

Wilmette News Agency employees, 1920s.
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The Cold War on Washington Avenue
By 1950, as American troops fought in the Korean winter and the chill of the Cold War settled over the world, U.S. Army planners had come to realize that they needed to know much more about the icy regions that lay between America and the Soviet Union. Most urgently, they needed to know how to build things—roads, radar stations, underground bunkers, airfields, missile silos—in places where the ground is forever frozen, the ice is a mile deep, and the snowfall never melts. This intensive research program required a special laboratory like no other, and in 1951 the Army found just the right place for it: an abandoned laundry at 1215 Washington Avenue in Wilmette, half a block west of Green Bay Road.
(From Volume 30, Number 3, Winter 2006/2007, pp. 3-4) Read Entire Article
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