One recent Saturday, I was in my study and heard snatches of a conversation between my next-door neighbor and someone I could tell she didn’t know. I didn’t think much of it.

Then my doorbell rang. Oh, I thought to myself, this must have been the person talking to my neighbor. Sure enough, it was a gentleman who said he lived on a nearby street, and he wanted me to sign a petition. Although by petition, I mean a small notebook.

He explained that he lived on Grove Avenue, which is the street my own runs into as one travels toward Route 31 in McHenry. Grove isn’t the longest street in our neighborhood, but it’s one that gets a lot of traffic because it’s one of the few streets in our neighborhood that has a traffic light, aiding in turning left onto Route 31 to head toward Prairie Grove an

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