Using the Illinois historic road map collection.
Continued from October 4th.
1924
The first time I saw Rollins Road on a map. There were still lts of unpaved trails north of Long Lake (which it still goes by, although not in sight of it. I have heard from old-timers in the area that at one time Rollins Road actually ran beside the lake.
And, looking at a map of Round Lake Beach, lake Shore Drive does leave Rollins east of Long Lake and does a beeline straight into the stretch by the lake shore.
Today's Illinois Highway 120 was called Illinois Highway 20 and completely paved from Waukegan to Woodstock.
1925
The town of Rollins shown on the map. Rollins Road shown as dirt. Well, actually, a road is shown. I don't know whether or not if the road is called Rollins Road. Illinois Highway 21 going through Lake Villa and Antioch. It was also called Illinois Highway 31.
More to Come. --RoadDog
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
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