Last month, Stephen Newcomb, an ETP minuteman, rescued two women from a burning vehicle while on duty on Chicago’s Kennedy Expressway. Yesterday, IDOT Secretary Omer Osman presented Stephen with ...

Other IDOT diverging diamond interchanges are located at I-55 and Weber Road, and I-80 and Houbolt Road in Will County; I-88 and Route 59 in Naperville; and in downstate Marion.

One IDOT employee, highway maintainer Raley Cowman, said that he had over 50 hours of overtime last year clearing roads. "It varies, depending on the weather," Cowman said.

IDOT reported 1,103 fatal traffic crashes last year that killed 1,196 people, a decline of about 3.5% from 2023. A walker crosses Miner Street across from the Metra train station in downtown Des ...