Suburban water towers are the feature of this week's Landmarks column in the DailySouthtown.
A Calumet City water tower near River Oaks Center is pictured in 2018. The smiling face paint job was added to the tower in 1973 after a young resident proposed the idea in a letter to the Village Board.
Calumet City's Mr. Smiley water tower peers over a shopping area last summer. It's one of two personable water towers in the city that were painted with faces in 1973. Around the time Makanda’s tower acquired its Paul Simon bow tie, the Calumet City tower without a bow tie was painted pink and added a ribbon to promote breast cancer awareness.
Thousands of people trucking past on the Tri-State Tollway every day probably don’t know the village of Worth is named for a general who fought in the Mexican-American War, but they do probably think of the town as friendly even if, like the general, they’ve never visited the area.That’s because the village’s water tower adjacent to the Tollway has advertised Worth as “The Friendly Village” for more than a half century.
He later was appointed to the Board to fill a vacancy, where he was able to put his promotion of Worth friendliness into action, and by 1966, the village’s water tower was spreading the message. Now, the tower has become more identified with the village than friendliness itself, and it figures large in Worth’s municipal logo.
“This is what’s considered a pedestal style, with a wider base,” he said. “It’s not that much bigger than other ones.”Plus, he said, one tower’s position right up next to a bend in the Tollway allows motorists to “see it up close.”There’s no slogan beyond the village’s name on the towers, but they do evoke patriotism with their colors and painted stars. That was intentional, Tryban said.
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