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Article: A `tree of God' rescued in Elgin
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 9, 1988
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A tree lives in Elgin.
It's a beautiful, 60-foot, 100-year-old Catalpa, with thousands
of heart-shaped leaves and clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers. This
majestic example of nature's handiwork sits in front of Phyllis
Krueger's home, and it's her pride and joy.
Hard to believe it was almost cut down last month.
Krueger, 62, said it took nothing short of a "miracle" to save
her beloved Catalpa from death by buzz saw.
On a Thursday in early August, she came home at 432 Summit and
found to her horror that a crew was about to cut down the tree. She
had received assurances from the Illinois Transportation Department
that the widening of Illinois 58 would not affect her tree.
"They ...