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Article: West suburban Carol Stream keeps rolling along
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 10, 1989
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`It's been a very busy year."
That's how Carol Stream's Village Manager Greg Bielawski summed
up the burst of housing construction that catapulted the village to
second place in housing starts among all Chicago suburbs in 1988.
Last year, the suburb issued permits for 1,255 new housing
units, up from 870 a year earlier. The 1988 total included 1,111
single-family homes and 144 town houses, condos and apartments.
The municipality, 35 miles west of the Loop, has come a long way
from it's early farming days.
When founded in 1959, Carol Stream had but a few homes set amid
hundreds of acres of cornfields and pastures. Today, the town has
tree-lined streets and quiet residential ...