City hires engineers for three major road projects
The Jacksonville city council authorized Casler and Stapleton to prepare plans for three big improvements. Two projects will use federal and state aid, including widening Plainfield and Black roads from Raynor Avenue. The estimated total costs are about 11 million dollars for road modernization and 1.5 million for a northwest storm sewer project.
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Casler and Stapleton
Jacksonville
Ill
Plainfield and
Black Roads
Raynor Avenue
Plainfield Road
Raynor
Larkin Road
Black Road
Caster and
Stapleton
Altho
Dward J. Daniel
C. J. Casler
Daniel
Paul Friedrich
Friedrich
Atty
Arthur T. Lennon
Joliet Unveils First Joliet Regional Port Authority Board
Five of seven members gathered to organize a new Joliet regional port authority created by a city survey completed in 1956. Members named include Paul Friedrich, Joliet councilman, and manufacturer Folger Adam as temporary secretary. Bevan, DeSandre, and Greenberg named by governor and mayor. The authority will regulate terminals and traffic and link Joliet to broader waterway development.
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Port Authority Board
Joliet
Regional Port Authority Board
William E. Fay
N. Reed Street
Fay
Fred Scheel
New Lenox
Paul Friedrich
William F. Bevan
Folger Adam
Allison E. Greenberg
Marion M. DeSandre
Chicago
Joliet. Com
Louis F. Bottino
Francis Loughran
Stratton
Marion DeSandre
Adam
Hennessy
Fay, Friedrich
DuPage
Lockport
Troy
Channahon
Port Authority
Reed Street
Friedrich
Bevan
Scheel
Paul Brumund
Light two seat plane crashes on Naperville farm
Two Cook county men escaped death when their light two seater Cessna crashed on a Naperville area farm. Pilot Jerry Machacek 56 of Riverside suffered head lacerations and shock. passenger Ardan M Santschi 51 of Berwyn had a skull fracture and head wounds. The plane overturned several times after clipping a power line during an emergency landing attempt three miles east of Naperville near U S 66.
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Cook County
Naperville
Jerry Machacek
Riverside
Ardan M. Santschi
Berwyn
Robert Georgantas
Illinois State Police
Machacek
Georgantas
U. S. 66
City rejects West Jefferson street lighting plan
City Manager Chester B. Lewis announced the state rejected the plan to light West Jefferson street with central street lamps. The $80,000 project would be reworked with staggered lights on parkways and conduits would raise the total to about $100,000, reducing annual cash outlay to $35,000 via motor fuel tax funds and phases. Councilman Paul Friedrich proposed appealing for state aid at key points where Westont place intersects Midland Larkin and Wilcow.
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Chester B. Lewis
West
Jefferson Street
Lewis
Paul Friedrich
Westont Lace
Midland
Larkin
Wilcow
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Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery
Troy Road
Ross Sullivan
Clarence Ploch
Ottawa Street Methodist Church
William B. Hill
Will County Ministers Association
First Baptist Church
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