An important road in my neck of the woods, northern Lake County, Illinois, is called Rollins Road. It originally ran from US-45 on the east out to Round Lake and then was extended to Fox Lake. Now, it goes from US-45 to Grand Avenue, Illinois Highway 132. This was built to prevent the bottleneck at Il-83 and Il-132.
It was a two lane road back when we moved to Round Lake Beach in 1975 and had just one stop light at Cedar Lake Road. Now, it is four lanes with lots and lots of stoplights. Most of it from Il-83 to Fairfield Road is 40 mph with the exception of 30 mph through Round Lake Heights, which essentially is a speed trap, so definitely watch your speed through there.
Rollins Road is a major commercial district with a lot of the usual suspects along it: K-Mart, McDonald's, KFC, Taco Bell, Buffalo Wild Wings, Chili and a host of other standard homogenized places.
I've often wondered where the name came from and figured it must be named after a person. I even contacted the Lake County department of Transportation and they didn't know where the name came from.
I believe I have found out why.
Rollins, Oh Rollins. What's in a Rollins. --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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