Articles filed under Tollways
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Tollway hugging trees, wants to plant 58,000Apr 21, 2016 1:00 am - The Illinois tollway plans to turf its ho-hum grassy landscapes with an influx of 58,000 trees. This year about 3,000 trees and 6,000 shrubs will be planted in an effort...
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Where to look out for spring road constructionApr 18, 2016 5:30 am - They're back: Bulldozers. Front-end loaders. Excavators. Cement trucks. Construction season 2016 is upon us, and it's a significant year for many reasons. For long-suff...
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Tollway leader: We want to make the tollway look more like IllinoisApr 17, 2016 7:00 am - More trees, no passenger-car toll hikes, a toll app and open minds on the Route 53 extension. As they close in on a year since joining the Illinois tollway, Chairman Bob...
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Tollway leaders: We're ready for Elgin-O'Hare toll angstApr 14, 2016 1:00 am - There may be angst when the Elgin-O'Hare Expressway/Route 390 converts into a tollway July 5, but Executive Director Greg Bedalov hopes at least the move won't catch dri...
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What's your roadwork safety IQ? Take our testApr 12, 2016 1:00 am - Despite a relatively mild winter, the number of people dying in crashes in Illinois this year rose by 37 percent as of Tuesday, one reason state authorities urged driver...
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Pyke: Are dangerous merges to blame for more I-90 crashes?Apr 11, 2016 5:30 am - With seconds to merge into traffic you can't see, the Arlington Heights Road interchange with westbound I-90 is a heart-stopping, adrenaline-pumping thrill-ride no one w...
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Editorial: During construction, tollway designers, drivers both must do more to assure safetyApr 10, 2016 11:00 pm - Even in the best of conditions, suburban expressways are dangerous places. Any roadways on which vehicles measured by the ton hurtle along at speeds of 50 to 70 mph are ...
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Tollway: Bridge disaster won't hinder I-90 completion this yearApr 06, 2016 1:00 am - Construction delays to one segment of the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) following a fatal beam collapse in Des Plaines should not get in the way of finishing the m...
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Touhy Ave. reopens 20 hours after I-90 beam kills workerApr 05, 2016 1:00 am - Editor's note: This story has been updated to correctly spell Vicente Santoyo. Federal authorities are investigating why a 40-ton beam fell early Tuesday onto Touhy...
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Limo company involved in fatal I-90 crash shut downApr 05, 2016 1:00 am - The Wisconsin-based limousine company involved in a fatal crash on the Jane Addams Tollway near Elgin last month has been shut down after federal investigators determine...