Inside the Tollway
Inside the Tollway
News, stories and insight from inside the Illinois Tollway.
Imagine the Illinois Tollway rebuilt entirely as one big rollercoaster! One student at Meadow Glens Elementary School in Naperville asked if that was possible during a presentation by Tollway Project Manager Rick Hanba on how roads are built. “We’ll get on that right now,” chuckled Hanba, recalling countless hours spent in his youth riding rollercoasters at Cedar Point and Kings Island amusement parks in Ohio. Hanba, a Tollway project manager since 2014,...
2021-05-24
Time is running out for Illinois Tollway customers to take advantage of the savings offered by the agency’s popular toll violation relief program, which reduces all existing $20 and $50 fines on unpaid tolls to a $3 fee per toll.The violation relief program, which was launched...
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2021-05-12
Zero injuries in 2020 helped the Rockford maintenance site earn the Illinois Tollway’s annual 2020 Go the Extra Mile for Safety Award, a competition among the agency’s 12 maintenance sites for best safety performance each year.Maintenance workers are responsible for making...
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2021-05-10
The Illinois Tollway is joined with other transportation and safety agencies, the construction industry and labor groups this week to urge drivers to take extra precautions to protect workers and themselves as they travel through roadway work zones this construction...
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2021-04-30
The Illinois Tollway marked a milestone in April for the multi-year project to complete the interchange finally connecting the Tri-State Tollway (I-294) and I-57. The last construction contract for the $719 million project was awarded to Dunnett Bay Construction Company...
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2021-04-30
A spear-wielding troll. Giant ants. Colorfully illuminated trees.Those are some of the sights drivers traveling along the Reagan Memorial Tollway (I-88) just west of the Veterans Memorial Tollway (I-355) have seen at The Morton Arboretum in west suburban Lisle.The Morton...
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2021-04-26
This year, the Illinois Tollway celebrates Earth Day by sharing wildflower seed packets while serving customers, while advancing key contracts that aim to fulfill its commitment to plant 58,000 trees throughout the 294-mile Tollway system. These efforts are being achieved...
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2021-04-22
The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors today approved a balanced 2021 Budget with $1.42 billion in revenue allocated to fund maintenance and operations, debt service transfers and capital investments for the 294-mile system.
The 2021 Budget will allow the Tollway to commit...
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2020-12-16
The Illinois Tollway has sold $500 million in Toll Highway Senior Revenue Bonds to help fund the agency’s ongoing Move Illinois Capital Program, with yields for the new bonds representing the lowest borrowing cost achieved for any of the nine bond issues offered by the Tollway...
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2020-12-11
Recently, the National Safety Council called upon the expertise of the Illinois Tollway and its industry-leading traffic management team to contribute to the national discussion on work zone safety.
A 2020 National Safety Council Green Cross for Safety Award finalist...
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2020-12-10
The Illinois Tollway is preparing to open the new northbound Mile Long Bridge to traffic next week, marking the halfway point in the $500 million construction project to deliver the new bridge and a major milestone for the Central Tri-State Tollway (I-294) Project.
"The Mile...
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2020-11-20
The Illinois Tollway today announced that Samantha Cervantes, a sophomore at Thornton Fractional North High School, Calumet City, is the grand prize winner of the 2021 Illinois Tollway Map Cover Art Contest highlighting “Everyday Heroes” who are making a positive impact on...
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2020-11-13
To help young drivers learn to stay safely in their cars if they become stranded on a high speed roadway, the Illinois Tollway and Illinois State Police traveled to the Chicagoland Speedway to demonstrate how much ground a fast-moving vehicle covers and how long it takes to...
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2020-10-30
In recognition of a unique partnership between the Illinois Tollway and Pace Suburban Bus, the American Public Transportation Association awarded the partnership its 2020 Innovation Award.
The Tollway and Pace worked together to expand transit, deliver roadway improvements...
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2020-10-23
Ricardo Martinez launched his business more than 20 years ago with one dump truck that he drove himself. Since that humble beginning, his company, Martinez Frogs Inc., has expanded to include about 15 employees and now takes on jobs involving excavation, demolition and...
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2020-10-20
Since the Illinois Tollway in June launched TOLLING 2020, a comprehensive tolling relief program, thousands of drivers have taken advantage of the changes to save nearly $50 million by settling their unpaid toll violations at drastically reduced rates.
Through mid-September,...
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2020-10-16
Construction crews completed the 32nd concrete pour Friday, October 2, for the new 4,800-foot-long, five-lane northbound Mile Long Bridge on the Central Tri-State Tollway (I-294).
In total, nearly 16,000 cubic yards of concrete was needed for the bridge deck and walls, an...
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2020-10-05
Illinois Tollway Executive Director José Alvarez has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the International Bridge, Tunnel & Turnpike Association, the worldwide organization representing toll agencies and operators.
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2020-09-18
The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) today announced the seven winners of its prestigious 2020 Toll Excellence Awards acknowledging industry leaders implementing transportation projects worldwide focusing on environmental sustainability,...
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2020-09-04
Illinois Tollway roadway worker Kevin Rice is used to assisting drivers who are involved in crashes or whose vehicles break down along the Tollway system, but on a Thursday last month he went above and beyond to assist a carload of stranded travelers.
On August 13th,...
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2020-09-04
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