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Toll roads have been around as long as the nation.  Today those tolls are often paid on multi-lane turnpikes, often with just the flash of an automated reader.  Perhaps that’s what makes the toll paid in Pittsfield, Illinois so unusual.  The payment was just a half-cent, and it was to cross someone’s yard AND it was levied on a future president of the United States…..