Life in Libertyville in the 1920s was full of excitement. The village was growing by leaps and bounds, with new buildings downtown and new subdivisions expanding the town’s boundaries. In 1920, the population of the village was 2125. By the end of the decade in 1929, the number of folk in Libertyville had almost doubled to 4100.

Some services and amenities that we take for granted made their first appearance in the 1920s: mail delivery directly to homes, parking lines downtown, paved residential streets.

Other aspects of village life that appeared on the scene in the 1920s included: a new building for the public library, a new hospital, the North Shore Electric Railroad’s spur through Libertyville. Many new buildings were built downtown, including the Public Service Building (the Harris Bank building today), the Dall Building (which houses the Liberty Cleaners today), the Lake County National Bank (Libertyville Bank & Trust). Plans to build a Masonic Temple were begun in 1923 and the building was completed in the 1930s.

On other parts of our website you can read about crime, entertainment, schools, religion, businesses, and people of the 1920s in Libertyville. In this “Village Life” section you will find a little bit of everything else to fill in the picture of what Libertyville was like in the 1920s.

The postcard images below, of Libertyville scenes in the 1920s, are courtesy of the Libertyville-Mundelein Historical Society.

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Condell Hospital

Cook Memorial Library

Fire!

The Railroads

The Real Estate Boom

Clippings

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