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Looking Back: Jan. 30, 2013

125 YEARS AGO

February 1, 1888
The Chicago & Northwestern has purchased the property located north of Mrs. Nichols’ place on Sacramento Street in Sycamore and will remove their stockyards to that property. The people in the neighborhood are not at all favorable to the idea.

The roads have been badly drifted, large banks of snow making it necessary in some places to take down fences and drive through fields.

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