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Housewalk News

The Mount Prospect Historical Society Board of Directors has chosen to cancel its 33rd Annual Holiday Housewalk for December, 2020, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  The  Society will be holding a virtual housewalk of dollhouses as our holiday fundraiser this year.  Please join us for this delightful event. Stay tuned for registration details. Watch a preview below:

“We offer a huge thank-you to our six realtor sponsors – Bill Farrell of ReMax Suburban, Kelly Janowiak and Laura Parisi of @ Properties, Mary O’Malley of @ Properties, Jim Regan of ReMax Suburban, Judy Muniz of Habloft LLC, and Tom and Mary Zander of Picket Fence Realty.”

This unique tour will be available for viewing from December 15, 2020 to February 15, 2021. The cost is $10 per household. Any questions, please call us at (847) 392-9006 Tuesday-Thursday, 9-4 pm. Please note the office is closed Friday-Monday. Email us anytime for quicker assistance at info@mtphistory.org.

Mount Prospect Partnership Launches “Pandemic Reflections” to Preserve Memories

The Mount Prospect Historical Society has teamed up with the Mount Prospect Community Engagement Committee and the Mount Prospect Public Library, to collect and preserve for the future local memories of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-21. The Historical Society and the Library began collecting essays, photos, artwork, news articles and videos via the Historical Society’s website in June and the Village joined the effort in the fall. 

This time will go down in history as a momentous one that is hard to forget – like The Great Depression, the World Wars and September 11, 2001. While right now we long to once again walk free and maskless at concerts, sporting events, movies and crowded restaurants, one day we will undoubtedly reminisce about the Year of COVID and relate our shared hardships over holiday dinners to those who don’t remember or were not yet born. 

It is important, therefore, that the remembrances conveyed are accurate and not distorted by poor memories. So, they must be preserved now.

The Pandemic Reflections team believes that Thanksgiving presents an ideal time for Mount Prospect residents to begin recording their thoughts, emotions, and memories for posterity. So, the group has posed a question related to the season, 

Has COVID impacted your thankfulness this year? How? 

. . . and is asking residents and others associated with Mount Prospect to share short thoughts via the “Padlet” board at (https://www.mtphist.org/padlet/).

More substantial entries, such as essays, photos, videos, art and more can be found on our Pandemic Moments page.  Also, be sure to watch for new monthly questions starting in 2021 and make contributing your thoughts as an ongoing project.