An Apology to Mayor Aaron Shepley and the Crystal Lake City Council


Last night I posted an article about the re-routing of Pyott Road and how the city fathers and mothers had not protected the sales tax revenues and the smoothness of the north-south commuting route of those who use Pyott Road.

It was so inaccurate that I have removed it.

Although I had requested a map of the Lake in the Hills Airport re-alignment from the Division of Aeronautics of the Illinois Department of Transportation, I had gotten no reply. So, I relied on my memory of what Lake in the Hills wanted to do with Pyott Road as of when I left Office as state representative.

LITH officials wanted to butt it into Virginia Street Road. Such a re-alignment would not only have disrupted north-south traffic flow, but would have given Crystal Lake’s neighbor to the south another corridor on which to construct stores to drain more sales tax from Crystal Lake.

Today, I managed to obtain a map of the airport runway expansion and the re-location of Pyott Road. As you can see, north-south traffic flow will not be adversely affected.

Score a big one for the Crystal Lake mayor and city council.

There may be a small commercial area that will open up to Lake in the Hills’ advantage, but it won’t anywhere near be as damaging to Crystal Lake’s sales tax revenues as would have been LITH’s original suggestion.

So, I offer my apologies to Mayor Aaron Shepley and the Crystal Lake City Council for assuming they did not protect the interests of Crystal Lake citizens.

I still the suggestion I presented to the CL airport committee of keeping Pyott Road where it now is and putting the runway over a sunken road is a better idea, but what was agreed upon works so much better from Crystal Lake’s perspective than what Lake in the Hills originally proposed, I won’t quibble.

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The satellite shot is from Google. The re-alignment map is from the LITH runway extension plan. Both images can be enlarged by clicking on them.


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