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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1930
Page
1
Wilmette Village board backs grade separation urging elevation of tracks and streets. The special committee reports for subway or trestle options, cites Aurora visit, and asks attorney to present before the Illinois State Commerce Commission. Chamber of Commerce supports the plan and provides crossing data.
The First Presbyterian church congregation approved a general building program at a Wednesday meeting. The English Gothic stone edifice will include an auditorium a chapel and an educational building on the Greenleaf avenue Ninth street site where the former church was destroyed by fire.
Wilmette village board backs elevated railroad tracks to separate streets from rail lines. Special committee led by W. W. DeBerard urges state Commerce Commission action, attorney Charles H. Jackson to represent the village, and talks with railroads to relocate lines and extend underpasses or trestles across several streets.
Wilmette Chamber of Commerce directors unanimously endorse the proposed municipal water plant to be funded by a bond issue referendum at the November 4 general election. A notice of the action was read to the Village board at Tuesday night’s meeting.
The Village of Kenilworth awarded the West Railroad avenue widening and paving contract to the M Foley Company of Evanston for 75 696 13 the lowest bid among seven bids at a Kenilworth Board of Local Improvements meeting The project will be 56 feet wide and shared by Kenilworth and Cook County with work to begin immediately and completed this fall A special assessment has been levied and confirmed in Cook County Superior Court Other bids from Highways Construction Highland Park Arcole Construction Niles Center Pronger Brothers E A Meyer H Goeritz and W P Carolan were higher and rejected
Postmaster Joseph C Braun of Winnetka was elected president of the Lake County North Shore Postmasters association at a Wilmette meeting. Other officers for the year include E E Ellsworth Libertyville as vice president and Meyers Niles Center as secretary treasurer, with P W Armstrong Glencoe serving as past president.
The First National Bank of Wilmette asks the Village board for a permit to erect an electric sign at 1150 Wilmette Avenue. The sign would project six feet over the sidewalk, exceeding the village rule of a maximum three feet.
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