The Illinois Department of Transportation said three entrance ramps from Chicago city streets to the Kennedy Expressway have opened to traffic. The ramps were opened before the afternoon rush hour and in time for IDOT to begin fighting the first major snow storm of the season. The entrance ramps from Jackson Boulevard and Adams Street [...]
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IDOT on Wednesday was urging Chicago drivers to avoid downtown expressways for at least 24 hours after after pavement buckled on the westbound Kennedy Expressway at Adams Street. UPDATE: According to the Tribune’s Jon Hilkevitch, the expressway’s pavement buckled near Adams Street when concrete grout flowed through a crack in a repaired section of the [...]
What do the Stevenson Expressway, Interstate 80, Ill. 59 and the Kennedy Expressway have in common? They are among a group of highways that cause Chicago commuters the most pain, according to the “Commuter Pain Index” released on Friday by IBM. In Friday’s Chicago Tribune, Jon Hilkevitch’s story on the study nails the symptoms to [...]
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