National Ice Cream Day

Hey Y’all, Happy National Ice Cream Day. Check out these two photos of historic cones from Skokie Public Library and Mount Prospect Public Library.

Girls Eating Ice Cream. c. 1920. Skokie Historical Society via Skokie Public Library. Skokie History Project.
Rober Ninnemann’s Ice Cream Parlor, 1925. Mount Prospect Public Library, Mount Prospect History.

More of Skokie can be found here, and Mount Prospect here. For everything on ice cream on the IDHH, click here.