The land has had manyuses over the years, but it is probably best remembered for being the site of the Majestic Hills ski area, which operated from 1957 until 1988. The land previously had been a golf course for William Grunow Sr.’s lakefront estate. The Grunow family converted the land to a chicken farm, and in the 1950s, Grunow’s son, William Grunow Jr., converted the site into a ski hill by moving 600,000 yards of earth, he told the Tribune in 1966, to add 80 feet of vertical drop for an intermediate hill and 100 feet for an expert hill.
