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Illiana Tollway Protest
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Opponents of the Peotone Airport and the Illiana Expressway met to protest plans for the Illiana Expressway, calling it "Illiana Neosprawl". In October 2012, the Illiana Planning Team announced corridor "B3" and a "No Build" option would continue forward for further study. The B3 corridor travels from near Lowell, Indiana to Wilmington, Illinois and passes through a mapped "South Suburban Airport". The protest took place outside State Senator Toi Hutchinson's office in Olympia Fields. Hutchinson introduced legislation allowing for quick take eminent domain for a public-private Illiana Expressway.
Protest Against the Peotone Airport and the Illiana Expressway
Symerton landowner whose farm would be affected by the Illiana B3
Anthony Rayson of STAND then gave a statement condemning the proposed Illiana as an engine of sprawl in Southern and Eastern Will County:
Beautiful fall colors are on display at Gerdes Grove and the Laughton Preserve in Wilton Center, Illinois. The preserves are part of the Will County Forest Preserve District. Laughton Preserve, Wilton Center, Illinois Laughton Preserve, Wilton Center, Illinois Laughton Preserve, Wilton Center, Illinois Gerdes Grove, Wilton Center, Illinois According to the Forest Preserve District of Will County's website : " Laughton Preserve began with the District's acquisition of an 8-acre parcel from the Gerdes family, and has grown to 430 acres from extensive acquisitions in the 1990s and in 2006. The preserve contains approximately 2 miles of Forked Creek and has been left largely undisturbed, as it protects a remnant of the historic Twelve Mile Grove (a prairie grove 12 miles along the road from Joliet to Danville), portions of the 1832 Ce-Na-Ge-Wine and Joseph Laughton Reservations, and the historic Wallingford Settlement in Wilton ...
As of 9:00 a.m. Friday March 8 2024, online bidding for the historic Gemini Giant stands at $45,000. The statue is up for online bid at the Grafe Auction website . The Gemini Giant has greeted Route 66 travelers to Wilmington for decades:
Union Pacific Railroad's Big Boy 4014 Steam Engine will travel through eastern Will County on Monday, September 9, 2024. The trip is part of Union Pacific's Heartland of America Tour . Big Boy 4014 visited Illinois in 2019, when tens of thousands lined its route to catch a glimpse of the steam engine: The steam engine is scheduled to depart Rochelle's Railroad Park at 9:00 a.m. and arrive at Watseka at 5:00 p.m.. You can track Big Boy 4014 at Union Pacific's Steam Locomotive Tracking Map. The Steam Engine will pass through Crete and Beecher before continuing south towards Watseka.
