Plan of Evanston
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and intermediate points can connect into Canal Boulevard and thus avoid Evanston.
Thalmann Road: Mr. Willam G. Hibbard and others living in Winnetka have made arrangements to connect the Thalmann Road through to Harrison Street west of Evanston, and they are endeavoring to carry this road through to connect with Lincoln Avenue at Niles Center. It is obviously to the advantage of Evanston that this should be accomplished, 'rather than that the Winnetka motorists reach Chicago by going east on Harrison Street and passing through Evanston.
Milwaukee Avenue: Before the summer of 1917 Milwaukee Avenue will have a first class pavement. Its use will enable motors to go continuously from Chicago to the north limits of Wheeling. Motor trucks are even now running daily from a farm located just south of Wheeling at a point where Milwaukee Avenue road crosses the DesPlaines River, into the Randolph Market in two hours. This is a demonstration of the commercial advantage to the farmer in improving highways. Good roads mean the emancipation of the farmer from his all night ride on the old-fashioned horse drawn market wagon in order to reach Chicago for the early morning business. Milwaukee A venue is destined to become one of the vast highway systems of the world. From Milwaukee Avenue at its intersection with Lawrence Avenue, the Higgins Road leads to Dundee, and this road is to be paved in 1917 to the county line, a distance of 15 miles. Combining Milwaukee Avenue and its connecting roads already paved or to bepaved in 1917 in Cook County, outside the Chicago limits, will make about forty miles of as good roads as there are in the world. Evanston must tap into this system. When Dempster Street is paved to Milwaukee Avenue it will add eight miles more.
The advantages to Evanston of being connected into these good roads are numerous. One advantage would be to bring the people from the smaller towns to the west into Evanston to do their shopping, thus benefitting Evanston merchants.
Evanston Area History
