1993 Map of Wadsworth

About this map

The Des Plaines River Forest Preserve anchors this landscape in northern Lake County, where the river winds past a series of established settlements and expanding communities. During the early 1990s, the area around Wadsworth and Gurnee shows the persistent imprint of nineteenth-century agricultural crossroads like Rosecrans and Millburn. The infrastructure of the Tri-State Tollway and the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific railroad corridor cut north-south across the glacial terrain, bridging the gap between rural townships and the growing Waukegan municipal boundary.