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Snow storm barrels through Midwest ¿ barely clipping Michigan ¿ to Mid-Atlantic
CHICAGO (AP) — A late winter storm packing up to 10 inches of snow sent officials in weather-hardened Chicago into action Tuesday to prevent a repeat of scenes from two years ago, when hundreds of people in cars and buses were stranded on the city's...
Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Heart Attack, Baltimore County, Wrigley Field, Salt
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Hinsdale plans to replace Oak Street Bridge
The Village of Hinsdale will hold a public hearing on phase one of its plans to replace the Oak Street bridge, a one-lane steel-and-timber bridge that has been in place for 128 years. The village, representatives of the Illinois Department of...
Tags: Science and Technology, Technology, Hinsdale, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation
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State presents trimmed-down list of I-290 widening options
State transportation officials presented a narrowed list of four proposals that they say will improve travel on the Eisenhower Expressway, all of which include adding a lane to the highway and also extending the CTA Blue Line. The four proposals, all of...Tags: Highway Transportation, Travel, Oak Park, Chicago Transit Authority, Road Transportation
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Prep work for La Grange Road project advances
An Orland Park committee voted Monday to spend $1.13 million to bury ComEd utility cables in three different spots along La Grange Road in preparation for the major road widening project set to begin later this year. Some overhead cables have already...
Tags: Tinley Park, Science and Technology, Orland Park
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In case you were wondering..
Change of Subject..the digital signs over area expressways counting the number of traffic fatalities in the state won't be updated for 2013 until next month, IDOT says, but the running total is kept here and shows we're now at 103, 8 ahead...... -
States driven toward 'zero death' crash goal
It's a long-shot safety campaign known in shorthand as "zero deaths." Cutting the death toll to zero in crashes across all forms of transportation is an aggressive and perhaps unrealistic goal, but Illinois and more than half of the other states are...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Motorvehicle Accidents, Judges
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Widening of I-290, expanding Blue Line to be discussed
Widening the Eisenhower Expressway and extending the CTA Blue Line to Mannheim Road are among the improvements still under consideration in the state transportation department's study of Interstate 290, state officials said. The improvements will be...
Tags: Highway Transportation, Travel, Chicago Transit Authority, Transportation
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Park Ridge moves crosswalk signs
Park Ridge has moved several crosswalk signs from the right side of the road to the middle after being notified by the state they were wrongly placed. An engineer with the Illinois Department of Transportation noticed the signs at Devon & Fairview...
Tags: Science and Technology, Starbucks Corp., Park Ridge
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Mundelein eyes underpass at busy railroad crossing
Cutting across town to beat the train may eventually be a thing of the past at one busy Mundelein intersection after the village board agreed to allocate $350,000 to study a potential grade separation at Route 60/83 and the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern...Tags: Science and Technology, Mundelein, Railway Transportation, Travel, Joliet
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CTA unveils plans for southern Red Line shutdown in May
RedEyeRed Line trains will run on Green Line tracks, and CTA riders will be able to ride for free at the Garfield Green Line station, according to the plans the CTA unveiled Thursday for its spring Red Line south shutdown--one of its biggest reconstruction...Tags: Baltimore Red Line, Metra, Travel, Media Industry, Chicago Transit Authority
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Glen Ellyn planning reconstruction of Crescent Boulevard
By the time Glenbard West High School opens for the 2015-16 school year, Crescent Boulevard may look completely different. Glen Ellyn engineers are planning a $1.9 million reconstruction of the street, something they say is long overdue and will...
Tags: Reconstruction, Glen Ellyn
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