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Until the 1950s, Carpentersville consisted of a street grid along the Fox River centered around Main Street, which was the only highway bridge across the Fox River between Algonquin and Dundee.

In the mid-1950s, Leonard W. Besinger began a subdivision named Meadowdale north of Carpentersville.

By 1956 Besinger had accumulated more than along Illinois Route 25 between Bolz Rd and Illinois Route 68.

Other area residents thwarted his attempts to incorporate Meadowdale as an independent town.

So Besinger had Carpentersville annex the property.

The Meadowdale Shopping Center, which was anchored by Wieboldt's, Carson Pirie Scott, Cook's and W. T.

Grant ; it also featured an indoor ice skating rink, overshadowed the commercial district along the River.

A large section of the shopping mall on the north side was torn down in the 1990s and a new post office building was built.