Letters to the Editor
Letter: Residents Oppose Gas Station, Favor Preservation
Group believes pioneer home should become a visitors center, not a convenience store.
The owners of the lots located where Joliet Road (US 30) and Division Street (IL 59) meet will come before the Plainfield Planning Commission on Tuesday, June 5 to ask for approval to tear down the historic 1845 house and build a gas station with a convenience store on 3 parcels totaling less than an acre. The previous gas station and convenience store that once sat there was removed 2010 during IDOT's road widening project. The Plainfield Historic Preservation Commission has tried unsuccessfully to save the 1845 pioneer home, known as the Corbin-Bingham-Worst. The house was identified in the Village’s 2005 Historic Urban survey as a significant historic structure and the Commission envisioned restoring the structure creating a vistitors …
Ed Arter
12:26 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012
well stated Joel--you hit the nail on the head more ›