222 S Kensington

This Queen Anne Style home was built in 1894 by an architect with the name of Tilden who was also the first resident. Previous owners included David Sackett who lived in this home from 1937-1958. He is a 1952 graduate of Lyons Township High School who was inducted into their hall of fame in 2002. Dr. Sackett, who passed away in 2015, was a neurosurgeon and pioneer of evidence based medicine. He was a Principal Investigator in the trials that showed, for the first time anywhere, the life-saving benefits of aspirin for patients with threatened stroke and threatened heart attack. He authored 10 books, 50 chapters for others and wrote over 300 papers. Dr. Sackett went on to live in Canada in his later years and won many awards, most notably he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, and was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and McMaster University in Canada. He was appointed as Honorary Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, at the West China University of Medical Sciences, and Adjunct Professor of the University of Ottawa, Canada. He received the Gairdner award in 2009 which Canadians consider the “Baby Nobel” and was an Officer of the Order of Canada.