I've worked in Naperville since '99 and it looks like
Ogden Avenue has been four lanes for quite a while
before then, through to the city limit which is roughly
Route 59 and well into Aurora and on to Oswego.
> Another question. When was it widened to 4 lanes? I recall Ogden Ave. went
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> 4 to 2 lanes right at the West city limits of Naperville. Just a few hundred
> feet into
> the two lanes you could look to your left and see the CB&Q DuPage River bridge
> with no span on the North side of the piers.
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> It was downhill to the highway bridge over the DuPage River and you could
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> hit 100 mph just as you went across it. Coming around the curve and ducking
> under
> the "Q" main seemed to be a tight fit with just two lanes. You could also go
> straight
> there and head down North Aurora road without hardly slowing down but the dust
> was really bad. Just after the EJ&E underpass there was a road to the right
> that
> led to the Interchange. Always thought that would be a sort of oddball photo
> spot
> but never lucked out and was there at the right time.
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> Enough rambling,
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> The VLBG
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