Pursuing a new image for the village, trustees agreed Tuesday night to move forward with beautification plans for entranceways into the community.
Village trustees, meeting as the Committee of the Whole, directed village planners to design corridors leading into Schaumburg that would use trees, flowers and signs to mark the municipality’s borders.
Trustees will look over those designs this summer before deciding whether to spend the money to enhance the entranceways.
The first entranceway to be beautified may be the intersection of Golf Road and Illinois Highway 53.
According to village landscape planner Kristen Hellman, that strip holds a strong identification with motorists as the Woodfield area.
Hellman proposed planting wildflowers and rows of trees on the Golf Road median and roadside, as well as erecting a welcome sign.
Creating that entranceway and several others throughout town could cost upward of $45,000, but committee members said it would be money well spent because of the positive image about the community it would project.
“I don’t want the image of Schaumburg to be a broken muffler in the median of Golf Road,” said Village President Al Larson.
