Lake-Cook Road improvements completed

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle visited Deerfield Thursday morning to mark the end of the county’s 2013 construction season, including a five-month, $9 million project to improve Lake-Cook Road, a major thoroughfare in the northern suburbs.

The county rebuilt or improved 74 lane-miles of roadway this year, she said.

Lake-Cook Road was widened from four to six lanes between Pfingsten and Waukegan roads and dual left turn lanes were added from Waukegan onto Lake-Cook.

The Lake Cook-Waukegan intersection was a well-known choke point for traffic, with approximately 40,000 vehicles a day driving through the intersection. The improvements will aid workers’ access to a corporate office corridor west of Waukegan Road.

The county’s Transportation and Highway Department, which is celebrating its centennial year, completed 20 projects at a cost of about $42 million. Other major projects included:

Ÿ Patching on Schaumburg Road from Barrington Road to Roselle Road. These improvements will supplement the Roselle Road/I-90 tollway interchange project, which is set to begin next year.

Ÿ Resurfacing Arlington Heights Road from Brantwood Avenue to Higgins Road in Elk Grove Village.