Articles filed under Transportation
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Route 45 resurfacing to begin in Vernon HillsJul 26, 2013 5:30 am - Resurfacing Route 45 through Vernon Hills and parts of three other communities is expected to create more headaches than usual for motorists when work begins Monday. Bu...
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Quinn OKs funding for Peotone airport, DePaul arenaJul 25, 2013 4:15 pm - After decades of dispute, the possibility of a third airport in the Chicago area finally materialized Thursday as Gov. Pat Quinn signed a wide-ranging bill that’ll put s...
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Daley: Let governor appoint some of Metra boardJul 25, 2013 10:41 am - Democratic candidate for governor Bill Daley wants to reorganize the Metra board, allowing the Illinois governor to appoint five of 11 members, he said Thursday. Daley a...
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Editorial: Not ideal, but it’s best time to talk about gas taxJul 25, 2013 5:00 am - With only one year left on Illinois’ current construction program, a coalition of business and labor groups is trying to get discussion started about what to do when it ...
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Quinn signs law ending pension, health benefits for future transit boardsJul 23, 2013 6:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — On the heels of the ongoing Metra scandal, Gov. Pat Quinn Tuesday signed legislation that would take state health insurance and pension benefits away from ...
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Metra vacancy has Kane County chairman wondering how to fill itJul 23, 2013 3:38 pm - The resignation of Kane County’s representative to the Metra board of directors last week has the county’s top official wondering what kind of person it would take to re...
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Ex-federal prosecutor won’t conduct Metra probeJul 22, 2013 5:00 pm - A former federal prosecutor has backed out of a job investigating allegations that one of the state’s most powerful politicians and others pressured Metra staff in hirin...
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Resigning Metra board director details 'gotcha game'Jul 22, 2013 5:30 am - For Mike McCoy of Aurora, the back-and-forth this spring over whether to renew former Metra CEO Alex Clifford's contract had turned into a “gotcha game” of accusations a...
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Latest spin on Metra fiasco — no CollinsJul 21, 2013 9:24 pm - It appears former assistant U.S. attorney Patrick Collins won’t be sweeping in to clean up Metra’s mess. Metra board of directors officials said Sunday the agency had ab...
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Kane County leader steps down from MetraJul 19, 2013 11:07 am - As Metra copes with allegations of conflict of interest and patronage, one of the board of directors’ independent voices is leaving. Former Kane County Board Chairman Mi...