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• dr bunsen honeydew September 17, 2014 at 9:44 am

  West of 290 is Oak Forest now?
• Al September 17, 2014 at 9:59 am

  The 1200 block of Wakefield is one of the most redeveloped blocks in all of Oak Forest – Garden Oaks. Jumping over Ella to the 1100 block is not a surprise – and this one is not the first over there.
• Erica September 17, 2014 at 11:05 am

  @dr bunsen honeydrew – yes, if you look at a section map of oak forest, section 17 extends to a small part on the other side of 290.
• Triton September 17, 2014 at 11:42 am

  The two Glen Park demo’s are for the Pegstar concert hall.
• Rodrigo September 17, 2014 at 12:41 pm

  Will the 290 expansion swallow most or all of the houses on that side of Harland?

  I’ve always been curious about the strange little slivers of property left behind when expansion of a roadway takes a bite out of a neighborhood. Memorial Bend has a few bare plots on the east side of BW8 which I presume are too small or undesirable for anyone to build upon (unless HCTRA bought them outright?). The properties on the north side of Vassar in Boulevard Oaks look to have been chopped at an angle by the rail right-of-way that is now the utility easement along 59. I believe 1 Courtlandt Place was actually built on what was left of the lot after completion of the Spur 527 construction.
• Rafa September 17, 2014 at 2:46 pm

  The Harland demos are homes being swallowed by the expansion of 290. YUMMY!
• GlenW September 17, 2014 at 4:22 pm

  The demo on Michigan and Maryland is well underway.