Illinois Tollway awards $82.2M in construction, engineering contracts in November

The Illinois Tollway Board of Directors approved one construction contract and eight professional engineering services contracts totaling more than $82.2 million at its November meeting. This included $61 million for construction management contracts as part of the Illinois Tollway’s $4 billion Central Tri-State Tollway (I-294) Project to increase capacity, reduce congestion and improve travel reliability. The Central Tri-State Tollway is being reconstructed to provide congestion relief, reconstruct old infrastructure to meet current and future transportation demand, and address regional needs. More than 220,000 vehicles use the Central Tri-State Tollway daily. A detailed planning and refinement process is underway to complete design and construction plans for the reconstruction of the Central Tri-State Tollway (I-294), including rebuilding the Mile Long Bridge and the BNSF Railway Bridge, both scheduled to begin in 2019.