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To celebrate the unveiling of our new exhibition, History Center members are invited to attend our exhibition opening alongside curators, students, and faculty from Lake Forest College. Deeply Rooted and Rising High: African American Experiences in Lake Forest traces the history of the Black community in Lake Forest. The exhibit features stories, photographs and artifacts shared by residents past and present, and is based on research and oral histories conducted over the past two years by History Center staff, our community advisory team, and interns and fellows from Lake Forest College, Loyola University, and the University of Chicago. Funding for research and the exhibit comes from an American Historical Association/National Endowment for the Humanities grant, the Grainger Foundation, and Illinois Humanities.