In force Feb.[February] 12, 1835.
AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of Edgar County to Establish and Re-locate a certain Road therein mentioned.
1Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the county commissioners of Edgar county, are hereby authorized, if in their judgment they may think it right and expedient,
to alter and re-locate so much of the Chicago road2 as lies between George Redmond’s in said county, and the town of Paris, so as to establish the same as now traveled, so as to intersect the Terre Haute road3 at the mouth of Smith Shaw’s lane in the vicinity of Paris.
Approved, Feb. 12, 1835.
1On January 29, 1835, Nelson W. Nunnally in the House of Representatives presented the petition of sundry citizens of Edgar County relative to a certain state road therein named. The House referred the petition
to a select committee. From that select committee, Nunnally then introduced HB 194 in the House on January 30, 1835. The House passed the bill on February 2. The
Senate concurred on February 9. On February 12, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December
1, 1834 (Vandalia, Ill.: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 422, 437-38, 470, 513, 539, 550; Journal of the Senate, of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 1, 1834 (Vandalia, Ill.: J. W. Sawyer, 1835), 404, 415, 469, 503, 508.
2This early road was also known as the “Vincennes Trace,” a well-traveled route from
Vincennes, Indiana, on the busy Wabash River, to Fort Dearborn and Chicago. In 1824,
the Illinois legislature laid out a state road that followed this old Indian trail.
Milo M. Quaife, Chicago’s Highways, Old and New (Chicago: D. F. Keller & Co., 1923), 54, 69; “An Act TITLE State Road from Vincennes
to Chicago,” 29 January 1825, LAWS (1825), PAGE
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at their First Session (Vandalia, IL:
J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 119, GA Session: 9-1