A concrete segment of former US 41 in Lake County, Indiana

As US 41 crosses the Kankakee River on its northbound journey, it enters Lake County, the northwest-most county in Indiana. Immediately this expressway veers to the left. But with an eagle eye, you can see an older alignment continuing straight through Schneider. Imagery ©2026 Airbus, CNES/Airbus, Maxar Technologies. Map data ©2026 Google. This bypass was built in about 1955 or 1956, and eliminated what were likely a traffic-snarling pair of sharp curves a little more than two miles north of here. Indiana built a lot of concrete highways in the 1920s up to World War II, and this section of US 41 was probably among them. Wherever old concrete highways fell into poor enough repair, the state usually simply paved them over with asphalt. In the mid 1950s, when this segment was bypassed, it was early enough yet that this particular concrete highway was probably still in pretty good shape. I know this because I found some of that concrete south of 241st Avenue. The 1928 state highway map…