It looks like one of those old time gas street lights, doesn’t it?

But it’s not.

It’s styled to look that wa, but it was just installed in front of the Crystal Lake Park District administrative building on East Crystal Lake Avenue with your Tax Increment Financing dollars.

I won’t go off on a rant about how TIFs increase all of our taxes in McHenry County when any municipality imposes one.

Today.

Let’s just enjoy what this beautification project looks like when the afternoon late winter sun was hitting just right.

I thought the city was going to bury all of the wires, but there still seem to be some in the background.