Plank Road Inn, Ogden Ave., Lyons, IL
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adgorn
N 41° 49.317 W 087° 48.456
16T E 432930 N 4630323
Plank Road Inn open for business
Waymark Code: WM2T4M
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 12/17/2007
Views: 58
The name harkens back to the Southwestern Plank Road - literally, a road made of stringers and planks - that helped enable the Chicago of the 1848 to become accessible over the oft-muddy prairie soil that mired wagons. The Southwestern Plank Road was the first of several plank roads radiating from Chicago and initially ran from Chicago to Lyons (here), and eventually out to Naperville.