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Change of Subject..the digital signs over area expressways counting the number of traffic fatalities in the state won't be updated for 2013 until next month, IDOT says, but the running total is kept here and shows we're now at 103, 8 ahead...... -
States driven toward 'zero death' crash goal
It's a long-shot safety campaign known in shorthand as "zero deaths." Cutting the death toll to zero in crashes across all forms of transportation is an aggressive and perhaps unrealistic goal, but Illinois and more than half of the other states are...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Justice System, Health and Safety at School, Michigan Avenue, Crime, Law and Justice
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Widening of I-290, expanding Blue Line to be discussed
Widening the Eisenhower Expressway and extending the CTA Blue Line to Mannheim Road are among the improvements still under consideration in the state transportation department's study of Interstate 290, state officials said. The improvements will be...
Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, Highway Transportation, Transportation, Travel
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Des Plaines cops face suspensions in DUI pay investigation, city says
Tribune reporterSeveral Des Plaines police officers face possible suspensions stemming from a city investigation of alleged misreporting of DUI arrests to obtain overtime pay, officials said. The overtime pay reportedly came from a federally funded grant designed to...Tags: Des Plaines
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After nine years, improvements coming to Green Bay Road and Winnetka Avenue intersection
Illinois Department of Transportation had to approve traffic light that Winnetka officials have wanted for years Winnetka is finally improving the intersection of Green Bay Road and Winnetka Avenue in a project that will have taken more than nine...
Tags: Science and Technology, Traffic, Transportation Accidents, Disasters and Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents
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Sandi Jackson's successor sworn in as alderman
Clout StreetFormer Illinois Department of Transportation official Natashia Holmes is the new 7th Ward alderman after the City Council today approved Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s appointment of her to the South Side post. Holmes, 37, takes the seat vacated by former...Tags: Sandi Jackson, Bipolar Disorder, Local Government, Chicago Mayor, Jesse Jackson, Jr.
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Emanuel names former IDOT manager to succeed Sandi Jackson
Clout StreetMayor Rahm Emanuel today announced that he has appointed a former Illinois Department of Transportation special projects manager to replace Sandi Jackson as 7th Ward alderman. Natashia Holmes left IDOT in 2012 and recently worked as a project manager...Tags: Glen Ellyn, Sandi Jackson, Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago Mayor, Jesse Jackson, Jr.
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Willow Road expansion to disrupt Northfield traffic
Motorists through Northfield will likely be met with disruptions, but not detours, as the Willow Road construction project begins. Some 40 years in the making, the long-debated concept of widening the two-lane Willow Road to four lanes with a center...Tags: Highway Transportation, Dundee, Road Transportation, Transportation, Travel
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Road projects in Crystal Lake hurt businesses
It would be tough to say who — business owners or motorists — are more relieved that two major multi-million dollar road construction projects have wrapped up in McHenry County. Julie Joyce, third generation owner of The Barn Nursery and...Tags: Crystal Lake, McHenry, Algonquin, Cary, Small Businesses
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State hits brakes on city plans for protected bike lane
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to install 100 miles of protected bicycle lanes in Chicago by 2015 is running into a speed bump thrown down by the state. Streets where the Chicago Department of Transportation has installed or plans to build protected bike...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Michigan Avenue, Chicago Mayor, Financial District, Rahm Emanuel
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VW billboard seems to invite drivers to scan code
A suburban Volkswagen dealership has what could be a smashing deal for distracted drivers — and it's coming to an end soon. Autobarn Volkswagen of Countryside is running a billboard on the Stevenson Expressway that may tempt drivers to take...
Tags: Volkswagen
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Geneva moves to buy land to improve East State Street
The City of Geneva is hoping to buy up parcels of land along East State Street to make the area more marketable to developers. With little discussion and no objection, aldermen on Monday night approved the first move in the plan — a $95,000...Tags: CVS Corp.
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