Articles filed under Transportation
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Longtime contractor under scrutiny after auditApr 19, 2012 6:33 pm - Editor’s note: This article appeared in the Daily Herald April 19, 2012. Illinois tollway directors approved more than $165 million in contracts to construction and engi...
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United CEO says Chicago doesn’t need 3rd airportApr 19, 2012 4:51 pm - United Continental Holdings Inc. CEO and Chairman Jeff Smisek says “there’s no demand” for a third airport in the Chicago area. Smisek spoke Thursday to the civic organi...
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Chicago City Council approves speed camerasApr 18, 2012 3:56 pm - The Chicago City Council has approved Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s ordinance to install speed cameras throughout the city and ticket violators up to $100. The council approved t...
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Busse Road repairs delayed due to rainApr 17, 2012 11:00 pm - The northbound lanes of Busse Road will be shut down from Oakton Street to Algonquin Road due to heavy rains that complicated repairs on a collapsed sewer. Crews discove...
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Des Plaines company turns wood into gasApr 17, 2012 11:00 pm - That old cornstalk's worth money. And so is that dead tree stump. Known as biomass, such plant materials can be converted into an alternative fuel source. And eventually...
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Expect Metra delays, no closures during NATO summitApr 17, 2012 5:17 pm - Delays but no major closures on Metra lines during May’s NATO summit was the verdict of the U.S. Secret Service Tuesday. As authorities determine strategies to keep Chic...
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Quinn: Manufacturer will create 100 jobs in IllinoisApr 17, 2012 3:30 pm - More than 100 jobs will be created with French manufacturer Lafarge North America relocating its U.S. headquarters from Virginia to Illinois, Gov. Pat Quinn announced at...
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Second truck rolls over on same off ramp in as many daysApr 17, 2012 12:21 pm - Learn from the mistakes of others. Just a day after a tanker truck rolled off the exit ramp from the westbound Jane Addams Tollway onto Dundee Avenue in Elgin, a dump tr...
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Mount Prospect asks motorists to avoid Busse, Algonquin intersectionApr 17, 2012 9:41 am - Last weekend’s rain has complicated efforts to repair a collapsed sewer main on Busse Road just south of Algonquin Road in Mount Prospect, adding to the traffic woes pla...
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Tanker truck blown over on tollway exit ramp didn’t leakApr 16, 2012 1:51 pm - The westbound exit ramp of the Jane Addams Tollway at Route 25 in Elgin is open again after emergency crews determined that a tanker truck that had tipped over there thi...