After Milwaukee Street was graded and paved, the convent looked like a fortress suspended in air. For half its lifetime, the Notre Dame convent was one of the largest buildings in the city and a ...

YOU COULD CALL IT THE FOUNDATION ON WHICH ELM GROVE WAS BUILT. THE 170-YEAR-OLD SCHOOL SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME CONVENT IS A CENTURY OLDER THAN THE VILLAGE ITSELF, AND JUST TWO YEARS YOUNGER THAN THE ...