{"id":5956,"date":"2023-11-03T14:54:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T14:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/alumniauthors\/?p=5956"},"modified":"2023-11-03T14:54:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T14:54:58","slug":"mount-prospect-historic-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/alumniauthors\/?p=5956","title":{"rendered":"Mount Prospect Historic Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Prospect has undergone dramatic changes since its incorporation as a village in 1917. At that time, it was a small rural community of 300 people, but after population booms in the 1920s, 1950s, and 1960s, the town blossomed into a bustling suburb of Chicago. Out of these changes came landmarks like Randhurst Shopping Center and beloved local businesses like Hotter Than Mother&#8217;s Music. These new additions sprang up alongside&#8211;and in place of&#8211;older sites. The transformation continues to this day, making each generation familiar with a different version of the town. Such significant developments can sometimes make local historic sites difficult to locate; the history, however, has not disappeared. It remains in the landscape, the bits and pieces left behind, and the collective memories of its residents. <em>Mount Prospect Historic Sites<\/em> aims to connect people to the history that can still be found all around Mount Prospect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Prospect has undergone dramatic changes since its incorporation as a village in 1917. At that time, it was a small rural community of 300 people, but after population booms in the 1920s, 1950s, and 1960s, the town blossomed into a bustling suburb of Chicago. Out of these changes came landmarks like Randhurst Shopping Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[23317],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/alumniauthors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/alumniauthors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/alumniauthors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/alumniauthors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/alumniauthors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/alumniauthors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5984,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/alumniauthors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions\/5984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/alumniauthors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/alumniauthors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/alumniauthors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}