Will County News

Representative Larry Walsh, Jr. has introduced a Joint House Resolution  that would expand the Illinois Tollway System to include I-80 from Route 47 in Morris to I-294. Full text of the Illinois Joint House Resolution: " Authorizes the Illinois State Highway Authority to expand the Illinois toll highway system to include Interstate I-80 between I-294 at milepost 112 and Illinois Route 47 in Morris at milepost 154. The project will be completed in a manner that supports diversity involvement in the project work and economic development in the region ." I-80 through Will County handles traffic from the largest inland port in North America, the CenterPoint BNSF and Union Pacific intermodals, where shipping containers are transferred between trains and semi trucks.  Warehouses and Distribution Centers for companies like Wal-Mart, Amazon, IKEA, Home Depot, and more have built in Will County in the last two decades and have added to semi truck traffic in the area....

The Illiana Expressway planners met this week in Peotone, identifying two options to continue forward:  Building the expressway designed to link Interstate 55 in Illinois with Interstate 65 in Indiana along a route running roughly from Wilmington to Peotone Or, consider a no action. The final Tier 1 Corridor Planning Group/Technical Task Force meeting was held Oct. 9, 2012 at the Will County Atrium. A graphic presentation of the comparison by the Illiana Planning Team between routes is posted. Go here--- http://illianacorridor.org/get_involved/cpg_ttf.aspx  for a full report.  Interactive Map of the B3 Corridor---- HERE . According to the website, a formal announcement will be made in November or December of the preferred actions.          The presentation by the study committee calls Corridor B3 best for:        • Attracting cars and trucks to the Illiana        • Reducing E-W regional...

UPDATE 2: April 2013 Public Meetings on Tier Two of the Illiana Corridor Study Here are the maps showing the proposed A3S2 route for the proposed Illiana Expressway.  Maps are from the Illiana Corridor Study Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Proposed Illiana Expressway A3S2 corridor from I-65 in Indiana, north of Lowell, Indiana Illiana Corridor A3S2 alignment south and east of Beecher, Illinois Illiana Corridor A3S2 as it goes north of the proposed Peotone Airport Illiana Corridor A3S2 as it travels south of Pauling Road Proposed Illiana Corridor A3S2 as it travels south of Manhattan, Illinois  Illiana Corridor A3S2 as it travels north of Elwood, Illinois and near Channahon, Illinois to connect with I-55