Articles filed under Transportation
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Chicago mayor assumes state will help CTAOct 22, 2015 11:00 pm - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is defending his decision to roll the dice with a CTA budget that freezes fares and maintains service for the third straight year, but assumes...
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Tollway board pressured to build or not build Route 53 extensionOct 22, 2015 1:00 am - With $5.8 million for planning studies in the Illinois tollway's proposed 2016 budget that could be used to analyze the Route 53 extension, advocates for both sides of t...
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Minority contractors criticize tollway budget proposalOct 22, 2015 1:00 am - Thanks to higher truck tolls, the Illinois tollway will reap extra revenues next year but that didn't mean the 2016 proposed budget didn't receive scrutiny Thursday. Sev...
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Distributing overnight noise from O'Hare a tall orderOct 20, 2015 5:30 am - Officials tasked with crafting a rotation system to evenly distribute noisy overnight O'Hare flights left their first meeting with added reasons why finding consensus wi...
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Route 53 extension opponents hosting informational meeting in Long GroveOct 19, 2015 1:00 am - The extension of Route 53 through Long Grove and a larger portion of Lake County seems imminent, One Long Grove organizer Marcia Marshall says. So the organization dedi...
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Schaumburg brush fire damages tollway cablesOct 19, 2015 1:00 am - A brush fire along an approximately 400-foot section of the eastbound Jane Addams Memorial Tollway east of Meacham Road in Schaumburg caused an estimated $50,000 damage ...
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Fire at Grayslake business on Route 83 under investigationOct 19, 2015 1:00 am - Grayslake Fire Protection District officials are investigating a blaze that erupted Monday at a business on Route 83. Crews were summoned to the fire about 2:30 p.m. at ...
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Elk Grove adding village signs over tollwayOct 18, 2015 1:00 am - Drivers on Interstate 90 will know when they're entering Elk Grove Village - because signs on three Illinois Tollway bridges will tell them so. The village board and tol...
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Alderman vows to keep Pace out of former Salvation Army property in Des PlainesOct 16, 2015 1:00 am - Pace Suburban Bus is making an offer to buy the Salvation Army property in Des Plaines, but the likelihood of bus noise and fumes in neighboring backyards has residents ...
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Union Station renovation plans to be announced todayOct 16, 2015 12:00 am - Amtrak is promising improvements to Union Station that should appeal to both commuters tired of being overcrowded and architecture fans. Officials from the railroad, Met...