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A group that opposes the proposed Illiana Expressway has joined forces with a LaPorte, Indiana activist group opposed to a proposed Norfolk Southern intermodal rail yard in Union Mills, reports nwi.com. "We have mutual goals because the wolf is at the back door.
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The Illiana Expressway would become the third east-west expressway to connect northeastern Illinois and northwest Indiana. In 1953, the Kingery-Borman expressway combination opened. Initially part of Interstate 80, this route would become one of the most important coast-to-coast Interstate highways in the United States. The Chicago Skyway opened five years later, on April 16, 1958.[4] With the newly-opened Indiana Toll Road, the Skyway and Toll Road became a second coast-to-coast Interstate highway, as Interstate 90 ran through city of Chicago proper.
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Look for the Illiana Expressway issue to come back onto the front burner as a feasibility study is due sometime this month. Illiana Expressway has more. Hat Tip to Blue County in a Red State for spotting the Chicago Tribune report.
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That was the route when the Illiana Expressway was first proposed more than two decades ago. It is a road that simply makes sense -- whether it is a freeway or a tollway.
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