Transportation

On Sept. 19, the Illinois Senate Transportation Committee held a hearing on the state of public transit and its impact on climate change at Lake County’s Central Permit Facility in Libertyville.

The work zone is east of Prairieville Road outside of Sterling. Work will repair an inlet in the median. One lane will be closed in each direction to do the work.

Once completed, the pathway would start south of the railroad tracks at the corner of Nachusa Avenue and Broadway Street. It would continue south until it reaches Bloody Gulch Road, where it would swing east and tie into the city’s Gateway development.

New interchange planned for Lockport Street/Airport Road. Route 126 interchange would be reconstructed.

The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning is launching a major survey called My Daily Travel this fall to better understand the travel needs of residents in northeastern Illinois, including Lake County.

Town Hall Road and Melugins Grove Road will be closed south of U.S. 30 and will have marked detours during the project.

Plans to extend rail service between Chicago and Rockford is the topic of public meetings Tuesday in Elgin and Wednesday in Huntley. Stops are planned for both towns.

Dixon Public Works says a crew from Visu-Sewer will be on Fargo Avenue to line the sewer main from Monday, Sept. 16, through Friday, Sept. 20.

Huntley has been chosen as a stop on a new Chicago-to-Rockford Metra train line, and local officials are mulling where in downtown Huntley the station might go.

Construction is scheduled to begin Monday, Sept. 16, on the Illinois 78 bridge over Interstate 88 in Whiteside County, weather permitting, the Illinois Department of Transportation announced.

Vintage steam locomotive does not disappoint rail fans who came from miles around.

The lines were long, but the wait was worth it for the estimated 61,000 people who journeyed to Ogle County on Sunday to see the Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014 steam engine. Parked at the Union Pacific’s Global lll Intermodal Terminal (GB3), southwest of town, thousands made the trip to see the historic locomotive at the free, daylong event.

Railroad enthusiasts and others watch the big steam engine head east

The Illinois Department of Transportation announced Friday that weather permitting, construction will begin Monday, Sept. 9, on the Illinois 26 bridge over Coon Creek in Lee County.

The Illinois Department of Transportation has announced that, weather permitting, construction on Freeport Road in Ogle and Whiteside counties will begin this week.

Metra will offer special service on the Heritage Corridor Line on six Saturdays this fall, so residents can explore the communities along the route that begins in Joliet and ends in Chicago at Union Station.

Plans call for a purple route and a white route that run every hour, Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. The two routes would intersect in the middle of Dixon’s downtown area so riders would be able to transfer between the two routes.

Work is expected to continue until late September.

Will County Executive Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant focused on expanding government services and the strength of the local business climate in her annual State of the County address. Some budget priorities outlined.

The Lake County Division of Transportation has launched a new interactive dashboard displaying the more than 300 projects in its 2024-2029 Transportation Improvement Program that was recently adopted by the Lake County Board.

IDOT is hosting a telephone town hall meeting at 6 p.m. Aug. 15.

Work to be done by the end of August.

DuPage County commuters can share their vision for trains and buses Friday at a Senate transit forum in Naperville

The actual work on the project is estimated to begin late winter or early spring.

The new Dial-a-Ride. service boundary allows residents to travel anywhere in Will County and locations within one mile of the county border, plus parts of southern Cook County.

City officials expect the work to be substantially completed by the end of October.

Will County will hold the meeting at the Nowell Park Recreation Center in Joliet on Tuesday to discuss the first phase of the project.

Three of the four ramps connecting to and from I-88 will be closed as part of the project.

The Kane County Committee of the Whole will discuss the future of public transit, as speakers will detail proposed legislation that would merge the CTA, Metra and Pace into a single agency.

A long-term closure and detour of the Atkinson Road Bridge over the Tri-State Tollway (Interstate 94) in Lake County was scheduled to begin July 10.

While the agencies are currently buoyed by pandemic-era funding and temporary allowances in state law, the agencies will face a cumulative annual budget gap of $730 million in operating costs beginning in 2026

Work will include repairing the bridge deck, replacing the bridge joints and installing a new deck overlay.

Known for the “Little Nash Rambler,” Saturday’s event showed Nash newbies that the vehicles were way, way more than that.

When the skies cleared Saturday, it was “shinetime” for 50 Nash cars at the Stronghold Camp & Retreat Center, north of Oregon, Illinois. The 2024 “Grand Nashional,” hosted by the Upper Mississippi River Region of the Nash Car Club of America, featured models spanning six decades of the iconic, independent car line. Known for the “Little Nash Rambler” Saturday’s event showed Nash-newbies that the vehicles were way, way more than that.

Resurfacing begins July 8.

The Minooka Village Board confirmed its intent to file a lawsuit against Canadian National and its subsidiary, Wisconsin Central Limited to find out whether it can enforce its preset weight limits on McLinden Road.

128 vehicles took part in show at Oregon Park East on Sunday, June 16, 2024.

Woodstock seeks input on Route 47 project.

The first meeting will be from 5-6 p.m. June 25 at Discover Dixon – Dixon Chamber of Commerce, 87 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon.

Federal officials are investigating an unusual rolling motion during the flight of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max

Wilbert Stroeve of the Chicago Map Society will present his research on a 1905 road trip from Chicago to Lake Geneva at a McHenry County Historical Society event.

Downtown Joliet has seen a resurgence in recent years. The Gateway Transportation Center could become the next focus for downtown redevelopment.

Gas prices are once again on the decline across the U.S., bringing some relief to drivers now paying a little less to fill up their tanks.

Eastbound lanes on the Charles J. Miller Road bridge in the McHenry area are due to be closed Tuesday, June 11, for a deck inspection.

The shutoff is to reduce the number of mayflies on the bridge pavement.

Safe Routes to School grant to total $223,720.

The bulk of the work, which includes cleaning, repairing, painting and installation of new lighted letters, is scheduled during off-peak hours from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m.

Representatives from offices and bureaus who oversee both technical and administrative support responsibilities will be available to discuss current and upcoming employment opportunities at the various IDOT locations.

The annual event is held in Richmond Park in Lyndon on the first Sunday of June.

Those who use McHenry County's dial-a-ride program will have the option of using a rideshare service like Uber, with the county subsidizing the rides.