Articles filed under Transportation
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Metra kicks off construction seasonApr 06, 2016 1:00 am - It's the transit version of summer roadwork: Metra has launched its 2016 construction season with multiple bridge fixes, station upgrades and track repairs on tap. The i...
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Sidewalks, new structure in store for 2 Naperville bridgesApr 06, 2016 1:00 am - Naperville is making plans for improvements to two bridges that carry Washington Street over different segments of the DuPage River. Sidewalks are set to be added this s...
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Emission test reminders resume after vendor offers to do it for freeApr 06, 2016 1:00 am - Drivers won't have any excuses not to get an emissions test with the resumption of mailed reminders, courtesy of a state vendor that will do it for free. The action come...
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Victim of construction accident remembered as man of family, faithApr 06, 2016 1:00 am - The 47-year-old construction worker killed early Tuesday under the Jane Addams Tollway is being remembered as a hardworking man and a strong father to his four children....
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Traffic snarled all day around fatal I-90 construction accidentApr 05, 2016 1:00 am - Rush hour never ended Tuesday for drivers on the eastbound Jane Addams. An early morning construction accident that killed one worker and injured three others caused a m...
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Streamwood red-light cameras go operational May 1Apr 05, 2016 1:00 am - Updated April 6 to clarify that two red light cameras already operate at the intersection. Two new red-light cameras at the intersection of Route 59 and Route 19 in...
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Touhy Ave. reopens 20 hours after I-90 beam kills workerApr 05, 2016 1:00 am - Editor's note: This story has been updated to correctly spell Vicente Santoyo. Federal authorities are investigating why a 40-ton beam fell early Tuesday onto Touhy...
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Limo company involved in fatal I-90 crash shut downApr 05, 2016 1:00 am - The Wisconsin-based limousine company involved in a fatal crash on the Jane Addams Tollway near Elgin last month has been shut down after federal investigators determine...
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Could beam disaster occur again on toll roads?Apr 05, 2016 1:00 am - The Illinois tollway is suspending construction on the I-90 bridge at Touhy Avenue in Des Plaines where a steel beam fatally toppled onto a worker Tuesday until the agen...
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Tollway sensors? No documents? We answer your transportation questionsApr 04, 2016 5:45 am - Jeff Pyrn doesn't miss a trick when driving on the Elgin-O'Hare Expressway (Route 390). “Why are there two toll sensor structures about one mile apart near Roselle Road ...