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Snow storm barrels through Midwest ¿ barely clipping Michigan ¿ to Mid-Atlantic
CHICAGO (AP) — A late winter storm packing up to 10 inches of snow sent officials in weather-hardened Chicago into action Tuesday to prevent a repeat of scenes from two years ago, when hundreds of people in cars and buses were stranded on the city's...
Tags: National Weather Service, O'Hare International Airport, Wrigley Field, Washington, DC, Heart Attack
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Hinsdale plans to replace Oak Street Bridge
The Village of Hinsdale will hold a public hearing on phase one of its plans to replace the Oak Street bridge, a one-lane steel-and-timber bridge that has been in place for 128 years. The village, representatives of the Illinois Department of...
Tags: Technology, Science and Technology, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, Hinsdale
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State presents trimmed-down list of I-290 widening options
State transportation officials presented a narrowed list of four proposals that they say will improve travel on the Eisenhower Expressway, all of which include adding a lane to the highway and also extending the CTA Blue Line. The four proposals, all of...Tags: Road Transportation, Chicago Transit Authority, Highway Transportation, Travel, Transportation
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Park Ridge moves crosswalk signs
Park Ridge has moved several crosswalk signs from the right side of the road to the middle after being notified by the state they were wrongly placed. An engineer with the Illinois Department of Transportation noticed the signs at Devon & Fairview...
Tags: Science and Technology, Starbucks Corp., Park Ridge
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Mundelein eyes underpass at busy railroad crossing
Cutting across town to beat the train may eventually be a thing of the past at one busy Mundelein intersection after the village board agreed to allocate $350,000 to study a potential grade separation at Route 60/83 and the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern...Tags: Elgin, Traffic, Railway Transportation, Science and Technology, Joliet
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IDOT seeks input on 47th Street-East Avenue improvements
Commuters concerned about safety or congestion at the intersection of 47th Street and East Avenue in La Grange are invited to an open house to discuss possible improvements in that area. The Illinois Department of Transportation is hosting an open house...Tags: Brookfield (Cook, Illinois), McCook, La Grange, Joliet, Vulcan Materials Company
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Proposed medians in Homer Glen draw concern
Homer Glen's consultant for a corridor study has promised the village that it will try to get the Illinois Department of Transportation to be flexible regarding plans to install medians on 159th Street, which officials say threaten businesses there. "We...
Tags: Homer Glen, Science and Technology, Business
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Six-figure study to look at development along 159th
Homer Glen is paying more than $100,000 for a study to come up with a framework for development along the village's highest traffic corridor on 159th Street. The study started in December and is expected to take nine months to complete, Homer Glen...Tags: Local Government
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Homer Glen approves tax incentive policy
Trustees have approved Homer Glen's policy for sales tax sharing incentives used to attract businesses. The village has used sales tax sharing incentives in the past, Mayor Jim Daley said at a recent Village Board meeting. "What we're approving...
Tags: Local Government, Homer Glen, Menards, Taxation, Technology
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Glen Ellyn planning reconstruction of Crescent Boulevard
By the time Glenbard West High School opens for the 2015-16 school year, Crescent Boulevard may look completely different. Glen Ellyn engineers are planning a $1.9 million reconstruction of the street, something they say is long overdue and will...
Tags: Reconstruction, Glen Ellyn
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Prep work for La Grange Road project advances
An Orland Park committee voted Monday to spend $1.13 million to bury ComEd utility cables in three different spots along La Grange Road in preparation for the major road widening project set to begin later this year. Some overhead cables have already...
Tags: Science and Technology, Orland Park, Tinley Park
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