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Plan of Evanston
mouth of the drainage canal in Wilmette. This island scheme is similar to the one advocated to connect Grant Park and Jackson Park, and the one to carry Sheridan Road from a point north of the Lincoln Park Yacht Club to Devon Avenue (the extent of the jurisdiction of the Lincoln Park Commissioners for the moment). It is not looking forward many years to visualize this island extended north from Devon Avenue past Evanston and connecting into Sheridan Road near the mouth of the drainage canal at Wilmette, also recommended by the Chicago plan.
Canal Boulevard: We advocate the construction of a boulevard along the west bank of the Drainage Canal, from Brown Avenue to the south city limits to connect with the continuation of Kedzie Avenue, Chicago, from the point where it now stops at Lincoln A venue. We urge that this boulevard be built on the top of the spoil bank so that it will be an elevated driveway for fast moving vehicles, and that it pass over intersecting streets upon inexpensive viaducts.
Direct access will be had to Wilmette, by an extension of Brown Avenue, into Lincoln Avenue, and then into Central Street. A glance at the map makes it obvious that such a route would enable residents of all towns north of Evanston to reach Chicago in better time than by Sheridan Road, even if Sheridan Road be improved and straightened as suggested above. Access to this route could be had, in Chicago, by way of Diversey, Lawrence, Bryn Mawr, Peterson, Devon and Touhy Avenues, and from Evanston by Oakton and Dempster Streets.
By opening this western route through Evanston, access is made easy, also, to the Thalmann Road north into Wilmette and Winnetka, as well as, via the Harm's Timber Road, and Lake Avenue Wilmette, to the excellent outer highways running north via Wheeling and via Deerfield.
Ridge Avenue: Ridge Avenue gives access to Chicago by way of Clark Street. On the north it leads into Wilmette by Sheridan Road and by Railroad Avenue. There is a city
