It ain't over.
Kennedy construction may be winding to a close, but there ismore expressway work to come.
The Illinois Department of Transportation has more than $1billion in tentative major projects on the roster for the Chicagoarea in the next decade or so.
The Stevenson Expy. will go under the knife between the Dan RyanExpy. and the Tri-State Tollway, tentatively beginning in 1998.Then, around 2002, the Eisenhower Expy. will get its turn.
Somewhere out there in the next decade also is the probableshifting of Lake Shore Drive's northbound lanes to the west side ofSoldier Field - a monster undertaking the state and city will joinforces and funds to do.
The plan is to connect the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium andAdler Planetarium in a park triad.
The state is simply finishing what it started with thereconstruction of the Edens Expy. in 1978, state transportationofficials say. Then came the Dan Ryan revamp in 1988.
"These are the major expressways and they are reaching thepoint" where they need serious rehabilitation, said Dick Adorjan,IDOT's statewide spokesman. "Sometimes appearances can be deceiving.On the Stevenson, you can see the potholes, but on the Eisenhower,there could be structural problems you can't see."
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