CHICAGO — An animal rights group wants Illinois to install highway signs in memory of cattle killed when trucks hauling them flipped in two sepa...
Plainfield Patch | Karen Sorensen | Email the Author | April 25, 2011 | Posted 06.26.2011
At first glance, you think it's your mistake. At second, you know it's not. Someone in the state sign department doesn't know how to spell Illinois...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011
A tentative deal has been worked out to end the nearly three-week construction strike that idled work on schools, a casino and some 300 road projects,...
Posted 05.25.2011
Thought the commute to downtown was rough this morning? Well, don't expect it to get any better tomorrow. Or next week. Or next year, for that matter....
Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011
An Illinois Department of Transportation civil engineer has been suspended from his job heading road maintenance for the department in Chicago's colla...
Chicago Public Radio | Adriene Hill | Posted 05.25.2011
The Illinois Department of Transportation says it's awarded nearly two-thirds of its stimulus money. But Chicago contractors don't seem to be winning ...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 05.25.2011
Few politicians are heroes when it comes to taking a hard vote to raise taxes. Courage is particularly short now, with the economy staggering and many...
ABC 7 | Posted 05.25.2011
Illinois transportation officials are considering buying more Amtrak passenger cars for popular routes in southern parts of the state. Illinois Depar...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 05.25.2011
The state has subpoenaed road-salt suppliers for bidding information in connection with an investigation of why salt prices have as much as tripled th...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 05.25.2011
Amtrak ridership topped 1 million passengers in the past year for the first time in at least three decades on routes between Chicago and Downstate cit...
AP | Posted 03.01.2012