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Article: Golf carts may soon putter down city streets
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 8, 1998
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Golf carts could travel city streets under a proposal that passed
the state Senate last month - pushed by lobbyists for Del Webb's Sun
City in Huntley, a retirement community scheduled to open next year
in the far northwest suburb.
The bill, proposed by Sen. Dick Klemm (R-Crystal Lake) and under
consideration by the House, would give Illinois municipalities the
power to allow golf carts on streets.
Officials of Sun City lobbied Klemm to sponsor the bill. Webb
retirement communities in California, Arizona, South Carolina, and
Nevada allow golf carts, but Texas restricted them.
Groundbreaking was Monday for the Huntley development, which
will have 5,000 units and 8,000 residents north of ...