Smith Road Bridge News Today

Lockport and Homer Glen are set to receive $17.1 million to make vital improvements to local highways, bridges and roads, thanks to the advocacy of State Senator Michael E. Hastings.

ROCK COUNTY Roger Elliott will be the first to tell you that he drove across the historic Smith Road Bridge hundreds of times in his life. “Sometimes on a tractor, sometimes on a bike, sometimes in a car,” he said. Elliott grew up in the 1950s on a farm on Creek Road, about 3 miles west of the unincorporated community of Tiffany in Rock County. In boyhood, he often saw the Smith Road Bridge when visiting the feed mill or general store in Tiffany. The 1910 bridge carried traffic on Smi...