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Have you waited a long time at a freight train crossing? The feds want to hear about it.

By Marni Pyke
Jan 20, 2020 12:25 PM - A new federal website lets you name, blame and shame the train causing you pain. Local leaders hope the reporting will help land them federal dollars to build grade separations or pressure railroads to offer operational fixes.
Pot is legal in Illinois, but don't pack it for your next airplane ride

By Marni Pyke
Jan 13, 2020 5:30 AM - Recreational marijuana may be legal in Illinois, but driving with it to Wisconsin -- or flying with it -- is not. Here's what you need to know to stay within the law.
Machines that don't give change add $152,000 to Illinois tollway coffers

By Marni Pyke
Jan 6, 2020 5:30 AM - Keeping the change from cash-paying customers is adding up for the Illinois tollway. The agency pocketed about $152,000 extra in 2019 from people without I-PASS accounts feeding coins or bills into automated machines.
Transportation experts' 2020 forecast: More roadwork, more scooters, more transit riders

By Marni Pyke
Dec 30, 2019 5:30 AM - A reckoning for Boeing, more roadwork and e-scooters, and Metra hiring itself to run the three UP routes are among experts' predictions for 2020.
Tollway boss brings in five former colleagues, at $893,000 a year

By Marni Pyke
Dec 9, 2019 5:30 AM - The Illinois tollway is home sweet home for Chicago Housing Authority execs. Tollway Executive Director José Alvarez, former chief operating officer at the CHA, has brought in five former colleagues for salaries totaling $893,000.
Behind the scenes of a collision prevented over O'Hare: The conclusion

By Marni Pyke
Dec 2, 2019 6:13 AM - The conclusion of this two-parter: Two suburban air traffic controllers give a blow-by-blow on the day they prevented a plane crash near O'Hare.
'Hundreds of lives were at stake': How air traffic controllers caught a close call at O'Hare

Nov 25, 2019 5:20 AM - "Stop your climb." How O'Hare air traffic controllers with the right stuff prevented a potential airborne collision in March.
Even this close to Thanksgiving, there are travel deals to be found

By Marni Pyke
Nov 18, 2019 5:30 AM - OMG! Thanksgiving is 10 days away, and you haven't booked a flight, bus, or rental car! Breathe. And read our tips to get there without paying a fortune.
Are Illinois tollway payment machines shortchanging cash-paying drivers?

By Marni Pyke
Nov 11, 2019 5:30 AM - Some of the Illinois tollway's automatic payment machines give change to cash-paying drivers; most don't. So are customers being shortchanged?
'What's wrong with you guys?' Arroyo scolded tollway after it dumped his donor

By Marni Pyke
Nov 4, 2019 12:03 PM - Before his arrest for bribing a senator, satte Rep. Luis Arroyo chastized the tollway for "hanky panky," after directors didn't hire one of his campaign donors.

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