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Every once in a while I drive past McHenry County’s Park and Ride lot at the intersection of Route 31 and Virginia Street Road. There are never enough cars to justify its existence. But there was a bottle which might … Continue reading
Category Archives: Virginia Street Road
At the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning Wednesday, the City of Crystal Lake received a $1.4 million grant to construct a second left-turn lane from Virginia Street Road to Virginia Street, otherwise known Route 14. That’s what McHenry County’s member … Continue reading
A press release from the Crystal Lake Police Department: Crystal Lake Police Investigate Fatal Traffic Crash On Sunday, September 24, 2017, at approximately 8:50 pm, Crystal Lake Police and Fire/Rescue responded to the intersection of Virginia Road and Rakow Road … Continue reading
Every time I drive by McHenry County’s only Park and Ride lot at the intersection of Route 31 and Virginia Street Road, I wonder about its justification. Certainly there was government-owned land as the path of Virginia Street Road was … Continue reading
A press release from the Crystal Lake Fire Department: The leak seems to be near Crystal Lake Graphics. … Continue reading
Friday afternoon about 4:40, there were two cars in the Virginia Street Road and Route 31 Park & Ride Lot. … Continue reading
Just before noon on Tuesday, I was driving north on Route 31 out of Algonquin. When I got to Virginia Street Road, I looked left at the new Park & Ride facility built where the road ran thirty years ago. … Continue reading
During the first month of publishing McHenry County Blog in 2005, I wrote the following about what could be done with the gravel pits in Algonquin Township. Since then, of course, Crystal Lake has used higher sales taxes and a … Continue reading
Two years ago the Park and Ride facility at the corner of Virginia Street Road and Route 31 was announced. Virginia Street Road used to enter Route 31 on a diagonal, hooking up with Klasen Road. Then Virginia Street Road … Continue reading
The energy crisis hit us in 1975. It was so intense that my constituents took after me while I filled my tank with gas at the station next to the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce building. One of the obvious … Continue reading
A press release from McHenry County: Illinois Route 31 @ Virginia Road/Klasen Road Widening and Reconstruction Improvement begins April 16, 2012 Algonquin-Lake in the Hill-Cary, IL – The McHenry County Division of Transportation is announcing that roadway construction on Illinois … Continue reading
Do you think Crystal Lake’s Alexander Lumber knows something about the home building industry that the rest of us haven’t picked up on yet? Look at all the lumber stacked along its fence on Virginia Street Road. Is a building … Continue reading
Speaking of the old Crystal Lake Dump, as I do in the post below, I once had a phone conversation with Dick Tracy cartoonist Chester Gould about Gravel Gertie. It was when I was state representative in the late 1970’s. … Continue reading