200 S LaGrange Road

200 South La Grange Road is a colonial revival-influenced vernacular that once belonged to Edward E. Gore, President of the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry and of the American Institute of Accountants. In 1922 the Illinois Journal of Commerce called Gore a “genius in normalcy.” He was also president of the War Emergency Union of La Grange, and Mrs. Gore was president of the La Grange branch of the League of Women Voters. Mr. Gore helped coordinate the Manhattan Project and, in 1949, was appointed Chicago’s Deputy Coordinator of Civil Defense.