Articles filed under Transportation
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Lawmakers approve $1.5 billion transit funding package with 45 cent toll increaseOct 31, 2025 9:54 am - Pritzker gives thumb’s up to plan that would avert transit implosion, offer expanded services, and create new oversight board.
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Cook County to hold hearing on improving rush-hour congestion on Quentin Road in PalatineOct 30, 2025 4:42 pm - After asking for nearly 30 years, residents of two subdivisions along a milelong stretch of Quentin Road in Palatine that narrows to two lanes are learning more about Cook County’s preferred solution to traffic congestion that keeps them trapped at rush hour.
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When passenger flight arrived at O’Hare: City marks 70 years of commercial serviceOct 30, 2025 11:24 am - The first commercial flight from O’Hare International Airport took to the skies Oct. 29, 1955.
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House Dems eye taxes on entertainment, billionaires’ investments to fund transitOct 29, 2025 11:36 am - Two key negotiators on public transit reform in the Illinois House filed a bill Tuesday to raise up to $2 billion by taxing entertainment and the unrealized investment gains of billionaires.
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House Dems eye taxes on entertainment, billionaires’ investments to fund transitOct 28, 2025 10:08 pm - Two key negotiators on public transit reform in the Illinois House filed a bill Tuesday to raise up to $2 billion for public transit by taxing entertainment and the unrealized investment gains of billionaires.
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City offers maps, guides to prepare neurodivergent travelers for sensory overload at airportsOct 26, 2025 8:45 pm - O’Hare can be an overwhelming experience for some passengers with conditions like autism — but it doesn’t have to be that way.
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‘In the rearview mirror’: Drivers can take back the Kennedy after three years of construction angstOct 24, 2025 5:32 pm - Kennedy reopens. IDOT celebrates completing project stretching from Ohio Street to Edens Expressway that affected 275,000 motorists a day.
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Ramp at I-90, Arlington Heights Road closing FridayOct 23, 2025 11:25 am - The ramp connecting southbound Arlington Heights Road to westbound I-90 in Arlington Heights is scheduled to close beginning at 6 p.m. Friday and continuing into November, Illinois tollway officials announced Thursday.
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Police investigating shots fired on I-355 near LemontOct 22, 2025 2:26 pm - Illinois State Police are investigating a possible shooting on I-355 near 127th Street near Lemont.
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Despite earlier assurances, Cinergy Entertainment rejects mural planned for Wheeling cinemaOct 21, 2025 12:54 pm - Much-anticipated plans for a public mural near Wheeling’s Metra train station have been scrapped by the company that was to partner with the village on the project.