@aol.com<br />
Like us on Facebook!<br />
Tweet us on Twitter!<br />
North Shore School of Dance<br />
505 Laurel Avenue,<br />
Highland Park<br />
847.432.2060<br />
30th Year<br />
Inspiring the Passion of Dance!<br />
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We use only the highest quality and fresh ingredients.<br />
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We measure your feet and help you find the perfect style and fit.<br />
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North Shore School District 112 Celebrates HP 150<br />
( Jesse Lowe Smith<br />
(1869-1934) was a<br />
pioneering educator<br />
who served as<br />
Superintendent of<br />
Schools for District<br />
107 and the principal<br />
of the Elm Place<br />
Schoolcredit:<br />
Highland Park<br />
Historical Society)<br />
North Shore School District 112 follows in the proud<br />
tradition of dedicated educators in the pursuit of<br />
providing the students of our community excellence in<br />
the classroom. Schools in the local area have a long and<br />
storied past that is cherished by generations of proud<br />
students, staff, alumni, and community members who<br />
have made incredible contributions to our schools and<br />
communities. District 112 was born in 1993 after the<br />
consolidation of three school districts in an area that<br />
has been educating children since the mid 19th century.<br />
Today, the district is in the midst of a process to bring<br />
a refreshed, viable, and consistent curriculum designed<br />
to educate all students in all schools. District 112 has<br />
implemented new academic enrichment programs,<br />
introduced new curricular resources, and welcomed a<br />
new superintendent, Michael Lubelfeld, Ed.D., as well<br />
as several new administrators at the school and district<br />
levels.<br />
(Michael Lubelfeld,<br />
Ed.D., Current<br />
Superintendent of<br />
Schools who took<br />
office in District 112<br />
in July of 2018 )<br />
(Edgewood Middle<br />
School ca. 1959<br />
credit: Highland<br />
Park Historical<br />
Society)<br />
District 112 has also achieved a major milestone by<br />
passage of Phase I of a historic Long-Range Plan to<br />
renovate and modernize Northwood Middle school<br />
(built in the 1960s) and Edgewood Middle School (built<br />
in the 1950s). This construction and renovation project<br />
represents the first time in the history of the district<br />
that a major overhaul of facilities will impact every<br />
student in the district in such a short timeframe. As we<br />
look towards the future and realize our goals together<br />
as one community, we look to the past for guidance and<br />
inspiration. District 112 is dedicated to helping sustain<br />
the vibrancy of the local community and is happy to<br />
take part in the celebration of Highland Park’s<br />
Sesquicentennial.<br />
(Northwood Jr.<br />
High School ca. 1962<br />
credit: Epstein Global)
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TIME TO<br />
DANCE<br />
Ballet, Jazz, Modern, and<br />
Tap classes for people<br />
age 55 and over<br />
TAKE THIS NEW<br />
CAR WASH FOR<br />
ASPIN.<br />
THE TOWELS ARE TWIRLING<br />
IN HIGHLAND PARK.<br />
FIRST CLASS ATTENDED IS FREE<br />
Classes are held at<br />
North Shore School of Dance<br />
505 Laurel Ave., Highland Park<br />
847-510-3357<br />
See what all the excitement is about<br />
at the NEW Waterway ® Carwash.<br />
Techny Road<br />
Dundee Road<br />
64 Skokie Valley Rd<br />
Highland Park<br />
Waukegan Road<br />
Skokie Valley Road<br />
Lake Cook Road<br />
Green Bay Road<br />
Interstate 94<br />
2300 S. Waukegan Road<br />
Northbrook, IL 60062<br />
For more<br />
information and<br />
pre-registration,<br />
visit<br />
CBG-institute.org<br />
Willow Road<br />
64 Skokie Valley Rd., Highland Park, IL 60035<br />
–Located just north of Lake Cook Rd.<br />
VISIT US TODAY<br />
CBG INSTITUTE<br />
for Dance and Health<br />
A 501(c)3 Organization
Deadline May 1st<br />
-Essays will be judged by 22nd Century Media's North Shore Editorial<br />
staff<br />
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What Highland Park Means To You Contest<br />
Sponsored by:<br />
K–5th graders-Art Contest<br />
• 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners art published in June 27the guide.<br />
• Art rendering/drawing must be on paper/sheet no larger than 11x17.<br />
• Must submit to their homeroom teacher by May 17, 2019<br />
• Label on back of art: Name, Grade, School, Teacher<br />
• Art will be judged by 22nd Century Media graphic design team.<br />
• One submission per student.<br />
Prize - Top three<br />
art contest winners will<br />
be awarded a prize<br />
from Ravinia.<br />
Middle/High School Students-Essay Contest<br />
• 1st place winner's essay published in guide and honorable mentions listed in June 27th guide.<br />
• 500 word max<br />
• Submit to an email cityhp@cityhpil.com email with the Subject: <strong>HP150</strong> Essay Contest<br />
• Deadline May 1st -Essays will be judged by 22nd Century Media's North Shore Editorial staff.<br />
• One submission per student.<br />
RAVINIA<br />
SEASON LAWN PASS<br />
ADMIT 2<br />
GENERAL<br />
THIS PASS IS NOT TRANSFERABLE<br />
1st place Prize -The high school winning<br />
entry will receive a 2019 season pass to The Ravinia Festivial.<br />
The pass admits 2 people to the lawn for every 2019 concert,<br />
including sold-out events!
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The land upon which the present City of Highland Park is<br />
situated together with the surrounding country, belonged<br />
originally to the Potawatomie Indians. Beginning in<br />
1833, a trail was surveyed and blazed from Chicago, IL<br />
to Milwaukee, WI to Green Bay, WI. The trail referred to<br />
as “Green Bay Road” consisted of rough terrain and log<br />
bridges over creeks and streams. The government built<br />
log houses along the road for travelers, most of<br />
which became taverns.<br />
Highland Park was preceded by two<br />
other towns – St. Johns and Port<br />
Clinton. The name Highland<br />
Park was given to our city by<br />
Walter S. Gurnee, an early<br />
Mayor of Chicago, at the<br />
time the railroad station<br />
was built in 1854. In 1867,<br />
Gurnee bought out Port<br />
Clinton Land Company<br />
and sold approximately<br />
twelve thousand acres to<br />
the Highland Park Building<br />
Company. The company<br />
caused a plat to be made in<br />
1869 covering the entire<br />
tract from Walker Avenue<br />
to the north line of Ravinia.<br />
The company opened all the<br />
platted streets, appropriated<br />
a tract of land of ten acres<br />
on the lake front at the foot<br />
of Central Avenue for a<br />
public part, and built a fine<br />
hotel. In 1869, the company<br />
sought to become a City<br />
government to gain the<br />
authority to regulate saloons<br />
and drive them out. A<br />
legislature granted a charter<br />
for the City in March, 1869<br />
and the citizens of the City<br />
granted the council the right<br />
to prohibit liquor. Highland<br />
Park was the fourth North<br />
Shore community to receive<br />
a charter.<br />
Pre-Highland Park<br />
Highland Park<br />
150<br />
Elisha Gray<br />
(August 2,<br />
1835 – January<br />
21, 1901) was<br />
an American<br />
electrical<br />
engineer who<br />
co-founded the<br />
Western Electric<br />
Manufacturing<br />
Company.<br />
Gray is best<br />
known for his<br />
development<br />
of a telephone<br />
prototype<br />
in 1876 in<br />
Highland Park,<br />
Illinois.<br />
Famous<br />
People in<br />
Highland Park<br />
History<br />
The Beginning<br />
The first Mayor of Highland Park was Frank P. Hawkins.<br />
The Highland Park Building Company put up a store on the<br />
northeast corner of Central Avenue and St. Johns, with an<br />
assembly hall which was first called Central Hall. Central Hall<br />
held the main political and social meetings including worship<br />
and public school.<br />
A City Building was constructed in 1889 at the corner<br />
of Green Bay and Central. It was subsequently<br />
enlarged to accommodate a jail and fire<br />
station. A new Georgian colonial style<br />
City Hall was constructed in 1929 at<br />
the corner of St. Johns and Hazel<br />
Avenues.<br />
quotes<br />
Type of Government<br />
Since its beginnings, the<br />
population of Highland Park has<br />
grown from 1,154 in 1880 to<br />
nearly 30,000 in 2018.<br />
Highland Park’s future<br />
is quite as flattering as its<br />
past ~Frank Hawkins, first<br />
Highland Park Mayor<br />
The secret of good<br />
government is inscribed over the<br />
door of our City Hall – the salvation of the<br />
community is watchfulness of the citizen<br />
~Mayor A. Gordon Humphrey<br />
Frank P.<br />
Hawkins -<br />
first Mayor of<br />
Highland Park<br />
(1896)<br />
Ralph<br />
Snyder- first<br />
City Manager<br />
(1954)<br />
Highland Park Firsts<br />
Frances M.<br />
Arenbergfirst<br />
female City<br />
Councilman<br />
(elected 1962)<br />
Nancy R.<br />
Rotering<br />
– first female<br />
Mayor (2011)<br />
Ghida S.<br />
Neukirchfirst<br />
female<br />
City Manager<br />
(2014)<br />
The Highland Park League of Women Voters in partnership with the<br />
Deerfield Township Voters Association led the efforts to establish a<br />
City Manager form of government in Highland Park, replacing the<br />
Commission system. The first City Manager, Ralph Snyder was hired in<br />
1954 from a pool of approximately 70 candidates.<br />
The Highland Park Archives and Local History collections, housed at the Highland Park Public Library in<br />
collaboration with the Highland Park Historical Society, document the history, people, and culture of Highland<br />
Park, IL, with government records, organizational records, photographs, and family histories, including<br />
scrapbooks, correspondence, and artifacts. Please consider making a donation.<br />
1867<br />
1869<br />
SOME HIGHLAND PARK<br />
MILESTONES<br />
The Highland Park Building Company purchased the Highland<br />
Park Hotel in 1867, renaming it the Central Hotel. Many<br />
municipal meetings, business, and voting took place at the<br />
corner of First and Central facing this corner across the tracks.<br />
Handwritten draft of first City Charter. On March 11, 1869,<br />
exactly a week after the inauguration of President Ulysses S.<br />
Grant, Highland Park became a City in the State of Illinois.<br />
That same year in our still young nation of 37 states, a patent<br />
was granted for celluloid, perhaps the first plastic. In France,<br />
Hippolyte Mège received patents for oleomargarine, the first<br />
butter substitute. In Russia, Leo Tolstoy completed and sold<br />
War and Peace. Iconic American writer Mark Twain published<br />
The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress.<br />
(Highland Park City records. Highland Park Archives and Local<br />
History Collections)<br />
The early City budget<br />
included a salary of $600<br />
for the (Port Clinton) school<br />
principal, less than $20,000<br />
in 2019 value. It’s not clear<br />
if this included housing.<br />
(Highland Park City records.<br />
Highland Park Archives and<br />
Local History Collections)
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1869<br />
Northwestern Store, the<br />
first in Highland Park, was<br />
founded by Moses Moses, a<br />
peddler in Central Europe in<br />
his youth who also became a<br />
civic leader and alderman. His<br />
store also served as an 1869<br />
polling station, as did the<br />
stores of F.T. Field, Mooney<br />
and Allen and Malcolm Frazar,<br />
the Highland Park House,<br />
or even the home of John<br />
Cummings, according to City<br />
records.<br />
1872<br />
In the 1872 Plan of<br />
Highland Park, city limits<br />
were much smaller,<br />
reaching north past the<br />
Stupey and Rectenwald<br />
Farms and just west of<br />
the North West railway.<br />
Individual villages of<br />
Ravinia and Braeside<br />
bordered to the south.<br />
The first Stupey born in the<br />
United States, Pete Stupey,<br />
poses in front of his 1848<br />
birthplace, the Francis Stupey<br />
Cabin, which would become<br />
a caddy shack on the Exmoor<br />
Country Club grounds at the<br />
turn of the century. Later,<br />
Peter lived and owned a farm<br />
in Michigan.<br />
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Open Doors Highland<br />
Park gives participants<br />
an opportunity to explore<br />
a variety of buildings<br />
through guided tours (City<br />
Water Treatment Plant).<br />
Volunteers preparing dessert at soup<br />
kitchen<br />
Name: Mary W. Adams House<br />
Address: 1923 Lake Ave<br />
architectural walking tour<br />
photo submitted by Russell Grace<br />
Architect: Frank Llyod Wright<br />
Built: 1905<br />
Volunteers for Restoration Work Day at the Park District of Highland Park<br />
Northwood and Edgewood students preparing for the “Day of Giving” that took place December 2, 2018<br />
An invitation to the<br />
celebration<br />
150 Years of Great<br />
Architecture<br />
The <strong>HP150</strong> Architecture<br />
Committee is planning<br />
three special events for<br />
2019 and one permanent<br />
resource for those who<br />
love great architecture.<br />
Historic Home Initiative<br />
The Historic Home<br />
Initiative will take place<br />
September–October and<br />
will highlight significant<br />
architecture within the<br />
Highland Park community<br />
through the use of lawn<br />
signs (pictured to the<br />
right). If you believe your<br />
home should be included,<br />
please contact the <strong>HP150</strong><br />
Architecture Committee at<br />
Nancy@NancyKarp.com.<br />
Architecture Bus Tours<br />
The City will celebrate<br />
Architecture Month in<br />
April with bus tours of<br />
residential architecture.<br />
One tour will take place<br />
during Highland Park<br />
High School’s Focus on<br />
the Arts event. The other<br />
tour, which is open to the<br />
public, will take place April<br />
28, at a cost of $10 per<br />
person. More information<br />
will be posted at www.<br />
cityhpil.com/<strong>HP150</strong>.<br />
Open Doors Highland Park<br />
Open Doors Highland<br />
Park will take place on<br />
September 28, and will<br />
highlight interesting<br />
nonresidential buildings<br />
through an open house–<br />
style event. Attendees<br />
will be able to go inside<br />
buildings that aren’t<br />
ordinarily accessible, such<br />
as backstage at Ravinia,<br />
the sewage treatment<br />
plant, the former water<br />
tower, and more.<br />
Great Architecture<br />
Resource<br />
A permanent website,<br />
accessible through the<br />
City’s website, www.<br />
cityhpil.com, will give<br />
information about historic<br />
buildings. Accessible from<br />
smartphones, the website<br />
will show users the<br />
buildings nearest to where<br />
they are. More information<br />
on the website will be<br />
available in summer 2019.<br />
<strong>HP150</strong> Big Bash (in<br />
conjunction with Fourth<br />
Fest)<br />
Save the date for the<br />
biggest party of the year:<br />
July 4, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.<br />
at Sunset Woods Park!<br />
Attend the City’s annual<br />
Fourth of July parade<br />
and follow the 150th<br />
Anniversary Cake parade<br />
float to Sunset Woods<br />
Park, where all the fun<br />
begins—entertainment,<br />
birthday cake, pie-eating<br />
contest, relay races, and<br />
other family-friendly<br />
games. A special <strong>HP150</strong><br />
firework show will take<br />
place at 9:30 p.m. at<br />
Wolters Field.<br />
A Call for Service<br />
for <strong>HP150</strong><br />
The <strong>HP150</strong> Service<br />
Committee invites<br />
individuals, schools,<br />
clubs, businesses, and<br />
places of worship to<br />
give us information on<br />
how you serve others. If<br />
you are doing a service<br />
project or planning a new<br />
project in honor of the<br />
City of Highland Park’s<br />
150th anniversary, please<br />
contact Marietta Stevens<br />
at the Volunteer Pool of<br />
Highland Park at info@<br />
volunteerpoolhp.org or<br />
call 847-433-2190 with<br />
a short description of<br />
the service project, its<br />
impact, and a photograph<br />
after the project has been<br />
completed.<br />
Service Projects for the<br />
150th Celebration will<br />
receive special recognition<br />
on the City’s <strong>HP150</strong><br />
website, www.cityhpil.com/<br />
<strong>HP150</strong>.<br />
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Sesquicentennial Celebration 1869-2019<br />
Calendar of Events<br />
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Opening Centennial Time Capsule March 11<br />
Highland Park History Calendar Awards of Events March TBD<br />
Focus on the Arts<br />
NOT<br />
April<br />
BAD<br />
9 - 12<br />
Arbor Day April 27<br />
June - july<br />
Mexico’s Day of the Child, el Dia del Niño<br />
DFOR<br />
April 30<br />
Bus and Bike Tours • <strong>HP150</strong> Bitter Jester Music<br />
April - June<br />
150<br />
<strong>HP150</strong> Highland Park Strings Festival Concert at HPHS May 19<br />
<strong>HP150</strong> Bitter Jester Music Festival<br />
June - July<br />
Pieces of History Puzzle Project<br />
June - August<br />
June - August<br />
Food Truck Thursdays<br />
June September - 28<br />
DFOR<br />
September<br />
• Opening Centennial Time Capsule<br />
• Stupey Cabin Harvest Fest and<br />
March 11<br />
Tours September 14<br />
• Highland Park History Awards<br />
• Open Doors Highland Park<br />
March TBD<br />
City of Highland<br />
Big Bash, Parade, and Fireworks • Pieces Park<br />
Entertainment,<br />
of History<br />
Birthday<br />
Puzzle<br />
Cake, Pie Eating<br />
Project<br />
Contest, July 4<br />
Commemorative Book Release<br />
( )<br />
• <strong>HP150</strong> Sculpture Unveiling<br />
Relay Races, and Other Family-Friendly Games!<br />
July TBD<br />
Sesquicentennial<br />
North Shore Venetian Night<br />
Celebration 1869-2019<br />
September TBD<br />
• Focus on the Arts April 9 - 12 June-September<br />
August 3<br />
National Night Out • August <strong>HP150</strong> 6 Quilt Unveiling September<br />
• Highland Park's Calendar Voices Port of Clinton the Art Festival of Events<br />
/• Taste Food of Highland Truck Thursdays<br />
Park August TBD23 - 25<br />
Past April 13Opening Stupey Centennial Cabin Time Harvest Capsule Fest and Tours March September 11 14<br />
• Arbor Day April Highland 27 Open Park Doors History Highland Awards Park June-october<br />
October<br />
March September TBD28<br />
Focus on <strong>HP150</strong> the Arts Sculpture Unveiling<br />
September • Historic Home Tours <strong>HP150</strong> April Quilt 28<br />
• Ravinia Farmers Market<br />
April 9 - 12<br />
Unveiling<br />
• September Highland TBDPark Fire Department<br />
Arbor Day April 27<br />
• Mexico’s Day Mexico’s of the Historic Child, Day of<br />
Home el the Dia Child,<br />
Initiative<br />
el Dia<br />
September - October<br />
July del Niño April Annual 30 Pancake Breakfast<br />
del Niňo April 30 Highland Park Fire Department Annual Pancake Breakfast October 6<br />
Bus and Bike Tours<br />
<strong>HP150</strong> Light Up the Night • Big Bash (in conjunction with<br />
April October - June 6<br />
November 16<br />
<strong>HP150</strong> Highland<br />
Sesquicentennial<br />
Park Strings<br />
Time Capsule<br />
Concert<br />
Fourth Dedication<br />
at HPHS May<br />
Fest), Parade, and<br />
December<br />
19<br />
TBD<br />
<strong>HP150</strong> Bitter Jester Music Festival<br />
November<br />
June - July<br />
*Schedule subject to change. Visit www.cityhpil.com/<strong>HP150</strong> for a full list of planned activities.<br />
• Historic Home Pieces Initiative of History Puzzle Project Fireworks July 4<br />
June • <strong>HP150</strong> - August Light Up the Night<br />
Food Truck Thursdays • Commemorative Book Release June November - September 16<br />
Big Bash, Parade, and Fireworks Entertainment, July TBD Birthday Cake, Pie Eating Contest, July 4<br />
• Bus and Bike Commemorative Tours Book Release<br />
( Relay Races, and Other Family-Friendly Games! )<br />
December<br />
July TBD<br />
North Shore Venetian Night August<br />
August 3<br />
• Sesquicentennial Time Capsule<br />
National Night Out • North Shore Venetian Night<br />
August 6<br />
Port Clinton Art Festival / Taste of Highland Park August Dedication 23 - 25 December TBD<br />
• <strong>HP150</strong> Highland Park Strings<br />
August 3<br />
Stupey Cabin Harvest Fest and Tours September 14<br />
Concert at HPHS Open May Doors 19Highland Park • National Night Out August 6<br />
September 28<br />
<strong>HP150</strong> Sculpture Unveiling • Port Clinton Art Festival / Taste of September TBD<br />
<strong>HP150</strong> Quilt Unveiling Highland Park August 23 - 25<br />
September TBD<br />
• Highland Park Historic Architecture Home Initiative Tours<br />
September - October<br />
by Chicago Architecture Highland Park Center Fire Department Annual Pancake Breakfast October 6<br />
<strong>HP150</strong> Light Up the Night November 16<br />
Sesquicentennial Time Capsule Dedication<br />
December TBD<br />
*Schedule subject to change. Visit www.cityhpil.com/<strong>HP150</strong> for a full list of planned activities.
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Participating in the celebration<br />
The City of Highland Park will celebrate its sesquicentennial (150th anniversary)<br />
in 2019 with highly visible special events, concerts, city tours, and more<br />
Get Involved<br />
• There are a number of ways to<br />
get involved in the sesquicentennial<br />
celebrations and make<br />
2019 a year to remember:<br />
• Be a sponsor<br />
• Buy a personalized brick<br />
• Tell us your story (Have an<br />
interesting story involving<br />
Highland Park? We want to<br />
hear it!)<br />
• Submit a photo (Email<br />
cityhp@cityhpil.com or<br />
mail to City Hall, 1707 St.<br />
Johns Ave. Highland Park, IL<br />
60035.)<br />
• Participate in an essay contest<br />
or art contest (details below)<br />
Learn more at www.cityhpil.com/<br />
<strong>HP150</strong><br />
What I Love About Highland<br />
Park Essay and Art Contest<br />
The Highland Park Landmark<br />
is looking for submissions from<br />
students in the city to express<br />
what Highland Park means to<br />
them. For K-5 students, we’re<br />
looking for drawings or paintings<br />
on paper no larger than<br />
11x17 inches. Submissions of<br />
artwork to teachers is May 17.<br />
Middle and high school students<br />
can contribute to an essay contest<br />
of no more than 500 words.<br />
Submissions are due to cityhp@<br />
cityhpil.com by May 1. Art and<br />
essays will be judged by 22nd<br />
Century Media staff.<br />
Venetian Night<br />
The <strong>HP150</strong> History and Lakefront<br />
Committee is planning a<br />
Venetian Night on the Lakefront<br />
in collaboration with the North<br />
Shore Yacht Club on August 3.<br />
The traditional event will feature<br />
an evening parade of boats<br />
decorated with festive lights and<br />
fun themes. Registration to participate<br />
in the parade is open to<br />
anyone with a US Coast Guard<br />
Compliant boat. The event may<br />
be viewed from the shore at Park<br />
Avenue Beach. Event details are<br />
forthcoming and will be available<br />
on the City’s website at<br />
www.cityhpil.com/<strong>HP150</strong>.<br />
Pieces of the Past<br />
Jump into the past and learn<br />
more about Highland Park history<br />
with the upcoming outdoor,<br />
open-air exhibit “Pieces of the<br />
Past,” which will explore historic<br />
people, places, and events.<br />
If you have a piece of history<br />
that should be shared in this exhibit,<br />
please reach out to the History<br />
and Lakefront Committee at<br />
cityhp@cityhpil.com.<br />
Highland Park History<br />
Project Competition<br />
The <strong>HP150</strong> History and Lakefront<br />
Committee, in partnership<br />
with the Highland Park Historical<br />
Society, seeks submissions<br />
for the Highland Park History<br />
Project Competition. Researchers<br />
may write an essay or create<br />
a poster or other audio-visual<br />
material, such as a StoryCorps<br />
interview about a subject, person,<br />
or event in Highland Park history.<br />
Explore 1930s interviews with<br />
early pioneers recollecting crossing<br />
the Atlantic, review the Stupey<br />
family’s exit papers permitting<br />
emigration from the Prussian<br />
kingdom to the newly open Illinois<br />
wilderness, and much more.<br />
Researchers must use at least one<br />
primary (archival) resource that<br />
has not yet been digitized by the<br />
Highland Park Historical Society.<br />
Adult submissions are due May<br />
1, and youth submissions are due<br />
June 1. Details regarding the contest<br />
are available at www.cityhpil.<br />
com/<strong>HP150</strong>. Winners will be announced<br />
at the <strong>HP150</strong> Big Bash<br />
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In the early 1900s, Ravinia was known as the summer<br />
opera capital of the world.<br />
1904 Baseball stadium : When Ravinia opened as a high-end amusement park in 1904, its attractions included a<br />
baseball stadium.<br />
Ravinia Festival:<br />
Much more<br />
stage Ravinia’s<br />
1915 Program book cover: Ravinia’s early program<br />
books were lavish full-color collectibles.<br />
When the train company that started Ravinia went<br />
bankrupt, it was taken over by a group of prominent<br />
businessmen. The self-owned not-for-profit is still<br />
overseen by an all-volunteer Board of Trustees today, as<br />
it was in this photo of the “organization” from 1917.<br />
First opened on August 15, 1904, Ravinia remains the<br />
oldest and most programmatically diverse music festival<br />
in North America, and brings about 600,000 guests to<br />
over 140 events each year. It was conceived as a high-end<br />
amusement park—complete with music pavilion, dance<br />
hall, baseball stadium, theater, and electric swing—by the<br />
A.C. Frost Company as a lure to get Chicagoans to ride<br />
its fledgling Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Railroad to<br />
a respite in the woods, far from the heat and smells of a<br />
city known as the “hog butcher to the world.” Trains still<br />
stop at Ravinia’s historic entrance today, serviced by the<br />
Metra Union Pacific North line, making it the only private<br />
train stop left in Illinois. As Ravinia grew in popularity,<br />
summer cottages popped up nearby, and when the train<br />
company went bust, Ravinia continued to thrive under the<br />
leadership of a group of North Shore philanthropists who<br />
created the Ravinia Company, headed by Louis Eckstein.<br />
Today Ravinia operates as a self-owned not-for-profit, still<br />
run by a volunteer board of business and community leaders,<br />
but now overseeing a professional staff, with support<br />
from its active and insightful Women’s Board (established<br />
in 1964) and its Associates Board of young movers and<br />
shakers (established in 1988).<br />
From 1919 through 1931, Ravinia was known as the<br />
“summer opera capital of the world,” welcoming to<br />
its stage the most-celebrated singers from Europe who<br />
sailed to America to perform at the Met and were in no<br />
hurry to make that arduous return voyage. Even during<br />
this period, the railway proved crucial the festival’s success,<br />
and many great operas were truncated so audiences<br />
original music pavilion was<br />
made of wood.<br />
would not miss the last train of the evening. Ravinia<br />
shuttered for four years during the Great Depression, reopening<br />
in 1936 with a greater emphasis on symphonic<br />
music, hosting the first formal summer residency of the<br />
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, an enviable relationship<br />
that exists to this day. In 1938, Benny Goodman made<br />
headlines by breaking racial barriers, performing at Ravinia<br />
with an integrated band.<br />
Ravinia continues to attract headline-making artists<br />
from all genres of music to Highland Park. The festival’s<br />
illustrious roster includes (alphabetically): Louis<br />
Armstrong, The Beach Boys, Leonard Bernstein, Tony<br />
Bennett, Glen Campbell, The Carpenters, Ray Charles,<br />
Chicago, Van Cliburn, Common, James Conlon, Aaron<br />
Copland, Elvis Costello, Crosby Stills & Nash, Miles<br />
Davis, Plácido Domingo, Bob Dylan, Earth Wind &<br />
Fire, Duke Ellington, Christoph Eschenbach, 50 Cent,<br />
Ella Fitzgerald, Sir James Galway, George Gershwin,<br />
Dizzy Gillespie, Jascha Heifetz, Janis Joplin, Lady Gaga,<br />
Yo-Yo Ma, Stevie Nicks, Jessye Norman, Dolly Parton,<br />
Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman, Bonnie Raitt, Diana<br />
Ross, Mstislav Rostropovich, Santana, Steely Dan, Isaac<br />
Stern, Sting, Igor Stravinsky, Tina Turner, Frederica<br />
von Stade, Yuja Wang, John Williams, and Frank Zappa<br />
& the Mothers of Invention. Pianist Lang Lang was<br />
launched to international superstardom from the stage of<br />
Ravinia’s 1999 Gala. Six of the CSO’s music directors<br />
first appeared with the orchestra at Ravinia, including<br />
Sir Georg Solti and Riccardo Muti. Aretha Franklin’s fi-<br />
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Steppenwolf Founder Jeff Perry Shares<br />
Memories of Growing up in Highland Park<br />
The following is the text<br />
of a speech Steppenwolf<br />
Theatre founder and acclaimed<br />
actor Jeff Perry<br />
gave at the <strong>HP150</strong> kick-off<br />
party on Jan. 9 at the First<br />
Bank of Highland Park,<br />
one of the sponsors of the<br />
city’s sesquicentennial celebration.<br />
I came into the world in<br />
August of 1955 in a house<br />
on Deerfield Road, a house<br />
or two just east of the golf<br />
course and the twin pools.<br />
It had woods beyond our<br />
backyard where my sisters<br />
Jo and Janice and I played;<br />
to us kids it seemed an endless<br />
expanse. Only upon a<br />
visit years later, after houses<br />
had taken its place, did<br />
I realize that its boundaries<br />
were probably smaller than<br />
a city block.<br />
I remember our landlords—Dorothy,<br />
who<br />
taught me bird whistles,<br />
and her husband, Wilf, who<br />
lovingly tended a rhubarb<br />
patch behind the house.<br />
Lincoln Elementary was<br />
my first school, and riding<br />
my bike home, sometimes<br />
no handed, on the downhill<br />
slalom of Bob-O-Link<br />
Road my greatest thrill.<br />
My pop, Harold Joseph<br />
Perry, was born in Centralia,<br />
Illinois. He went<br />
to school as an English<br />
major at the University<br />
of Chicago on the GI Bill<br />
after serving in the Navy<br />
in WW2. My mom, Eleanor<br />
Jane Irving Perry, was<br />
born in Hamburg, Iowa,<br />
and raised in Trenton, Missouri.<br />
Her father, Richard<br />
Irving, was a traveling theatre<br />
actor who, like Tom<br />
and Laura Wingfield’s dad<br />
from Tennessee Williams’s<br />
The Glass Menagerie, fell<br />
in love with long distances<br />
and left the family when<br />
she was young. Her sister<br />
Barbara Guile, who we all<br />
knew as Aunt Boots, became<br />
a high-school drama<br />
teacher in their neighboring<br />
town of Chillicothe,<br />
Missouri, and would end<br />
up moving to Chicago and<br />
building a performance<br />
program for students at<br />
Steppenwolf that thrives<br />
to this day. It has always<br />
struck me, gratefully, that<br />
my English- and theatreloving<br />
mom somehow never<br />
allowed her actor father’s<br />
abandonment to tarnish her<br />
boundless encouragement<br />
for what would become her<br />
son’s path.<br />
By third grade, we had<br />
moved to 443 Burton Ave.,<br />
and my schools became<br />
Ravinia Elementary, then<br />
Edgewood Junior High,<br />
then HPHS.<br />
Like any kid, and the<br />
families that peopled it can<br />
come your universe and the<br />
Highland Park I grew up in<br />
was pretty darn idyllic …<br />
never a locked door, never<br />
an empty fridge, riding<br />
my bike everywhere, summers<br />
at Rosewood Beach,<br />
falls full of giant piles of<br />
leaves to jump in, my sister<br />
Janice’s mastery of the<br />
pogo stick as the undisputed<br />
pogo champ of Burton<br />
Ave., going down the block<br />
to the park and playing<br />
sunup to sundown in the<br />
strip of trees that bordered<br />
the Chicago Northwestern<br />
train tracks, clumping<br />
down the street with my<br />
Burton Ave buddy Guy<br />
Nakamura in the winter,<br />
draped with ice skates and<br />
hockey gear on our way to<br />
the frozen playfield at Ravinia<br />
Elementary, watching<br />
our neighbor on one side<br />
Mr. Musio lovingly tend<br />
his vegetable garden and<br />
my neighbors the Caranis<br />
on the other, gathering in<br />
Jeff Perry and Mayor Nancy Rotering pose for a picture st the unveiling of the <strong>HP150</strong><br />
wall at the First Bank of Highland Park on January 9, 2019.<br />
great, joyful clumps of extended<br />
Italian clanhood to<br />
play bocce ball … courtesy<br />
of the reach of the Ravinia<br />
Festival speakers, we could<br />
listen to strains of everything<br />
from our backyard in<br />
the summer—Ella Fitzgerald,<br />
Blood Sweat & Tears,<br />
Louis Armstrong, the CSO<br />
led by Seiji Ozawa and<br />
then James Levine—being<br />
infected by my dad with<br />
a lifelong love of watching<br />
basketball on TV, suffering<br />
operatically every<br />
time those early-years<br />
Bulls teams would excel<br />
just enough to get bounced<br />
out of the playoffs before<br />
feeling the ecstasy of the<br />
coming of our savior MJ.<br />
Christmas staples in our<br />
house were Handel’s Messiah<br />
and Dylan Thomas’s A<br />
Child’s Christmas in Wales<br />
on our stereo, midnight<br />
mass at the First Presbyterian<br />
Church.<br />
First job was mowing<br />
neighbors’ lawns with an<br />
old red Briggs and Stratton<br />
gas mower; still my favorite<br />
job of youth followed<br />
by a string of jobs like busing<br />
dishes at Highwood’s<br />
Ramada Inn, caddying at<br />
Northmoor Country Club,<br />
working the box office at<br />
Ravinia Festival, serving<br />
customers at Egg Rolls Etc.<br />
in the food court at Northbrook<br />
Court.<br />
It was Highland Park, of<br />
course, where all the formative<br />
moments of film,<br />
TV, storytelling, theatre,<br />
acting, directing, and teaching<br />
were birthed for me.<br />
My mom first infected<br />
me with a love for realism,<br />
introducing me to foreign<br />
films at the Alcyon and on<br />
WTTW. I’ll never forget<br />
her saying, “Look at those<br />
faces, Jeff, regular real<br />
people, not like the idealized<br />
glamorous stars of<br />
Hollywood.”<br />
Each of us can likely<br />
trace the beginnings of<br />
what would become lifelong<br />
passions. Among the<br />
early warning signs of my<br />
compulsion to pretend to<br />
be someone else in public I<br />
remember ...<br />
– Elvis on the kitchen<br />
table<br />
– Sister Jo and the American<br />
Conservatory Theatre<br />
at Ravinia<br />
So many influences<br />
shape us, but for hundreds<br />
of us at HPHS<br />
the force of nature that<br />
changed dozens of young<br />
lives life was Barbara June<br />
Greener Patterson, now of<br />
Nashville, Tennessee. A<br />
lifelong pal and similarly<br />
theatre-infected Highland<br />
Park classmate John Mayer<br />
wrote a book about Steppenwolf,<br />
and in it Gary Sinise<br />
remembers Barbara the<br />
tour-de force! “She would<br />
blow down the hall like<br />
she was a spinning tornado.<br />
She was a kind of inspiring<br />
teacher that I’d never had,<br />
just the way she would talk<br />
to the kids and kind of entertain<br />
us at the same time<br />
she was teaching. Barbara<br />
was able to recognize that<br />
different people needed<br />
different things. She didn’t<br />
teach or direct every single<br />
person in the same way.<br />
She recognized that this<br />
kind of person needs this<br />
kind of thing and that kind<br />
of person needs that kind of<br />
thing. And she would kind<br />
of use that and work with<br />
that, bringing out the best<br />
in us. Even though I was a<br />
kid who had a lot of trouble<br />
reading and studying in<br />
school, she gave me confidence<br />
and courage, you<br />
know?”<br />
John continues, “I sat<br />
transfixed by this very force<br />
myself in our directing<br />
class as a junior in 1973,<br />
alongside Gary and Jeff, as<br />
Mrs. Greener preached the<br />
gospel of ensemble performance,<br />
collaborative spirit,<br />
discipline, hard work, and<br />
fun! Imagine the sheer audacity<br />
of having a directing<br />
class for high-school<br />
students in which their final<br />
project was to direct a<br />
one-act or full-length play.<br />
With all the directing class<br />
projects going on, as well as<br />
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our regular school shows, it<br />
was as though we were in a<br />
stock company during high<br />
school.”<br />
Inspired by Barbara and<br />
the art-loving environment<br />
she helped foster, I remember<br />
a pivotal moment<br />
when Mr. Alsberg, the<br />
audio-visual teacher at our<br />
high school, showed us the<br />
catalog he ordered movies<br />
from so that Gary Sinise<br />
and I could rent a film we<br />
were obsessed with at that<br />
moment, On the Waterfront.<br />
Gary was Marlon<br />
Brando to me. He was my<br />
friend and artistic hero; a<br />
teenager who could barely<br />
read but assailed parts<br />
like Tartuffe and Cyrano<br />
and Jimmy Porter in Look<br />
Back in Anger on pure, instinctual,<br />
visceral talent. In<br />
my basement, we watched<br />
On the Waterfront nonstop<br />
until we ran out of money<br />
to rent both film and projector.<br />
Marlon Brando,<br />
Eva Marie Saint, Karl<br />
Malden, Lee J. Cobb, and<br />
Rod Steiger with Leonard<br />
Bernstein’s music, Elia<br />
Kazan’s direction, and<br />
Budd Schulberg’s screenplay<br />
burned a hole in our<br />
hearts. Without pausing to<br />
acknowledge it, Gary and<br />
I had become infected and<br />
our path defined—we had<br />
to do what those people<br />
were doing.<br />
For Gary and me, our<br />
theatre craze continued<br />
to grow. Gary wrote, “In<br />
January of 1974, just after<br />
I had graduated from high<br />
school in Highland Park,<br />
Illinois, I teamed up with<br />
high school classmates<br />
Rick Argosh and Leslie<br />
Wilson to put on a production<br />
of Paul Zindel’s And<br />
Miss Reardon Drinks a<br />
Little. For the production<br />
of Zindel’s play, we needed<br />
to find a space where<br />
we could stage it. My<br />
parents had a very good<br />
friend who had designed a<br />
beautiful Unitarian church<br />
on Half Day Road in Deerfield,<br />
Illinois, and it was<br />
through this family friend<br />
that I was able to secure<br />
the right to use the church<br />
for this inaugural production<br />
of the Steppenwolf<br />
Theatre Company. The<br />
name Steppenwolf came<br />
from the book by Herman<br />
Hesse, which Argosh happened<br />
to be reading at the<br />
time. No philosophical<br />
reason. It just looked good<br />
on the program.<br />
“Three more plays<br />
were produced by the<br />
1974 Steppenwolf group.<br />
Grease, which I would<br />
produce, direct and act in<br />
and The Glass Menagerie,<br />
which Argosh directed.<br />
I played Tom Wingfield<br />
and our high-school drama<br />
teacher and mentor,<br />
Barbara Patterson, played<br />
Amanda. Then there was<br />
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern<br />
Are Dead by Tom<br />
Stoppard, which would be<br />
the first teaming of Terry,<br />
Jeff, and me. The three of<br />
us connected on so many<br />
levels. It was during the<br />
run of this production,<br />
in June of 1974, that we<br />
decided that when they<br />
finished with college we<br />
would find a permanent<br />
space and would attempt<br />
to start a professional<br />
resident ensemble theatre<br />
company.”<br />
At Illinois State University’s<br />
theatre department in<br />
1974, I remember seeing A<br />
Woman Under the Influence<br />
with my new co-best<br />
friend for life, Terry Kinney.<br />
Terry and I sat slackjawed<br />
in a movie theatre<br />
in the cornfields of Normal,<br />
Illinois, and watched<br />
another movie that would<br />
define us and we became<br />
further infected. We knew<br />
then that we had to try<br />
and pretend as ruthlessly,<br />
authentically, and heartbreakingly<br />
as John Cassavetes,<br />
Gena Rowlands, and<br />
Peter Falk did.<br />
Sometime between<br />
’74 and ’76, I remember<br />
watching John Malkovich<br />
and Moira Harris in Harold<br />
Pinter’s one-act The Lover<br />
in the small theatre on the<br />
ISU campus. John and<br />
Moira were operating on<br />
pure intuition, adrenaline,<br />
and instinct, possibly beyond<br />
the capability of my<br />
other drama-crazy mates<br />
because John and Moira<br />
were genuinely crazier<br />
than any of us. They were<br />
constitutionally unable to<br />
plan what they were doing<br />
beyond saying the lines in<br />
the order Pinter had written<br />
them. Because the play<br />
was about the unknowable<br />
and the actors were unpredictable,<br />
I knew immediately<br />
and indelibly the difference<br />
between creation<br />
and presentation, between<br />
a present-tense event and<br />
a preconceived plan, between<br />
jazz and the preordained.<br />
On some level,<br />
watching John and Moira,<br />
I now realize I caught a<br />
glimpse of Steppenwolf’s<br />
ethos; we had to find plays<br />
we loved, we had to do<br />
them together and our rehearsals<br />
would be largely<br />
devoted to making our<br />
footprints disappear.<br />
Okay, I don’t remember<br />
saying this, but I suppose<br />
I did—maybe before Terry<br />
Kinney, H.E. Baccus, Nancy<br />
Evans, Moira Harris,<br />
John Malkovich, Laurie<br />
Metcalf, Alan Wilder, and<br />
I piled into a few cars in<br />
1976 headed to a basement<br />
theatre in Highland Park<br />
that Gary had secured.<br />
Perhaps I said it sometime<br />
in those first few years of<br />
plays in the basement—<br />
anyway, Randi Reed says<br />
I proclaimed to the entire<br />
group that “we can change<br />
the face of American theatre!”<br />
We had made the act of<br />
connecting to each other<br />
our artistic god. It was<br />
the best way to grow, and<br />
we desperately wanted to<br />
get good. It was the most<br />
ridiculously fun way to<br />
work, and it was for us<br />
the most compelling form<br />
of storytelling. Finally,<br />
it was the greatest form<br />
of self-determination we<br />
non-writing actors could<br />
imagine. It was the way we<br />
could truly own our work.<br />
In our minds, we were the<br />
artistic sons and daughters<br />
of every collaboration that<br />
inspired us—Monty Python,<br />
Robert Altman movies,<br />
Saturday Night Live,<br />
John Cassavetes films, I<br />
Love Lucy episodes, Ingmar<br />
Bergman films, Second<br />
City TV, Martin Scorcese<br />
films. One sublime indulgence<br />
of youth is believing<br />
that you will blind the world<br />
with your talent—we were<br />
guilty of every bit of that<br />
hubris.<br />
In 1975, Steppenwolf<br />
incorporated as a not-forprofit,<br />
and it was in 1976,<br />
after a series of meetings at<br />
ISU with fellow classmates<br />
of Jeff and Terry’s, that the<br />
current incarnation of Steppenwolf<br />
Theatre began.<br />
The nine original members<br />
were myself, Terry and<br />
Jeff, H.E. Baccus, Nancy<br />
Evans, Moira Harris, John<br />
Malkovich, Laurie Metcalf,<br />
and Alan Wilder. (Our gifted<br />
high-school pal Kevin<br />
Rigdon designed all of our<br />
sets and lights for years and<br />
designed our current mainstage<br />
theatre before moving<br />
his remarkable talent to<br />
Houston’s Alley Theatre.)<br />
ISU asked me to give a<br />
commencement speech,<br />
and within it I shared this<br />
with the combined majors<br />
in the arts:<br />
An artistic life is inevitably<br />
full of beautiful<br />
highs and heart-challenging<br />
lows. When you and<br />
art have fallen hopelessly<br />
in love and decided to tie<br />
the knot, you can be sure<br />
that your marriage, if it is<br />
to last through sickness<br />
and health, forsaking all<br />
others, will be tested to its<br />
very core, repeatedly.<br />
The hardest most soultesting<br />
times in my adult<br />
life arose out of periods<br />
when I couldn’t figure out<br />
how to get hired to do the<br />
work I loved.<br />
When I ventured outside<br />
of my precious Steppenwolf<br />
nest in the late 1980s,<br />
I felt for the first time true<br />
soul-challenging failure as<br />
an artist.<br />
The most pernicious,<br />
evil outcome of those periods<br />
of artistic starvation<br />
was envy. Bitter, crippling,<br />
rage-filled jealousy of<br />
anyone in my field, especially<br />
of my closest artist<br />
friends who in my mind<br />
were doing better than me.<br />
Envy was the chief culprit<br />
amidst a crowded field of<br />
self-worth issues that landed<br />
me in my early 30s on<br />
a therapist’s couch for the<br />
better part of five years.<br />
I think it was because of<br />
the all the beginnings I had<br />
been blessed with in Highland<br />
Park that I came out<br />
of that period replenished<br />
with my love for my art intact<br />
and a vastly diminished<br />
need to compare myself to<br />
others. I rediscovered what<br />
had always fed my heart—<br />
the joy of being inspired by<br />
those around me.<br />
Eight years ago, I miraculously<br />
found myself<br />
cast in Shonda Rhimes’s<br />
Scandal. Scandal was pure<br />
actor heaven—a culture<br />
of great camaraderie and<br />
massive challenge I truly<br />
never thought I would find<br />
post-Steppenwolf. I bring<br />
it up to offer another truth<br />
about the artistic life—you<br />
never know when your life<br />
will transform—there is no<br />
recipe, no timeline, no map<br />
for how to discover and<br />
rediscover your growing,<br />
ever-changing, truest self.<br />
There are so many<br />
people from my Highland<br />
Park beginnings to whom I<br />
owe thanks that I will undoubtedly<br />
leave some out,<br />
but among those I feel forever<br />
indebted to—<br />
Rose Boghasen and<br />
Mark Alison: Through<br />
their love of history and<br />
fiction they taught me<br />
many things, chief among<br />
them was their deep empathy<br />
for the human condition<br />
that would help form<br />
another basic characteristic<br />
of Steppenwolf’s work.<br />
First resident playwright<br />
and fellow graduate of<br />
ISU Dan Ursini put it this<br />
way: “There is a tension<br />
in the work that to me<br />
defined the core of Steppenwolf’s<br />
signature accomplishment.<br />
Time and<br />
again they produced plays<br />
with characters who were<br />
deeply alienated and hopeless,<br />
and they presented<br />
them in a way clarifying<br />
the moments of redeeming<br />
intimacy and connection<br />
which yet occur, even in<br />
the most desolate circumstances.”<br />
Thanks also to:<br />
• HPHS’s Focus on the<br />
Arts<br />
• Joe Pollak and the Caedmon<br />
record catalog<br />
• our first board of directors,<br />
hello Larry Block<br />
• Bruce Wilson, our first<br />
board president<br />
• Tim Evans, our first employee<br />
Thank you, Highland<br />
Park, for letting me be a<br />
part of this 150th birthday,<br />
for giving me this time to<br />
remember my roots, for<br />
helping me figure out how<br />
I might contribute something<br />
to the world, for introducing<br />
me to a craft that<br />
is endlessly mysterious and<br />
precious to me. It was here<br />
that I learned indelibly and<br />
forever that the reward in<br />
the work is not fame or<br />
fortune, but the sheer joy<br />
of doing it. Thank you for<br />
always nurturing and protecting<br />
an environment of<br />
meritocracy, self-determination,<br />
trust, respect, and<br />
challenge. And finally,<br />
thank you, Highland Park,<br />
for being a place that has<br />
never forgotten its overriding<br />
love for what it means<br />
to be human.
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Ravinia<br />
From Page 22<br />
After being shuttered for two years during<br />
the Great Depression, Ravinia reopened in<br />
1936 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.<br />
Ravinia has been the summer home of the<br />
CSO ever since.<br />
Ravinia favorite Benny Goodman made<br />
headlines in 1938 for leading a racially<br />
integrated band.<br />
Barry Manilow taped his Emmy-winning live<br />
television special at Ravinia in 1975.<br />
Inside the original music pavilion,<br />
audiences gathered beneath Chinese<br />
lanterns.<br />
Louis Armstrong performed eight times at<br />
Ravinia between 1956 and 1967.<br />
Then-Senator Barack Obama and legendary<br />
pianist Van Cliburn were eager to meet each<br />
other at Ravinia’s 2005 gala.<br />
Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin performed eight times at Ravinia, starting in 2003. The final<br />
full-length concert of her once-in-many-lifetimes career was performed at Ravinia on Sept.<br />
3, 2017.<br />
nal full-length concert occurred<br />
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Ravinia created a series of original<br />
Stephen Sondheim productions<br />
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Michael Cerveris, and Patti Lu-<br />
Pone, who would go onto win a<br />
Tony for her re-creation of the<br />
title role in Gypsy on Broadway,<br />
a performance she originated at<br />
Ravinia.<br />
Central to Ravinia’s mission<br />
is its development of new artists<br />
and new audiences. For<br />
five decades, Ravinia has made<br />
music more accessible through<br />
education programs now called<br />
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Sistema Ravinia,<br />
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The Jazz Mentors and Scholars,<br />
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programs, teams the best Chicago<br />
high-school musicians with<br />
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Steans Music Institute is an<br />
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In addition to its obvious cultural<br />
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is also an economic engine<br />
for Highland Park, attracting visitors<br />
to the area, providing jobs<br />
(especially for young people just<br />
entering the workforce, many of<br />
whom graduated right from our<br />
Pavilion stage), supplementing<br />
the salaries of first responders,<br />
sharing revenue with the city,<br />
providing positive publicity, and<br />
supporting many worthwhile<br />
causes. Just more than half of<br />
the revenue it takes to run Ravinia<br />
each year comes from ticket<br />
sales, and the rest is contributed<br />
by corporate and private sponsors.<br />
For information about Ravinia,<br />
including a more detailed<br />
history, visit Ravinia.org.
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Happy 150th Highland Park<br />
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Note from the 5th &6th Generation owners Mark &Brett Williams:<br />
Since we moved our business up to Highland Park in the late 60’s we have enjoyed<br />
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CONGRATULATIONS,<br />
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COM•MU•NI•TY BANK:<br />
noun<br />
A commercial bank that derives<br />
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community where it operates<br />
and is not affiliated with a multibanking<br />
holding company.<br />
Over 60 years<br />
of Community Banking<br />
First Bank of Highland Park prides itself in giving back to the community and meeting<br />
the needs of our neighbors. We are an independently owned community bank that<br />
derives our sources of funds from, and lends money to, our community.<br />
We firmly believe that it is our duty as a responsible corporate citizen to support our<br />
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Happy 150th,<br />
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