Motorists should expect delays through Sunday along Cicero Avenue at the Stevenson Expressway due to railroad crossing repairs, the Illinois Department of Transportation said in a news release. Canadian National Railroad crews will be repairing and replacing an at-grade crossing in the area, and motorists should expect heavy congestion along other routes in the towns [...]
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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 [...]
Among the Chicago transportation initiatives that the IOC highlighted in its Sept. 2 evaluation is an extensive “Olympic lane” highway system that would move everyday local traffic to what the Chicago 2016 committee called 2,392 miles of city roads. The Chicago 2016 Bid Book cites the Dan Ryan reconstruction project as an example of what [...]
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