Landmarks: Story of Roosevelt’s globe highlights revived Dixie Highway tour

For a little while, there was a big secret in Chicago Heights. Washington bigwigs were visiting. Mysterious shipments of valuable resources would arrive. Something important was happening on the city’s East Side at a time when most of the world’s attention was focused on armed conflict that had engulfed the globe. The secret turned out to be a gift for the president being put together in a workshop at 12th Street and McKinley Avenue, where the Weber Costello Company long had manufactured school supplies such as blackboards, erasers, maps and...