Lake Forest College Students Taking Part in Historical Dig

Students at Lake Forest College are taking part in an archaeological project at a national historic landmark in Chicago this summer.

The college and the Society of Architectural Historians are partnering in a project that includes an archaeological dig on the grounds of the Charnley-Persky House in the city’s Gold Coast neighborhood, according to WTTW’s Chicago Tonight program.

“Urban archaeology allows us to bring the past to light in ways that inform our present understandings of our great American cities,” archaeology professor Rebecca Graff, who is leading the excavation.

The house was designed by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright - two of the city’s most notable architects of all-time - in the 1890s.

more via WTTW Chicago Tonight