transcription / facsimile of newspaper automobile road guide
MOTORDOM - conducted by Sheppard Butler TRIBUNE TOURS -- 1919 -- ROUTE 28 - A
NEW ROUTE TO ELGIN
MOTORISTS bound for Elgin [a
destination or particular
interest this week, because of
the races] may now have the
novel experience of following
a route which is paved nearly Mileage
two-
thirds of the way. This becomes 0.0 Michigan and Jackson 32.6 SCHUMBURG, four
possible through the opening of boulevards: go north in corners with stores; keep
a new stretch of concrete on Michigan and follow the main ahead. 34.8 End of road;
the Higgins road, which carries automobile thoroughfare turn right and take first
the pavement of that thoughfare through Lincoln Park and out left hand road, at school
to a point about twenty-eight Sheridan Road 6.0 Lawrence (54.9) 39.4 End of road;
miles from the loop avenue, turn left. 12.4 turn right and follow direct
Milwaukee avenue; keep ahead, road, which becomes Chicago
presently bearing right with street, into
our tracks, still on Lawrence
avenue.
Leaving the Higgins road at the 13.2 End of road; turn right 43.7 Elgin, Chicago street
end of the pavement, one makes and immediately left onto and Grove avenues. For the
the rest of the run into Elgin Gunnison street. 23.2 races keep ahead across Fox
over country roads, which are Ridgeland (Sixty-fourth) River and railroad, turning
mostly stone or gravel, and avenue; turn right. 26.4 Four immediately right in State
which are fully as good those corners; turn left onto street one block and then
over which the who journey must Higgins road. Keep ahead on left (west) in Highland
be made if one takes the old Higgins road pavement through avenue 43.5 At fork, bear
Elgin road through Addison and ELK GROVE (23.3) 27.9 End of left for grandstand and south
Bloomingdale or follow the permanent pavement: turn left leg, of course, and right (or
alternate route through Itasca and take first right hand road north leg,) parking spaces
and Roselle. The new route is ( 26.6) 29.4 End of road; ------- *Millage 12.4 to 14.4
about five miles longer than turn right and take first left in a detour to avoid a bad
the older ones, but this is hand road (20.7) stretch of Higgins road with
the city limits. When the
city paves its part of
Higgins road one may turn
right in Milwaukee avenue and
immediately bear left onto
Higgins road.
more than offset by the greater
speed possible on the fine
Higgins road concrete.
Incidentally, it leads onto one
of Cook country's most
beautiful forest preserves,
between Elk Grove and
Schaumburg. The itinerary is
logged in detail herewith: and
indicated by the heavy lines on
the map. The lighter lines
indicate the older routes.
These are direct roads and are
easily followed without
detailed directions. Irving
Park boulevard leads directly
into the Itasca-Roselle route,
which is in excellent condition
this summer, for the most part,
and the Addison Bloomingdale
route is merely a continuation
of Lake street. Traffic on the
latter has been so heavy that
it probably is the least
desirable way to go to Elgin,
but it presents no real touring
difficulties.