Installing New Street Lights on Main Street in Downers Grove, IL

The first part is a vacuum truck digging holes for the foundations of the street lights. The second part is horizontal drilling under the streets for a 4" steel conduit.

Photos were taken in 2024 between Aug 9 and Sep 11. Additional photos were added later as the headings indicate.

I caught the action on multiple holes, so the photos are not in the sequence that the work would be done.

This is a shot of our Maple tree to show the dead ends caused by the cicadas this year.

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Horizontal Drilling under streets for a 4" conduit

This is the east side of Chicago Avenue

This is on the west side of Prairie Avenue.

They were marking the fiber optic cable because the drilling at Chicago had to stop because they "found" an unmarked fiber optic cable. (There was no damage.)

I went back to the Prairie drilling about every half hour.

A nice advertisement of WD-40

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. I noticed that there were still hoppers painted BN in a BNSF train that I had to wait for.

Oct 7, 2024: installing a plastic conduit between 4636 Main and south of Chicago

Oct 8, 2024: installing a plastic conduit in the 4700 block

10:30am

1:07pm

2:00pm