Chocolate Drop: Calumet Country Club (Donald Ross, Chicago) to Shut Down
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Calumet Country Club — a Donald Ross design in Homewood, Illinois (just south of Chicago) — has closed permanently, according to W&E Ventures, the depressingly named company that owns the property. Read a Patch article on this development here.
W&E, which purchased Calumet in 2020, cited an effort "to prevent vagrancy and security issues" as its rationale for shutting down "all golf course operations" and removing "all infrastructure throughout the property."
You know what else might have helped make the golf course safer? Reopening and restaffing it.
Anyway, Calumet has been struggling for a while, but it was an important fixture in the Chicago golf scene (the former home club of Fried Egg founder Andy Johnson, in fact), and I'm sad to see it go.
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