A pretty long time ago I saw workers replacing brick crosswalks along the Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing District with asphalt. How does one know where the TIF Districts starts and stops? Just look for the pillars. Two on one end in … Continue reading
Found this license plate holder on Route 14 next to the new CVS site. … Continue reading
A press release from Dr. Anne Majewski, McHenry County Coroner telling of a young male bicyclist being killed Sunday night at dusk on Kishwaukee Valley Road while crossing Route 14. PADS has a shelter on Kishwaukee Valley Road. = = … Continue reading
Taking the shortcut to Woodstock I saw two cement trucks coming to and fro from the road building on Route 14 near McHenry County College. The maximum weight for them is 82,000 pounds, if memory serves me correctly. Somehow I … Continue reading
The median strip at Crystal Point Road was not landscaped when it was installed. That’s the road off Route 14 that runs between McDonalds and Chase Bank. I took a photo of the summer weeds and posted an article. It … Continue reading
No details, but a friend of McHenry County Blog did send this photo of an accident at the intersection of Routes 14 and 176. It occurred about 4 PM Wednesday. … Continue reading
Here’s where I couldn’t get on Route 14 because a crash had just taken place. Later that hour, the accident was reported on WBBM’s traffic report. … Continue reading
A press release from the Crystal Lake Police Department: Four vehicle Traffic Crash on Route 14 at Crystal Lake Avenue On October 28, 2014 at approximately 1:00 PM, emergency crews responded to a multi-vehicle traffic crash at the intersection of … Continue reading
A press release from State Rep. Barb Wheeler: Rep. Wheeler Announces $48.1 Million for U.S. Route 14 Improvement Project in District 64 CRYSTAL LAKE….. Representative Barbara Wheeler (R-Crystal Lake) today announced that $48.1 million in State funding has been earmarked … Continue reading
Work to prepare utilities for the widening of Route 14 between Crystal Lake and Woodstock started in Woodstock and is working its way to Crystal Lake. Now a big pipeline has made its way from Woodstock to Crystal Lake. … Continue reading
The fight between Walgreens and CVS is going head-to-head at the intersection of Route 14 and Virginia Street Road. Currently, Walgreens has two stores in Crystal Lake. One is at the intersection of Routes 31 and 176. The other is … Continue reading
Driving across the Route 14 bridge on the way to d’Andrea’s, my car was sliding when I put on the breaks. Glare ice not treated with salt, it seemed. A squad car was flashing its lights on the northbound exit … Continue reading
It was last April when I noticed that the decorative street lights financed by the Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing. Look at the ones you see in the photo below, taken on a good day in November, 2011. Then compare … Continue reading
A press release from the Crystal Lake Police Department: AGGRAVATED ROBBERY Today, August 7th, 2013, at approximately 9:45am, Crystal Lake Police were dispatched to the business Servitax, located at 459 West Virginia Street (US Route 14), for a reported Aggravated … Continue reading
A press release from the Crystal Lake Police Department: Three Car Crash on Route 14 near Intersection of Route 176 On Tuesday, April 30, 2013, emergency crews from the Crystal Lake Fire Rescue and Crystal Lake Police Departments responded to … Continue reading
A year and a half ago in November of 2011, Crystal Lake city officials gathered in McCormick Park to dedicate the improvements along Virginia Street financed by that street’s Tax Increment Financing District. Among the improvements were low and high … Continue reading
Remember those Vote Yes on the County Executive signs that showed up next to Ersel Schuster and Diane Evertsen signs on Route 14 near Harvard? The homeowner removed them, but two more just showed up. The email read: “A neighbor … Continue reading
A press release from McHenry County Board member Ersel Schuster: “This press release is to give notice that recent actions by those individuals working for the county executive referendum question are intentionally placing their signs next to many GOP candidates’ … Continue reading
A press release from the Crystal Lake Police Department: “On Thursday, August 2nd, 2012 at approximately 4:14 p.m., Crystal Lake Police were dispatched to a report of an Armed Robbery which occurred at the Cody’s Farm Fresh Stand, located on … Continue reading
