History of the Chain of Lakes.
Sports Clubs of the late 1800s/early 1900s located in the Chain of Lakes in Illinois often became hotels as in the case of the Waltonian, Mineola, Last Resort and Columbia Hotel.
This last one began in 1887 as the Columbian Pleasure Club, but that had a different meaning from what we might expect a pleasure club to be today. In 1896, the Columbian Pleasure Club had a big fire which burned down two large dorms where a concrete home now sits near the Gateway House near Electric harbor bar and motel. and the channel leading to petite Lake from Fox Lake.
I always love these little tidbits of lost history, especially since we do so much boating on the Chain of Lakes.
--DaCoot
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