State awards money to start on education center
A contract has been awarded to begin work on a new $44.8 million center in Chicago to train students for jobs in transportation and logistics.
Gov. Pat Quinn’s office said in a news release Thursday that the state has awarded a $3.2 million contract to Oakley Construction Company of Chicago to prepare the site of the new Transportation, Distribution and Logistics Center at Olive Harvey College.
According to the state, the rest of the work will go out to bid early next year and in mid-2014.
Most of the new center’s costs are being paid for with $30.8 million from the state’s capital construction funds and $13.2 million from the City Colleges of Chicago.
The 130,000 square-foot building will contain classrooms as well as laboratory space.
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