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ILLINOIS COIL SPRING EXPANDS AGAIN " "* J4' * ^^^ t * v>* j ^ vv-^; VW? &" ~ .c' 9«> . ' mil®lia§ V&H V - s ^ s s • . • . • ABOUT THE ONLY THING IN HOUSES THAT HASii'T CHAMCSE0 RECENTLY If you haven't visited a builder's model homes in a year or more, you owe yourself a visit soon. Builders in this area are putting more useful living space and more worksaving ideas into their houses than ever before. Chances are good that you can find a house just right for your family and your budget. And when you buy, be sure to protect your investment with title insurance from Chicago Title and Trust Company. McHenry County e a Trust Company 101 N. Throop Woodstock, III. A new production facility, located at McHenry* 111., is the latest move by the management of Illinois Coil Spring to provide service to the particular problems of a given industry. In 1949 the company established the Milwaukee spring division to serve the many users of precision coiled springs and wire forms in lower Wisconsin. Subsequently, this division was enlarged and equipped to produce mechanical push-pull control assemblies. In 1962 the company acquired the Holly Spring Co. of Holly, Mich., and established a plant whose primary purpose was to serve the automobile assembly plants in Michigan and the Midwest. Although the parent company has served the farm machinery market for jnost of its 38 years, it was felt that a facility was necessary to accomodate the special problems and requirements of this growing industry. The new McHenry plant, therefore, was laid out and equipped to manufacture the heavier spring requirements of the farm machinery producers with a minimum of handling. The location at McHenry maintains the company's proximity to several major sources of raw material, and also insures an ample supply of the experienced skilled labor required for the manufacture of springs. The new plant will also be able to maintain close liaison to the services available at the parent company in Chicago and its sister division in Milwaukee. The plant is equipped with coiling equipment to cold coil springs up through^inch wire diameter, and is also equipped to provide service in grinding, shot-blasting and peening, pressing, painting, finishing and end-looping and spring testing. An extensive new tool room has been established as the plant will double as an equipment modernization center for the other divisions of Illinois Coil Spring Co. The new plant is located on a 50-acre industrial site owned by the company on the Northwest side of McHenry, 111. Additional facilities are now being planned that will more than double the existing capacity by the year's end. County Board of Realtors Plays Important Role This is a welcome opportunity for me, as President of the McHenry County Board of Realtors, to extol the virtues of the County, as I believe there is no finer place to live and bring up a family than McHenry County. As it is made up of comparatively small towns and communities, we are not yet subject to the severe problems of the large cities with their youth gangs, race riots, slums, air pollution and crowded housing. Increased enrollment in our schools to date has not presented pressing problems, and we have been able to keep up with the increased population, with new school buildings and equipment without excessive taxation. The growth in McHenry County in the past ten years has been orderly and with a few exceptions has not created the problems of a mushrooming area. According to the 1960 census, the population has grown from 50,656 in 1950 to 84,210 in 1960. City and regional planning boards have been developed, which will help control future growth with proper zoning. We in the- McHenry County Board of Realtors feel that we have played an important part in this orderly development. According to our Code of Ethics, made up of 10 Articles, "It is the duty of the Realtor to protect the public against fraud, misrepresentation or unethical practices in the Real Estate field." This we have done. Over the past ten years real estate values have increased, primarily in farm land. It is estimated that this increase in the past two years is as much as 25%.