Storm exposure on a planned lakefront grid
John Alexander Dowie secretly assembled roughly 10 square miles of lakefront land between 1899 and 1901 to found Zion City, laying it out on a grid of numbered streets and biblical-named avenues converging on a central circle. That lakefront position means Zion's older, early-1900s housing sits close enough to Lake Michigan to feel the same storm systems that shape the rest of the Waukegan-area shoreline.
Why the 1901-era grid changes a drying plan
Homes inside Zion's original planned grid were built well before modern drainage standards existed, so a storm or water-intrusion event there can behave differently than in later infill construction further from the lakefront. Water category, elapsed time, and the age of the structure all belong in the same conversation before a restoration scope is set.
Water Damage Restoration project paths in Zion
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