Articles filed under Transportation
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Barrington: Crash raises urgency for changes at CN crossingMay 24, 2013 11:42 am - Barrington officials say Thursday’s rush-hour collision between a freight train and a semitrailer truck on Route 14 only strengthens their argument for a grade separatio...
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Gurnee wants deadbeats to pay $1.5 milllion in red-light camera violation finesMay 24, 2013 10:08 am - Gurnee has been stiffed on about $1.5 million in red-light camera violation fines and has turned to a state agency in the hope of getting money from the deadbeats. Villa...
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Fewer making the great escape this Memorial DayMay 23, 2013 5:00 pm - More Americans will be hanging out around home this Memorial Day weekend. AAA predicts that 34.8 million people will hit the road, airports, boat docks, train and bus st...
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Palatine man killed when motorcycle hit fenceMay 23, 2013 10:42 am - A 30-year-old Palatine man died Wednesday night after the motorcycle he was riding skidded into a fence on Wilke Road in Palatine after he apparently failed to negotiate...
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House approves raising interstate speed limit to 70May 22, 2013 2:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois House Wednesday voted to raise interstate and tollway speed limits to 70 mph. Suburban counties would be allowed to opt out of the higher limi...
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Lake Forest Hospital upgrade work begins this summerMay 22, 2013 10:18 am - The first phase of the Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital campus revitalization project will begin this summer with construction of a new entrance road to the campus from...
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Chicago outlines infrastructure projectsMay 21, 2013 5:22 pm - Chicago officials say more than $1.5 billion in water, road and transit projects will be completed coming months, as part of the city’s Building a New Chicago infrastruc...
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Train kills man in Prospect Hts.May 21, 2013 4:20 pm - A 51-year-old Mount Prospect man was killed at 9:44 a.m. Tuesday when he was struck by a Metra train near the Prospect Heights Metra Station near Wolf Road and Euclid Av...
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Two road projects almost off the ground in W. DundeeMay 20, 2013 5:40 pm - Two of West Dundee’s largest thoroughfares — the intersection at Routes 31 and 72 and a nearly three-mile stretch of Randall Road — soon will be under construction for a...
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Red Line work causes no major disruptionsMay 20, 2013 3:25 pm - Transit officials say the first rush hour of Chicago Transit Authority’s Red Line construction project went smoothly. Today is the first weekday of the $425 million proj...