39 Grosse Point (Evanston) (IL 2)
August 2, 2003
latitude 42º 3' 50" N
longitude 87º 40' 33.6" W

Built in 1873, this lighthouse has a very impressive "keepers" house at the end of a street filled with impressive faculty houses (from Northwestern people one assumes).  It now is an active museum with the original 2^nd order Fresnel lens still in place an operated by the city of Evanston.