The largest governor’s mansion in the United States needed an update, so MK Pritzker, first lady of Illinois, enlisted interior designer Michael S. Smith to help her take the challenge.

Pritzker wrote about that update, as well as all of the restorations of the mansion over the. years by governors and their wives in her new book, “A House That Made History: The Illinois Governor’s Mansion: Legacy of an Architectural Treasure.”

Pritzker will talk about the restoration and her new book at 1:15 p.m. Sept. 29 at the Nineteenth Century Charitable Association, 178 Forest Ave., Oak Park. Tickets are $62 for the lecture and a noon lunch; $31 for the lecture only. For reservations, call 708-386-2729 or visit ncca.memberclicks.net.

Gert Johnson, co-chair of the association’s development committee

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