Note: This column has been updated to correct the spelling of Judy Hasenjaeger s name.
With the 2020 pandemic scuttling the Mount Prospect Historical Society s 33rd Annual Holiday Housewalk, the group is using a new idea and toys from the past to save its biggest fundraiser of the year. It was my first idea, right out of the gate, says Emily Dattilo, 27, a Mount Prospect native hired in July as the society s new director. Forced to scrap the idea of hordes of strangers paying $28 to take a December walking tour through historically significant homes in the village, she turned to the society s collection of antique dollhouses.