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Month: September 2017
11 Sep 201712 Dec 2017Articles.Video

New Life Begins for Hobson Oak

The Hobson Oak, which once stood on Hobson Road at the entrance of Naperville, is one step closer to living on in a new way. After being cut down

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    Maybe the craftsman of the old sign of children’s legend was Zedrow’s father-in-law, Woodridge resident Charlie Miller, who in lore never quite believed a county promise in the 1950s not to chop down the tree to make path for a four- lane highway.

    “When the ax men came to tear down that tree, he met them with a 12-gauge shotgun. He said, ‘That’s my tree. Nobody takes it down,’ according to the legend as remembered by Kuhn.”

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