From the August 17, 2016, MidWeek "Looking Back."
This has to do with roads and the coming of World War II.
1941, 75 Years Ago.
"Crews of DeKalb city workmen have been engaged on the Garden Street project during the past few weeks and are rapidly nearing the end of the project on this one street. It is expected that the work will be completed by the end of the week.
"The project was originally opened with WPA help, but when the federal government withdrew all help of this nature the city carried on the work with the aid of day labor. Splendid progress has been reported and it is believed the gutter and curbing details will be completed within a short time, and should make possible the blacktopping operations that are planned."
Of course, the WPA was ramping down at this time as the workmen were needed in the military as war impended.
--Cooter
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Thursday, February 23, 2017
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Illinois' Camp Logan-- Part 3: Echelon and Aiken
Echelon Target System and Aiken targets were used. An Echelon Target System was a rifle range with various distances to the targets. Soldiers would qualify at the 200 yard one and proceed every 100 yards to as far as he could successfully hit the Aiken targets.
Use of Camp Logan by the Illinois National Guard was heavy from 1902 on.
There was also live fire by artillery and Gatlin guns. During World War I, the nearby Great Lakes Naval Training Station took over Camp Logan for overflow. The WPA made improvements from 1934-1937.
Great Lakes used the base again during World War II.
The caretakers cottage and pump house from the 1890s are still there. there is also a flagpole, 2 garages, headquarters, one barracks as well as one tool and two store rooms remaining from the 1910s.
--Cooter
Use of Camp Logan by the Illinois National Guard was heavy from 1902 on.
There was also live fire by artillery and Gatlin guns. During World War I, the nearby Great Lakes Naval Training Station took over Camp Logan for overflow. The WPA made improvements from 1934-1937.
Great Lakes used the base again during World War II.
The caretakers cottage and pump house from the 1890s are still there. there is also a flagpole, 2 garages, headquarters, one barracks as well as one tool and two store rooms remaining from the 1910s.
--Cooter
Saturday, January 2, 2016
WPA to Work on Sycamore Sidewalks, New Nash Dealer in DeKalb and Chicken Thieves in 1940
From the Dec. 29, 2015, MidWeek "Looking Back."
1940, 75 years ago.
"Property owners of Sycamore who would like to have new sidewalks laid at their houses or who would like any trees or stumps removed from parkways may enter their application to have this work including in the spring program of the WPA in Sycamore by notifying any city official on or before January 15."
"Arthur Taylor, veteran garage businessman in Sycamore,. opened a Nash sales station in DeKalb on Monday morning at 151 North Fourth Street."
"Two farms a few miles northeast of Sycamore were the scenes of bold chicken raids late last night or early this morning as a band of chicken thieves took nearly 300 most of them White Rocks from the Nels Nelson and Lee Nelson farms."
--Feathers Everywhere. --Cooter
1940, 75 years ago.
"Property owners of Sycamore who would like to have new sidewalks laid at their houses or who would like any trees or stumps removed from parkways may enter their application to have this work including in the spring program of the WPA in Sycamore by notifying any city official on or before January 15."
"Arthur Taylor, veteran garage businessman in Sycamore,. opened a Nash sales station in DeKalb on Monday morning at 151 North Fourth Street."
"Two farms a few miles northeast of Sycamore were the scenes of bold chicken raids late last night or early this morning as a band of chicken thieves took nearly 300 most of them White Rocks from the Nels Nelson and Lee Nelson farms."
--Feathers Everywhere. --Cooter
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Looking Back at DeKalb County History-- Part 1: The WPA and a Bridge
From the Oct. 20, 2015, MidWeek (DeKalb County, Illinois) "Looking Back.
OCTOBER 1940, 75 YEARS AGO
Work on the walk at the court house (in Sycamore) will begin on Thursday with about twenty men working on relaying the cement for the sidewalks as a WPA project. A firmer foundation for the court house steps also will be provided.
The building of a temporary bridge north of the present bridge on Route 64 one mile west of Sycamore was started Monday. Workmen cleared weeds and shrubs along the bed of the branch of the Kishwaukee River. After clearing, wooden pilings will be embedded in the river and the temporary bridge constructed.
--Cooter
OCTOBER 1940, 75 YEARS AGO
Work on the walk at the court house (in Sycamore) will begin on Thursday with about twenty men working on relaying the cement for the sidewalks as a WPA project. A firmer foundation for the court house steps also will be provided.
The building of a temporary bridge north of the present bridge on Route 64 one mile west of Sycamore was started Monday. Workmen cleared weeds and shrubs along the bed of the branch of the Kishwaukee River. After clearing, wooden pilings will be embedded in the river and the temporary bridge constructed.
--Cooter
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