Tooting Our Own Horn in 1917: DeKalb County, Illinois

From the March 22, 2017, MidWeek  "Looking Back."

1917, 100 Years Ago.

"As one travels over beautiful DeKalb County and notes the prosperity everywhere, the thrifty cities and villages with their luxurious homes, fine schools, churches and other public buildings, and sees the rich, highly improved farms, he is assured that here, in this county, the people have advanced far beyond the primitive conditions which confronted the residents of the county when there was a wild country to subdue and the people were poor, and that the people here are now able to occupy themselves with the finer things that go to make life still more worth living."

We've Come A Long Way, Baby.  --Cooter