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"Hotel West. Twenty-seven years of continuous service for Sugar Grove. The following is printed from a Catalogue of Sugar Grove School 1895: 'Wm. West, our able hotel man, the owner and proprietor of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' furnishes table board from…

"Historical: The first settlements were made in this Township in ay, 1884, by Jas. Isbell, Chauncy Isbell, Asa McDole, and James Carmon. P.Y. Bliss, one of the pioneers of this Township, erected a Store where his residence now stands, and for…

“I cannot remember all of the buildings in town but my memory is sufficiently definite so that I can give the reader a fairly good picture of the village as it was at that time. “

“First there was the depot built beside one of the highways of the…

“It was clear, cold, and quiet on the morning of January 5, 1893, when a man of medium height and vigorous physique, bright-eyed and bespectacled, his face adorned with a soup-strainer moustache and a small goatee, jumped lightly from the Chicago and…

“For fifty years Frank H. Hall helped the youth of our land to solve arithmetical problems. For fifty years, he helped the teachers to solve pedagogical problems. For fifty years he helped everyone with who he associated to solve humanitarian…

S/G Fire Dept. Practice, "Hankes Farm", Truck & Firemen at Main Farm

S/G Fire Dept. Practice, "Hankes Farm" Buildings on curve of Road (Galena Blvd.) just East of #47,
(where W-H subdivision is now located)

S/G Fire Dept. Practice, "Hankes Farm" Starting burn at Main Farm

S/G Fire Dept. Practice, "Hankes Farm" Buildings on curve of Road (Galena Blvd.) just East of #47,
(where W-H subdivision is now located)

S/G Fire Dept. Practice, "Hankes Farm" Buildings on curve of Road (Galena Blvd.) just East of #47,
(where W-H subdivision is now located)

S/G Fire Dept. Practice, "Hankes Farm" Buildings on curve of Road (Galena Blvd.) just East of #47,
(where W-H subdivision is now located)

Hazardous Materials Washdown, Route 47 & Cross Street,
June 12, 1999

Hazardous Materials Washdown, Route 47 & Cross Street,
June 12, 1999

Hazardous Materials Washdown, Route 47 & Cross Street,
June 12, 1999

Hazardous Materials Washdown, Route 47 & Cross Street,
June 12, 1999

This was the Caretaker's House for the Bliss Woods Forest Preserve located at 442 Bliss Road, Sugar Grove, Illinois.

"The Chicago, Aurora & DeKalb Railway linked Sugar Grove to Aurora and DeKalb from 1902 to 1928. It started as gasoline driven…