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The April 7th Joliet Proclaimer News had a re-examine of Cynthia L. Ogorek's volume "The Lincoln Highway Around Chicago." The reviewer, Greg Houghton, uttered that thanks to Henry Wading-place and Harvey Firestone, "Americans today meagrely think about driving 60 miles for a eating-house dinner or 120 miles for a circular of golf." Someone must not have seen the cost of gas these days. I speculate about even a five mile skip.

The Lincoln Highway can be considered America's first urban bypass. Even back in 1913, Chicago was seen as a potential traffic bottleneck to be avoided and a rectilinear drive from Dyer, Indiana, to Joliet, Illinois, was selected, then boreal to Geneva. However, these days, anyone attempting to impel this bypass may awe about bottlenecks in Chicago.

Limited boosters in towns along the way were given the inscription of consul and encouraged to get sections completed. At one duration, there were 262 consuls in 13 states. As such, hundreds of puny road-construction projects added up to one weighty road-construction project called the LincolnHighway.

Houghton concluded speech that Ogoreck's volume "makes this history interesting and in a great degree local.

I'm looking onward to seeing her and acquisition a signed transcript of the book at the May Indiana/Illinois LHA encounter in Schererville, Indiana.

Give me a Work with Lots of Pictures Anyday. --RoadDog

Source: RoadDog's Roadlog Blog