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Chicago Tribune: 5-year Illinois toll road work nears completion under budget, ahead of schedule

Nov. 16, 2009 | 11:19 am No comments

After years of weaving around concrete barriers, navigating tricky lane changes and slowing for 45 mph work zones on Illinois toll roads, construction-weary motorists finally have clear sailing in sight, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Just in time for winter, the Illinois tollway authority said that this month it will wrap up most of a five-year program to rebuild roads and interchanges and widen toll roads.

“We’re driving toward the finish line,” chief engineer Paul Kovacs recently told Illinois State Toll Highway Authority board members.

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