Illinois Department of Transportation

Homer Glen is paying more than $100,000 for a study to come up with a framework for development along the village's highest traffic corridor on 159th Street. The study started in December and is expected to take nine months to complete, Homer Glen...

Commuters concerned about safety or congestion at the intersection of 47th Street and East Avenue in La Grange are invited to an open house to discuss possible improvements in that area. The Illinois Department of Transportation is hosting an open house...

Trustees have approved Homer Glen's policy for sales tax sharing incentives used to attract businesses. The village has used sales tax sharing incentives in the past, Mayor Jim Daley said at a recent Village Board meeting. "What we're approving...

Delayed road construction a mile north of downtown Libertyville has put the breaks on more than commuters' driving, with local business owners say they're also suffering due to the stretch of traffic cones and dug-up pavement near the intersection of...

Several Des Plaines police officers face possible suspensions stemming from a city investigation of alleged misreporting of DUI arrests to obtain overtime pay, officials said. The overtime pay reportedly came from a federally funded grant designed to...

Illinois Department of Transportation had to approve traffic light that Winnetka officials have wanted for years Winnetka is finally improving the intersection of Green Bay Road and Winnetka Avenue in a project that will have taken more than nine...

Former Illinois Department of Transportation official Natashia Holmes is the new 7th Ward alderman after the City Council today approved Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s appointment of her to the South Side post. Holmes, 37, takes the seat vacated by former...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced that he has appointed a former Illinois Department of Transportation special projects manager to replace Sandi Jackson as 7th Ward alderman. Natashia Holmes left IDOT in 2012 and recently worked as a project manager...

Motorists through Northfield will likely be met with disruptions, but not detours, as the Willow Road construction project begins. Some 40 years in the making, the long-debated concept of widening the two-lane Willow Road to four lanes with a center...

It would be tough to say who — business owners or motorists — are more relieved that two major multi-million dollar road construction projects have wrapped up in McHenry County. Julie Joyce, third generation owner of The Barn Nursery and...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to install 100 miles of protected bicycle lanes in Chicago by 2015 is running into a speed bump thrown down by the state. Streets where the Chicago Department of Transportation has installed or plans to build protected bike...

A suburban Volkswagen dealership has what could be a smashing deal for distracted drivers — and it's coming to an end soon. Autobarn Volkswagen of Countryside is running a billboard on the Stevenson Expressway that may tempt drivers to take...