Barrington's White House is a landmark on West Main Street—from mansion, to hospital in 1918, to tearoom and antique store, to nursing home and real estate offices, and now a restoration of its original grandeur for community cultural events and private gatherings.
In the years from 1938 to 1950, when Ernest Byfield orchestrated the flamboyant ambience of his Pump Room at the Ambassador East Hotel, Chicago was not flyover country for the stars of stage and screen.
It is Memorial Day, at 7.30 a.m., and at White Memorial Cemetery on Cuba Road elderly and middle-aged members of American Legion Post #158 and of VFW Post #7706 gather at the cemetery gates and march in carrying their colors and the Stars and Stripes.
