The Daily Herald from Chicago, Illinois • Page 24

Step Toward Jumble? Dan Ryan Expressway Will Open Saturday by MOOT J. SULLIVAN United Frets International The Dan Ryan Expressway, blued as the world's widest road, opens for tra'fic Saturday, moving Chicago's Loop a little closer (6 points south. The new road, which in places has 14 lanes of traffic, also In spirit moves Chicago a little close to the Los Angeles jumble of high-speed thoroughfares. Just one wrong turn could put a motorist miles from his destination and perhaps high tailing it to Milwaukee instead of the Loop. Completion of cut expressway, which knifes through the city's sprawling South Side, brings the Chicago total mileage of such roads to 200 and their cost past $1.2 billion.

War II will be long felt. Thousands of families have been uprooted by the road builders and millions of dollars of property have been erased from the tax rolls. Under construction or pegged for construction are 74 additional miles of expressway to cost nearly $240 million with a completion target date of 1967, part of a goal to have 524 miles of expressways honeycombing northeastern Illinois within 20 years at a total cost of $2.7 billion. Engineers have as the next the road building since World item on the agenda the South- MORE EXPRESSWAYS are on the drawing board, but Mayor Richard .1. Daley said recently he isn't sure it's a good idea to keep cutting up the city for such projects.

The effect of west Expressway, which will link the Chicago metropolitan area with the state's midsection. The Southwest Expressway, a $141 million project, will cut through the Ryan Expressway just south of the Loop and move to a linkup with U. S. 66 where the Tri-State Tollway intersects. IT WILL RUN past Midway Airport, once the world's busiest, in the southwest corner of the city, and cross the Tri-State Tollway, which links Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana in a gigantic bypass of Chicago, just north of Willow Springs.

Beyond Willow Springs, it is U. S. 66 with Joliet, Dwight, Pontiac, Bloomington and the a capital at Springfield along the way. St. Louis lies another 100 miles beyond.

Highway officials in Springfield project that the Dan Ryan Expressway, named after the late president of the Cook County Board, will reach Kanfcakee about 1987. ALSO IN SOUTHERN Cook. County is Intentate-80, which figuratively will sHce Illinois into and portions as it crosses the state from Hammond, to Davenport, Iowa, in the Quad-City area. It is now finished west from U. S.

66 west of Joliet to beyond the La Salle-Peru area. Road building is under way in the Rock Island and Moline areas. The 1-80 section east of 66 is slated for completion by the end of 1964, depending upon availability of funds. A linkup also is planned near Hazel Crest with the Tri-Stae Tollway for travel to Indiana. (A14 Progress Report on Addition to School A progress report on the 12- room addition being added to Euclid School was given by the Architect and contractor during the Dec.

4 meeting of the Board of Education of School District 26. Glazing of the rooms Is presently being completed, are scheduled for delivery by Dec. IS and'the heating unit ventilators are due to arrive Dec. 18. The addition is scheduled for completion in February.

THE BOARD also beard report on improvements being made at Feehanville school. A new heating unit and incinerator will be installed in the east wing of the building. A parking area and playground was discussed. An automatic program clock is being installed at the present time. The board will discuss- the purchase of furnishings for the Euclid School addition during the Dec.

18 meeting. Regular board meetings are held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 8 p.m. All meetings are open to the public according to Superintendent Herman C. Meiners. (ACM Big Business A total of 2,443,888 civilians were on the payroll, of the IT.

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