Inside the Tollway
The Illinois Tollway is operating special Zero Weather Road Patrols around the clock over the Christmas holiday to more quickly locate and assist drivers who become stranded on the Tollway system during the cold weather and dangerous wind chills forecast to continue into the weekend. The...
24 Dec 2020
Illinois Tollway roadway maintenance worker Brian Bamonti had just started his shift on Thanksgiving Day when he stopped to assist a driver pulled over on the shoulder of the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) near South Barrington. The driver said he had just changed a flat...
22 Dec 2020
The Illinois Tollway is extending its popular toll violation relief program through June 30, 2021, providing drivers with an additional six months to take advantage of the TOLLING 2020 reforms that reduced all existing $20 and $50 violation fines to $3 fee per toll. ...
17 Dec 2020
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...
16 Dec 2020
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...
11 Dec 2020