Will County Officials, IDOT To Discuss Plans For Third Airport
Will County officials say they plan to meet later this month with the Illinois transportation director to discuss the proposed Peotone airport project.
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Will County officials say they plan to meet later this month with the Illinois transportation director to discuss the proposed Peotone airport project.
The Illinois Department of Transportation says a report quoting a department official as implying a third airport in Peotone was a done deal is premature.
Susan Shea has a message for all the opponents and pessimists who don't think the South Suburban Airport ever will be built near Peotone: "To the naysayers, this is it. The FAA would not tell us this is the preferred place. This is where it's going to be."
The number of deadly crashes on Illinois roads is up 9 percent from this time last year, according to a published report.
Labor leaders joined Illinois Transportation Secretary Ann Schneider and U. S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) in taking a victory lap on Friday to celebrate President Barack Obama signing the new $105 billion federal transportation bill.
McDonough Associates Inc., an engineering firm that was banned from accepting any state contracts after it was accused of overcharges that cost taxpayers millions, has struck back.
A House-Senate conference committee begins meetings next week on Capitol Hill to try to craft a new federal highway and mass transit program. On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin came to Union Station in Chicago to collect ammunition for the Senate package.
The Illinois executive inspector general says the state Department of Transportation directed $3.1 million in road construction money to go to a summer jobs program for teens in Chicago during the Blagojevich administration.
The state is looking to ease traffic congestion at Chicago's Circle Interchange just west of downtown.
Many people would think twice or possibly panic if, late one night on a highway, they saw a car on fire. In all the excitement, they may not notice an unconscious woman hanging out of a window, let alone attempt to pull her out to safety. Fortunately for that woman, Dan Giglio is not one of those people.
Disciplinary action is reportedly in store for some Illinois Department of Transportation workers accused of dumping roadkill instead of disposing of it properly.
There hasn't been much snow on Illinois roads this winter, but the state has a whole lot of snow plows and has been paying hundreds of seasonal plow drivers thousands of dollars a month.
An Illinois Department of Transportation official pleaded guilty Wednesday in DuPage County to driving drunk and was ordered to pay fines and court costs totaling $2,405.
The Illinois Department of Transportation is starting a new program to help paramedics who respond to car accidents to act more quickly - and more intelligently.
A bipartisan push is underway from key lawmakers, who want to extend a federal highway bill and save jobs in Illinois.
An Illinois Department of Transportation worker was struck and killed by a vehicle in a work zone near Woodstock on Monday.
The National Work Zone Memorial has made its way to the Illinois State Fair for the fourth time, and organizers continue hoping it drives home the message of safe driving.
The Illinois Department of Transportation is once again taking applications for its Operation Teen Safe Driving program.
The Illinois Department of Transportation has suspended one of its top officials after he was ticketed for not wearing a seatbelt.
Motorists on the Eisenhower Expressway and elsewhere are not imagining it – Illinois Department of Transportation officials agree that rebuilding the Congress Parkway Bridge is taking a lot longer than originally expected.
The holiday driving should be easier, with many road workers taking a long weekend too.
The Illinois Department of Transportation didn't keep adequate track of employee pay during the 2010 fiscal year, and it's keeping quiet about what's being done to fix the problem.
Cheap trinkets are costing hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote the work of state agencies, while programs to help the needy are being cut.
Plans to expand commuter service on the Heritage Corridor rail line in the southwest suburbs appear to be on track.
