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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: Traffic, Travel, Railway Transportation, Transportation, Mundelein
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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: Chicago Transit Authority, Travel, Media Industry, Baltimore Red Line, Transportation
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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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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, Air and Space Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents, Accidental Death
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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, Chicago Transit Authority, Travel, Transportation
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Des Plaines cops face suspensions in DUI pay investigation, city says
Tribune reporterSeveral 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...Tags: Des Plaines
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After nine years, improvements coming to Green Bay Road and Winnetka Avenue intersection
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...
Tags: Traffic, Transportation Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents, Winnetka (Cook, Illinois), Science and Technology
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Sandi Jackson's successor sworn in as alderman
Clout StreetFormer 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...Tags: Roberto Maldonado, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Local Government, Cook County Government, Rahm Emanuel
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Emanuel names former IDOT manager to succeed Sandi Jackson
Clout StreetMayor 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...Tags: Jesse Jackson, Jr., Travel, Metropolitan Planning Council, Transportation, Rahm Emanuel
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Willow Road expansion to disrupt Northfield traffic
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...Tags: Highway Transportation, Travel, Transportation, Road Transportation, Dundee
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