1990's

Assembly Park History

1990

• 1990-1991- Lake Delavan was refilled.

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• Geneva Lakes Kennel Club opens - Offering Greyhound dog racing.

• The Lake was restocked with fish in 1990 and 1991, the lake Level was dropped to save the lake 1989.

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March
• The first and last issues of the Assembly Bark or the Barker were published on a bi weekly basis. The Assembly Bark, or "the Barker" was a bi weekly newsletter published in 1990. Below are the historic first and last issues of The Barker. The Assembly Bark only had two issues. The Assembly Bark covered recent and upcoming events, weddings, news of the time, APYC updates, movie reviews and much more. Click here for Volume 1. Volume 2

• Fish restocking of Lake Delavan begins.

• Spring 1990 Kmart opens in Delavan

• Spring 1990 to Spring 1992- Fishing banned on Lake Delavan.

• Assembly Park Association Swim & Beach Tags were issued to the members of the Park.
• Assembly Park Association Permits were issued to the members of the Park.

• The permits were for their cars, golf carts were not permit except with handicapped permission ones.

• Chuck Mazurowski made them the permit and tags for the park.

• Thanks to Arlene Frank for this information.

October
• The first annual Tim O’Connor Memorial Golf Outing. Proceeds benefit the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center.
1991

• The Lake was restocked with fish in 1990 and 1991, the lake Level was dropped to save the lake 1989.

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• When you would cash a check at Sentry, before cash stations, you would be charged a quarter and get this chip to spend at Sentry.

1992

• Removed No fishing signs which were posted since 1989 were removed and fishing was allow again.

1993

• Heavy rainfall negates improvements made in nutrient reduction in lake. Over time, nutrient levels begin to increase.

1994
1995
June
• At the Annual meeting voted to discontinued Park Water system due to the deterioration of the water system.

• It was determined it would cost each owner more than the cost of a new individual well to make the necessary repairs to the park water system.
October
• The Park Water system was turned off.

World Events

Presidents

• George H. W. Bush • Bill Clinton

1990

February 11th
• Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison.
April 24th
• Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope.
August 2nd
• Gulf War begins.
• The first ban of smoking in bars is passed in California.
December 20th
• Tim Berners-Lee publishes the first web site, which described the World Wide Web project.

1991

February 28th
• The Gulf War ends in US withdrawal.
Mach 3rd
• A video captures the beating of motorist Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
July 22nd
• Serial killerJeffrey Dahmer arrested.
December 26th
• Dissolution of the Soviet Union and independence of 15 former Soviet republics.

1992

April 6th
• The Bosnian War begins.

1993

February 23rd
• 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
December
• Nelson Mandela dies.

1994

April 22nd
• Former US President Richard Nixon dies at the age of 81.
May 10th
• End of apartheid in South Africa and election of Nelson Mandela.
June 12th
• Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman are murdered outside the Simpson home.
July 5th
• Amazon founded.

1995

April 19th
• Timothy McVeigh bombs the Federal Building in Oklahoma City
October 3rd
• O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder.

1996

July 23rd
• Release date of the Nintendo 64 video game console in Japan.
July 27th
• Centennial Olympic Park bombing.
December 26th
• Killing of JonBenét Ramsey.

1997

July 17th
• The F. W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
August 2nd
• Netflix is launched.
August 31st
• Diana, Princess of Wales is killed in a car accident in Paris.
September 5th
• Death of Mother Teresa.

1998

May 14th
• Death of Frank Sinatra.
September 4th
• Google is founded.

1999

April 20th
• The Columbine High School massacre in Colorado.
July 16th
• John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash.
1996
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January 1st
• Rob Mohr hired as the new caretaker of the Park, and currently is the Park's caretaker.
1997

• Asphalt paths, both the south and north paths, to the park's beach were completed.

• The caretaker's house received a facelift with a new paint job.

Summer
• The Gazebo near the beach was replaced, with funds raised by the Assembly Park Ladies Auxiliary.

• "Memory Bricks", inscribed with the names of loved ones, were purchased for $50 each, and placed near the entrances of the gazebo.

• Thousands of people no longer gather here to listen to lectures in a crowded auditorium.

• Yet, one by one, individuals and small groups have left there marks or initials in the Gazebo.
1998
Items in the time capsule:
Cellular phone,
Time Magazines,
Beanie Babies,
Map of Delavan,
Computer game,
Pier waiting list

• Assembly Park celebrated the Centennial Year

• New playground equipment was completed

• New park benches were installed replacing the benches installed in mid 1930's.

• The caretaker's house received a new roof.

1999
October
• The park water system was turned off and discontinued.