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This article appeared in the April 7, 1927 issue of the "LaGrange Citizen" newspaper

BROADVIEW BEGINS $500,000 PROGRAM

Former Sleepy Town to Spend Many Thousands -- Catches Fever from Westchester

Broadview, the village to the east of Westchester, known to many motorists as the place which bothered motorists, has undergone an awakening.  The village which for years has only numbered a nominal amount of houses and inhabitants, and has been more remarkable for the peaceful farms than the rust of business, has awakened to the hurry and bustle of modern life.

Situated as it is next to the booming new subdivision of Westchester called the "wonder suburb of Chicago," it has taken the infection of progress and gone in for a mammoth development, which is any other neighborhood would be remarkable, although here it is over shadowed by its sister village to be.

Broadview, which includes among its confines the Seventh Day Adventist College of Broadview seminary, lies along Roosevelt road.  Its west boundary marks meet those of Westchester.  Its south line is Twenty-second street.  East it has two boundary lines.  South of Roosevelt road First avenue is the boundary, while north of Roosevelt, Ninth avenue marks its confines.  The village runs north to Harrison Street in one part while in another it ceases at Roosevelt road.

For this area an amount of nearly $600,000 is to be spent in modern improvements. The hitherto waterless and sewerless villagers are to live in comfort when they are completed.

For, all joking aside, a very ambitious and comprehensive plan for the village has been worked out by the well-known firm of engineers, Consoler, Older and Quinlan, who are in addition to other noted duties, have the Westchester area under their care.

Water mains, sewers, and paving are the three projects now being constructed in Broadview.  For them the sum of $180,000 is to be paid.  And for sewers $225,000 is to be spent, to make the village the equal of any for its sanitary conditions. 

The paving job, which was only let last week, is to be in the Cumming and Foreman subdivision.  It is to cost the respectable sum of $160,000.

Already there are several hundred men on the jobs, with big excavators and other machinery to take the work off the men with broad backs and so-called "weak minds," and to make all the speed possible.

This article appeared in the April 7, 1927 issue of the "LaGrange Citizen" newspaper

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