Articles filed under Transportation
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Palatine man killed when motorcycle hit fenceMay 23, 2013 10:42 am - A 30-year-old Palatine man died Wednesday night after the motorcycle he was riding skidded into a fence on Wilke Road in Palatine after he apparently failed to negotiate...
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House approves raising interstate speed limit to 70May 22, 2013 2:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois House Wednesday voted to raise interstate and tollway speed limits to 70 mph. Suburban counties would be allowed to opt out of the higher limi...
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Lake Forest Hospital upgrade work begins this summerMay 22, 2013 10:18 am - The first phase of the Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital campus revitalization project will begin this summer with construction of a new entrance road to the campus from...
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Chicago outlines infrastructure projectsMay 21, 2013 5:22 pm - Chicago officials say more than $1.5 billion in water, road and transit projects will be completed coming months, as part of the city’s Building a New Chicago infrastruc...
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Train kills man in Prospect Hts.May 21, 2013 4:20 pm - A 51-year-old Mount Prospect man was killed at 9:44 a.m. Tuesday when he was struck by a Metra train near the Prospect Heights Metra Station near Wolf Road and Euclid Av...
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Two road projects almost off the ground in W. DundeeMay 20, 2013 5:40 pm - Two of West Dundee’s largest thoroughfares — the intersection at Routes 31 and 72 and a nearly three-mile stretch of Randall Road — soon will be under construction for a...
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Red Line work causes no major disruptionsMay 20, 2013 3:25 pm - Transit officials say the first rush hour of Chicago Transit Authority’s Red Line construction project went smoothly. Today is the first weekday of the $425 million proj...
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Amtrak chugging away at expansion, high-speed railMay 20, 2013 5:30 am - It's a sultry day in Naperville, and the heat bounces off the station platform concrete. Railroad track extends west as far as the eye can see. And what the eye can see ...
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Schaumburg mayor leads by example during Bike to Work WeekMay 17, 2013 5:30 am - Schaumburg Mayor Al Larson led by example Friday morning as he hosted a Bike to Work Week ride to his own workplace at the village's Robert O. Atcher Municipal Center. L...
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New diamond interchange design on tap for I-90May 15, 2013 7:17 pm - Illinois tollway planners hope diverging diamonds will be a motorist’s best friend when innovative engineering tactics are applied to a reworked interchange at Elmhurst ...