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Report Details Wisconsin Canoe Tragedy
WILL ONE WINNETKA W BECOME REALITY?
BY BILL MCLEAN
INNETKA - With the contentious One Winnetka project now headed to the Village Council March 17, some residents may be wondering about the status of Conney’s Pharmacy. From the beginning the drugstore, which has been a mainstay of Winnetka since opening in 1937, has been a hold out in the project. The proposed One Winnetka project, designed by Chicago architect Lucien Lagrange, is a mixed use building featuring apartments on the upper floors, underground parking, and retail space on the first and second floors. If approved, it will be built on what is known as the “Fell Property,” on the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Elm Street where the former Fell Department Store was located. The village’s Design Review Board and Plan Commission have recommended the project for approval. However, the Zoning Board of Appeals recommended against the project. Lagrange’s architectural drawings have carefully designed a building around Conney’s at 736 Elm Street. As currently designed, a row of three-story buildings designed to look like townhouses would sit to the east of Conney’s, while a towering fivestory building would sit to the
BY EMILY SPECTRE DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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hen a group of college-age friends realized four people were missing from their Wisconsin lake house party Jan. 3 they did not assume the worst. They searched the home, looked around the property, and figured their friends would show up later. “I remember thinking that they are probably on a stupid drunk adventure,” one man told investigators. It wasn’t until the next morning, when an overturned canoe was seen on a channel of the partially frozen lake that the seriousness of the situation was clear. The celebration of 13 friends, many from the North Shore, had turned into a horrible tragedy. A report released this week by Continued on PG 14
Artist rendering of proposed One Winnetka project, viewing from Elm Street Bridge. COURTESY OF ONEWINNETKA.COM
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