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Old Posted Jun 23, 2020, 10:43 PM
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Re: the capping, Steve Fifield was all gung-ho about this a few years ago, even looking to contribute private funding, until he realized just how completely and utterly impossible it is to build infrastructure in this city.

Even if you had the money, you'd probably need to have the governor on board to overrule all the bean counters at IDOT. Alderman Burnett supports it, for whatever that's worth.

If the cap is long enough, it might even be considered a tunnel, and any trucks carrying hazardous materials would need to be re-routed. There's no good expressway alternative, so they'd probably be forced onto Ashland or Western.
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