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New Oakbrook Terrace Historical Society celebrates city’s past

New Oakbrook Terrace Historical Society remembering, holding onto city’s past

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Oakbrook Terrace Historical Society board member Bob Shanahan shows the plan for how the Sears Roebuck Homart home originally looked when it was built in 1950-51 by the family of former city clerk Lorraine Fik.

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This poster board shows a Sears Roebuck Homart kit home being delivered and built in Oakbrook Terrace.

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The stamped floor joints in the basement offer proof that the house where the Oakbrook Terrace Historical Society has been storing its artifacts is a Sears Homart home.

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This photo of the threshing crew on Brinkmann farm in 1904 was sent by Fritz Brinkmann's grandson who now lives in Wisconsin. The farmhouse stood at the site of the current Oakbrook Terrace city hall.

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Volunteer Maggie Murphy shows some of the artifacts and photos the Oakbrook Terrace Historical Society has collected since being formed less than a year ago.

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This city-owned house where the Oakbrook Terrace Historical Society has its headquarters is set for demolition unless the city changes its plans. The house recently was documented to be a Sears Homart home.

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The Oakbrook Terrace Historical Society formed less than a year ago and has been making exiciting discoveries about the tiny city that was incorporated in 1958. The biggest find has been that the city-owned house where the historical society has been storing its artifacts recently was authenticated to be Sears Homart home, one of only six verified in the country. But the city has plans to tear down the house to build a new police station. Historical society members come before the City Council on Feb. 12 to see if another alternative can be reached.