Articles filed under Transportation
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RTA funding Rosemont transit studyApr 08, 2014 1:01 am - The Regional Transportation Authority board has approved a $250,000 study to improve access to Rosemont's CTA Blue Line station and assess the potential for transit-orie...
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State House supports east-west Amtrak routeApr 08, 2014 1:01 am - SPRINGFIELD - State lawmakers are backing the creation of an east-west passenger rail corridor across Illinois. The Illinois House unanimously approved a nonbinding reso...
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Former airport manager receives year's salaryApr 08, 2014 1:00 am - Dennis Rouleau, former manager of Chicago Executive Airport and an employee there for almost a quarter century, will receive a year's salary through his settlement agree...
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Can lawmakers police themselves in reforming transit?Apr 07, 2014 5:30 am - It's one thing to welcome transit reforms in the abstract. It's quite another when the people recommending the changes say that you are part of the problem. That's the ...
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Train too fast for brakes to stop crash at O'Hare: reportApr 07, 2014 1:01 am - A CTA train was speeding at 26 mph just seconds before it hit a bumper at the end of the track at the Blue Line O'Hare Station and bounced onto an escalator March 24, th...
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Schaumburg police campaign yields 72 ticketsApr 06, 2014 1:01 am - From March 13-17, Schaumburg police issued 11 speeding tickets, 11 tickets for cell phone use by driver, 6 for seatbelt violations, 18 for insurance violations and 26 fo...
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St. Charles man dies after apparent heart attack on I-90 near GilbertsApr 04, 2014 11:00 pm - A 66-year-old St. Charles man died Saturday morning after apparently suffering a heart attack that caused him to crash his vehicle into a pickup truck parked in a constr...
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Desperate hunt is on for Flight 370 'black boxes'Apr 04, 2014 1:01 am - PERTH, Australia - Four weeks after the Malaysia Airlines jet vanished, two ships deployed sound locators Friday in the southern Indian Ocean in a desperate attempt to f...
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Route 21/137 work to resume:Apr 04, 2014 1:01 am - Weather permitting, construction activities will resume Monday, April 7, on the Route 21/137 project in Libertyville. There will be intermittent daily lane closures on b...
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Mexico ends bid to revive Mexicana airlineApr 04, 2014 1:01 am - MEXICO CITY - A Mexican judge has ordered an end to efforts to revive moribund Mexicana airlines through bankruptcy proceedings, saying no credible new investor has expr...