Will County News

There will be an Illiana Expressway meeting tonight--June 18, 2013--in Peotone at Peotone High School.  The meeting is from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m..  The Illinois and Indiana Departments of Transportation will be presenting refinements to the B3 corridor including interchange types and locations, local road connectivity, overpass and underpass locations, and more. A question and answer forum will be held at 6:00 p.m..

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...