Growing Up In Mount Prospect

Happy 4th of July!! Enjoy these photos from the 1957 and 1958 4th of July parades.

1. Lions Club float
2. Campfire Girls float, featuring their "outer space recruit ship"
3. The Gift Shop float parked in the staging area at Lions Park
4. The Keefer's and Van Driel's float approaches the intersection of Northwest Highway and Emerson Street

If you were to look at a map of Mount Prospect from the 1870s, you probably wouldn’t recognize many of the street names. Eggleston’s original map of Mount Prospect included street names like Carpenter Street, Park Avenue, and Center Avenue, along with many others that were later changed during the Busse-Wille Resubdivision in the early 1900s.