Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-02
ROADS NUMEROUS
Network of Electric Lines
Through Northern Part
of the State.
MANY OTHERS ARE PROJECTED
Suburban Service From Rock Island
to Chicago Not Far
Distant.

lnterurban travel between Rock ISL
and and Chicago within the next two
or three years is counted as almost Il
certainty. Roads now in operation
and projected will almost complete
the system necessary to continuous
travel from the Mississippi to Lake
Michigan.
Two lines across the state from
Chicago to the mississippi river, with
Rockford as the central point, are a
part of the vast system proposed for
northern Illinois and southern Wis
consin.
One of these lines is composed of
the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin third
rail system, by way of Wheaton to
Elgin, connecting there with a pro-
posed extension of the Rockford q
Belvidere line, by way of Marengo;
the Rockford d Interurban line to
Rockford, and then to Freeport, with
the proposed line by way of Pearl
| City and Galeua to Dubuque. This
would make almost an air line. The
possibility of this does not seem far
off. The third-raH system is in opera
ton and the connecting line from FL
gin to Belvidere is comparatively
short.
The second route across the state
is from Chicago by way of the third
rail system. through Wheaton to Au-
rora. DeKalb and Rockford line to
Rockford, southwest by the proposed
Oregon, Dixon and Sterling line, part
now under construction, thence west
through Morrison and Clinton, Iowa.
| This route would not end there, but
| there would be south line to Daven-
port, Rock Island, Moline and to Ale
do.
The road would probably connect
with the proposed line through Bur-
lington, Fort Madison and Keokuk,
Iowa, to Quincy, Mount Sterling and
Rushville. Ill.
Lines In Operation
The following roads are now in OPP
GRAFTON in northern Illinois and south
ern Wisconsin,: Rockford & Belvi-
dere; Rockford. Beloit & Janesville;
Aurora d Elgin; Sycamore & DeKalb;
Chicago. Aurora, Elgin & Batavia
third-rail system; Harvard & Lake
Geneva; Chicago & Joliet; Chicago &
Evanston; Evanston g. Waukegan;
Kenosha & Milwaukee; Chicago & La
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Galesburg & Knoxville; Moline, East
Moline d Watertown; Fond du Lac g.
Kaukauna, Wis.
The roads being constructed, or
with material ordered. are: Rockford
& Freeport: Aurora. DeKalb & Rock
ford; Waukegan, Fox Lake & Lake
Geneva; Sterling & Dixon; Waukegan
& kenOsha.
Companies have been incorporated
to build as follows: Rochelle & South
ern line to McNabb; Rockford, Ore
gon & Dixon line; Joliet, Pontiac &
Bloomington; Green Bay, Manitowoc
d Milwaukee; Green Bay. Du Pere &
Manitowoc; Green Bay & Kaul<auna.
The proposed routes for other roads
now being constructed are: Rockford
to Durand and Madison; Byron to Da-
Wis functions; GAINESVILLE to Madison;
Fond du Lac and Green Bay; Beloit
to Lake Geneva and Milwaukee; Wau-
kegan to Elgin; Belvidere to Elgin by
way of Marengo; Freeport to Du-
buque; Sterling to Morrison. Clinton,
Iowa, davenport and Rock Island;
Rock Island to Aledo; Geneseo to
Cambridge, Kewanee and Galesburg;
Burlington. Iowa. to Fort Madison,
Keokuk, Niota, ILL.,. to Quincy, H.,
Quincy. H., to Nashville and Mt.
Sterling: Champaign and Urbana to
Danville.