State police to conduct special patrols

Illinois State Police District 15 will conduct Nighttime Enforcement Patrols between Saturday, Oct. 17, and Nov. 1 on the Reagan Memorial Tollway (I-88) in DuPage and Kane counties and the Veterans Memorial Tollway (I-355) in DuPage and Will counties.

The NITE program focuses enforcement efforts on drivers who are impaired and occupants of motor vehicles who are not wearing their seat belts. The patrols will be conducted during nighttime hours when impaired driving crashes causing death or serious injury occur at higher rates.

Troopers will have a zero-tolerance approach to impaired and unrestrained drivers during these patrols, officials said.

The NITE project is funded through IDOT's Division of Traffic Safety.