Articles filed under Transportation
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Are bylaw changes weakening the tollway board, and still keeping them ethical?Dec 27, 2018 4:00 am - New Illinois tollway bylaws no longer include a process for the board to overturn a veto by the chairman. The bylaws also omitted language that previously included “pot...
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Ryan family dismayed by idea to rename expressway for ObamaDec 25, 2018 12:00 am - For decades, two families worked hand-in-hand as the top political powerhouses in Chicago. The Daley name is still synonymous with Chicago politics. And while the name D...
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InTransit: O'Hare's interfaith chapel a place of solace for anyoneDec 23, 2018 12:00 am - A stone's throw from O'Hare's Interfaith Airport Chapel, workers lug bags off a jet. Nearby, a man waves orange batons guiding another plane to a gate. Inside, pilot Joh...
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Therapy dogs, the gift of I-PASS, and other holiday travel tipsDec 21, 2018 12:00 am - United Airlines flight attendant Allison Herriot typically focuses on passengers' anxieties, but on a busy Friday she grabbed a golden opportunity to relieve her own str...
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Sound insulation program taking off around Chicago Executive AirportDec 21, 2018 12:00 am - Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling is poised to hire a company to run a trial sound insulation program to help residents affected by jets flying in and out of the fac...
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Editorial: Pritzker should set goal of making tollway more patronage-proofDec 20, 2018 12:00 am - Gov.-elect Pritzker should set goal of making agency more patronage-proof
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Union says tollway workers risk lives for too-little payDec 20, 2018 12:00 am - Illinois tollway laborers who work in the front lines of traffic picketed outside headquarters and demanded "equal pay" at a meeting Thursday. Teamsters Local 700's four...
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All lanes of Old McHenry Road in Long Grove reopenDec 18, 2018 12:00 am - All lanes of Old McHenry Road in Long Grove are now open, though other improvement work along the thoroughfare will remain ongoing through the winter, Lake County transp...
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Rolling Meadows woman killed in I-290 crashDec 17, 2018 12:00 am - A 23-year-old Rolling Meadows woman was struck and killed late Sunday in a two-vehicle crash on eastbound I-290 near Thorndale Avenue near Itasca. State police said Fati...
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Taylor Avenue tunnel project in Glen Ellyn progressing on scheduleDec 12, 2018 4:35 am - The construction of a new Taylor Avenue tunnel is making major progress in a Glen Ellyn neighborhood east of downtown. When the project is complete, there will be two p...