Cupid Strikes At This Cache
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My son Jason, who is a senior at Niles West High School, has gone out on several dates with Kelly a senior at West also. My son caches with me every so often. He set up the user name of frumpalumpa last year, but chose not to keep up with logging his finds. One of Jason and Kelly's dates was to introduce Kelly to caching. So they stopped by some neighborhood caches. They had a lot of fun caching.
Jason told me he wanted to hide a cache with a note included, asking Kelly to go steady with him. So we drove around looking for a suitable place for a cache and Jason found this statue that sort of looks like cupid. It probably is not cupid, but we are calling it cupid. We then set up a cache called Proesel Park. The description was all about Henry Proesel and is written at the bottom of this cache.
Jason decided that 11/5/10 was the date he was going to have Kelly find the note which asks her to go steady with him. To be sure this plan was going to work without interruption, we decided not to publish the cache until after Kelly had found the note and hopefully said yes.
Jason told me that Kelly did find the cache, she read the note, gave him a big hug and agreed to go steady with him. You can see the exact copy of that note below.
Warning: Be careful who you choice to go caching with here, Cupid is watching you.
Here is the original cache description that Kelly read:
Henry Proesel
Originally incorporated in 1911 as Tessville, the Village enjoyed for the twenty-five years the rather dubious distinction of being a "saloon infested" farm town.
Johann Tess and George Proesel, two early pioneers searching for land at a cheap price, founded the farm community on the northern outskirts of Chicago. It wound up abutting the city, which led to the spillover of taverns across the line and into Tessville.
The saloonkeepers banded together in 1922 and officially incorporated the Village. This was so they would have the power to grant liquor licenses. A heavy burden was placed on the farmers in the form of skyrocketing taxes. The revenue was needed to pay for the water pipes for the growing town, and by 1920 an even larger Village Hall had been constructed.
These tillers of the soil were irate but essentially powerless, at least until the mid-1920's, when the introduction of electric rail service came to Niles Center, since renamed Skokie, and forced a change in Tessville's civic and social life.
At the end of the decade and into the 1930's, Tessville was establishing itself as a popular haven for people who needed to commute into Chicago but did not want to live there. The election of Henry Proesel, a grandson of the Village's co-founder, as mayor in 1931 was seen as a positive move for the town's prosperity. An early move by Proesel during the Great Depression was to assign Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers the monumental task of planting 10,000 elm trees along all Village streets. In 1934, an ordinance limiting the number of liquor licenses was passed and became Village law. It served as a model for the Illinois State Liquor Control Laws.
By 1936, the name of the Village had been changed to Lincolnwood, a move that substantially changed its image for the better.
The practice of offering large parcels of relatively inexpensive land continued over the years, but at the same time Lincolnwood was able to keep taxes attractively low by fostering the growth of light industry and by attracting such giants-to-be as Bell & Howell. The opening in 1951 of the Edens Expressway, though, probably had the most profound impact on the growth in the Village's history. It offered easy and fast access to and from Chicago, causing the Lincolnwood population to grow from 3,072 in 1950 to more than 12,000 in 1970, a figure which has since remained fairly constant.
Mayor Proesel ended his 46 years in office in 1977, a record mostly unmatched by any other mayor in American history.
Today, Proesel Park has almost everything one can think of in a park. It has a community swimming pool, basketball courts, tennis courts, a big shelter, swings and slides, skate area, play area for tots, picnic area, sand volley ball court, softball/baseball field, soccer ball fields and now a cache.
Additional Hints
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