This article was found in a 1921 issue of the "LaGrange
Citizen" newspaperwww.FranzosenbuschHeritageProject.org Home
This article was found in a 1921 issue of the "LaGrange
Citizen" newspaper
BEGIN WORK FOR NEW BRIDGE
Large Gang of Men on North Fifth Avenue* Start Grading--Other Road Plans
The first work of permanently improving North Fifth avenue has been started. A large gang of men are now busy cutting down trees for the cut-off and grading the new road way. This will be followed by grading up the approaches for the bridge that is to cross Salt Creek, eliminating the dangerous hill and curve.
There was some delay in letting the contract until the state highway department approved the plans but after the contract was signed no time was lost in getting started on the work. It is hoped to have the bridge completed and the approaches all in this fall so the ground can thoroughly settle ready for paving next spring. At the same time the channel of the creek is being changed so as to permit the straightening of Twenty-second street.
Paving in LaGrange
The road committee of the county board recently visited LaGrange to see what needed to be done in this village and LaGrange Park next year when the Fifth avenue paving will be extended from Roosevelt road on the north to Joliet road on the south.
The members of the committee expressed themselves as willing to pay through LaGrange and LaGrange Park provided the villages will co-operate to the extent of continuing the paving to the curbs. The county and state pay for an eighteen foot road way and if villages or cities want a wider street, they must arrange for paving the intervening space.
The committee feel very much dissatisfied with East Burlington avenue which is only eighteen feet wide. Rather than pave a narrow strip through Fifth avenue, the committee said they would do nothing inside the villages if the authorities did not want to co-operate.
North Fifth avenue is far from satisfactory and South Fifth is rapidly wearing out and will soon have to be paved. At the same time the board of local improvements will doubtless consider the widening of Fifth avenue in the business district.
*Fifth Avenue is now called Mannheim Avenue and LaGrange Road.
This article was found in a 1921 issue of the "LaGrange Citizen" newspaper
Last Modified: 01/13/2004