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Illiana Expressway Closer to Completion
(IRN)-A new highway in northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana is inching closer to reality. The Illiana Expressway, a joint project of the two states, now has two years' worth of money devoted to its study.

Guy Tridgell, spokesman for the Illinois Department of Transportation, says "Tier One" of the process includes evaluating possible routes and performing an environmental impact study. Tridgell says the hope is the new highway would relieve some of the traffic – particularly long-haul truck traffic – on Interstate 80/94 and the Tri-State Tollway.

The Illiana would connect I-55 in Illinois and I-65 in Indiana.

(Source: Illinois Radio Network)
06 09 11 by Newsroom
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