Shoe Factory Road

Illinois · United States · Execution site

Children are described running through the woods near the lake along this Illinois road, from the years when the area was farmland.

Shoe Factory Road runs out of Hoffman Estates in Illinois, and the first thing drivers describe is the woodland along it, particularly around the lake, where children are seen running among the trees.

The explanation offered locally is that there were deaths here when this was farming country, before the suburbs arrived.

Further along the road there is a barn on the right hand side, and the figure attached to it comes with a number: seventeen.

What that number refers to varies with the telling, which is usually a sign that it was attached to the story rather than drawn from anything.

The road runs through forest preserve land and the woods are public. This part of Cook County was farmland within living memory, which is the one part of the account that is not in dispute.

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Where is Shoe Factory Road located?

Shoe Factory Road is in Illinois, United States.