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-- Westchester Tribune, September 28, 1926, page 3 --
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LAKE WATER FOR SUBURB ----- Master Improvements Also Include Double Sewer System, Paving and Street Lights --- Like everything else connected with the master suburban development at Westchester, the municipal improvements for this development have been planned deliberately and thoroughly. No hasty decisions have been made regarding such vital matters as water supply, sewerage, electric lighting, and street paving. These improvements are an important factor in the development of the ideal suburb of Westchester and have been carefully planned by Consoer, Older & Quinlan, consulting engineers during the past few years in similar work in a score of Cook County municipalities notably at Niles Center, Calumet City, Park Ridge, Maywood, Deerfield, Mr. Prospect and Palatine. Plans have been made for the development of a water supply with Lake Michigan water. Westchester Pumping Station Arrangements have been practically completed with the city of Chicago and with the village of Oak Park to obtain adequate supply of lake water. This water will be taken from the Oak Park mains at Harrison street and Harlem avenue at which point a 500,000 gallon concrete storage reservoir and a booster pumping station for Westchester will be built. From this waterworks the water will flow through a twelve foot feeder main to Westchester where it will be distributed throughout the Westchester area through a system of cast iron mains. Special assessment proceedings for this improvement have been commenced and it is anticipated that contracts will be let about November 1 for a complete system of water supply which will insure for all property owners at Westchester an adequate supply of lake water. The sewerage and drainage problem for Westchester has also been studied in detail and a scheme for drainage worked out with the cooperation of the villages of Broadview and Bellwood which adjoin Westchester. The backbone of the drainage plan is the proposed widening, deepening and straightening of Addison creek from its junction with Salt creek at Seventeenth avenue and Twenty-fifth street to Harrison street north of Roosevelt road. Twenty acres of land on both sides of Addison creek will be devoted to the development of a public park. Strong sewers with outlets into Addison creek will also be built. |
Double System of Sewers A system of sanitary sewers in addition to storm sewers will also be constructed. The sanitary sewers will discharge into the sanitary district trunk line sewer on Roosevelt road which is now practically completed. With this double system of sewers lot buyers in Westchester will be protected against the menace of flooded basements and unsatisfactory conditions which are most prevalent where a single system of sewerage is used. The developers of Westchester, upon the recommendation of the engineers, decided upon this double system of sewers so that there would be no trouble with unsatisfactory sewerage conditions in Westchester such as are being experienced so frequently in many parts of Chicago and in many of the suburbs in the neighborhood of Westchester. Special assessment proceedings for both storm and sanitary sewers are now in court and contracts will be let for these improvements in Westchester from Sixteenth street to Harrison street on or about October 4 so that a large part of the work on the sewer systems can be constructed this fall. Paving, Street Lights The master plans for the paving of streets in Westchester and for ornamental street lighting are also being developed by the engineers. It is expected that the first unit in the paving plan, being the paving of Roosevelt road, fifty-six feet wide from Puscheck road to Mannheim road will be constructed early in 1927. This street will e finished off with twelve foot sidewalks and a system of ornamental street lights. Improvements in the Westchester area will be built under an exacting system of supervision and inspection and a technical staff will be maintained at all times to insure proper service to home owners for water supply, sewerage, and all other improvements.
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80,000 FEET OF SIDEWALKS ----- Charles Wiegel’s Largest Contract in 18 Year’s Service with Zelosky Company ----- "We are making splendid progress," says Charles Wiegel, contractor in charge of the construction of the sidewalks in Westchester. It is truly astonishing the tremendous amount of work which has been accomplished. "I wonder," says Mr. Wiegel, "if the public really recognizes just what great activity has been taking place in Westchester. For example, I suppose there are but very few people who realize that at this time I have laid, to serve these people in Westchester, over 80,000 feet of cement sidewalk. "While this is one of the largest, if not the largest contract that I have ever received from the William Zelosky company during the past eighteen years that I have served them, the speed at which we are enabled to operate is much greater than has possible during this period in many even smaller contracts. "The tremendous size of these cement sidewalk contracts, which I am undertaking," continues Mr. Wiegel "naturally runs into figure in dollars and cents an amount that is actually staggering, but the wonderful advantage that is given to the people in Westchester and to the people who will come to Westchester in the way of ease of access and comfort in going to and from the various places in Westchester, is one additional phase of service which must not be overlooked. "All of these thousands of feet of cement sidewalk which are today ready for the people of Westchester lead them to the several stations where they may take the Chicago "L" to any point on the Chicago Rapid Transit Company’s system. "I know of no place where such great progress has been made in so short a space of time." It is interesting to note that Mr. Wiegel is assisted by his son, Frank Wiegel, who is construction superintendent on his various contract. Mr. Frank Wiegel is devoting his personal attention to the construction operations of cement sidewalks in Westchester, and has been connected with his father in a similar capacity for the greater portion of the past eighteen years during which time they have completed contracts for the William Zelosky company. |
Turn the page to Westchester Tribune Sep 28 1926 page 4 -- Zoning
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An advertisement for Charles Wiegel's firm appears on Westchester Tribune Sep 28 1926 page 7 -- More on Utilities
The articles on this page were taken from the Westchester Tribune, Special Edition, September 28, 1926 -- Volume L-No. 43
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