The Glencoe Historical Society has removed the name of Sherman Booth from a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed cottage after discovering the wide-ranging extent of Booth’s racist efforts to reduce the ...

A cottage in Glencoe's Ravine Bluffs neighborhood designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is pictured on May 1, 2019. With Booth’s history now uncovered, Parzen said Landmarks Illinois supported the ...

The group put racially restrictive covenants on the properties. Within a decade, the Black population of Glencoe dropped from 9.9% to 4.9%, she said. It’s now about 1%, she said.