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Gas prices have come down following the midterm election in some locations. According to Gas Buddy, you can find unleaded for as low as $3.76 a gallon in Oglesby and Peru. Some La Salle stations are down to $3.89 a gallon. However in Princeton, Streator, Mendota, and Ottawa, you're still facing gas prices between $4.49 to $4.69 a gallon.
A portion of South Adelaide Street in Normal will be closed for pavement repairs from Monday, Nov. 9, through Wednesday, Nov. 11.
Illinois drivers pay a state gas tax of 48.3 cents a gallon through Dec. 31, the same rate as before July 1, after lawmakers suspended the automatic inflation increase. The Illinois Department of Revenue says Public Act 104-0468, signed June 16, suspended the scheduled July 1 adjustment for six months. The department’s rate bulletin lists... The post Illinois drivers pay a frozen 48.3-cent-a-gallon state gas tax through Dec. 31 after lawmakers suspended the July inflation increase, the state revenue department says appeared first on The Financial Wire .
Reported stop-sign challenge raises concerns as Illinois prepares for icy roads, snow and earlier darkness.
Metra's old email alert system shuts down Thursday as a new text and email notification service launches.
A short journey across a state line can deliver the pleasure of train travel without requiring a cross-country holiday. Burlington, Iowa, and Galesburg, Illinois, sit on the California Zephyr route, making them a useful pair for a modest rail outing built around time in one destination. This is an out-and-back...
A car that hasn't moved from its display pedestal in years somehow got busted speeding through Brooklyn. The Volo Museum in Illinois says it received a $50 traffic citation from New York City for its replica of KITT, the talking black Trans Am from Knight Rider, even though the car never left the building.
Representatives from Metra, the CTA and the newly formed Northern Illinois Transit Agency, or NITA, shrugged off an early light rain Saturday to spend six hours talking with the public at the Oak Park Farmers Market. . Wednesday Journal observed a general public clearly interested both in hearing what public transit...
IOWA, ILLINOIS & MISSOURI— Gas prices have trended down across the Tri-States in the past week. The national average for a gallon of regular unleaded is $4.12, down twelve cents from last Wednesday. The average price for a gallon of diesel is $6.27, down seven cents from last week.
A short museum train ride can be good value and still become an expensive day if the surrounding plan is careless. At Monticello Railway Museum, the question is less about chasing a spectacular landscape and more about whether historic railway equipment and a manageable excursion fit your group. The $253...
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Transportation is hosting free virtual workshops in November as part of its continuing Building Blocks of Success series for Disadvantaged Business Enterprise firms interested in strengthening their skills, growing their business and bidding on state projects. New and existing DBEs, as well as...
It’s been just over a year since Illinois’ “Halloween Miracle” prevented Chicagoland transit from turning into a pumpkin. In the wee hours of October 31, 2025, Springfield lawmakers rescued the system from the fiscal cliff, and overhauled its governance structure, by passing the Northern Illinois Transportation Authority Act.
CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) — Drivers may finally see some relief at the gas pump in the coming weeks after months of rising prices. GasBuddy published its weekly report on prices Monday morning, and the fuel savings platform reported that average gasoline prices fell in almost every state in the last week. Diesel prices also fell […]
Village officials will consider creating a new downtown zoning district intended to support a walkable mix of businesses and housing at the Nov. 4 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. The commission is also scheduled to consider a recommendation on amendments addressing off-street parking, connections between parking lots, landscaping and bicycle parking.
Somewhere in southern Illinois, you can pedal a bike straight through a hill. Trains used to rumble through that same tunnel. Now families on bikes and on foot roll through it instead, with nothing louder than a few excited shouts echoing off the walls. That swap fascinates me. Railroads needed...
A wooden interurban car built in 1902 still carries riders along the Fox River every fall weekend. Its museum calls it the oldest operating interurban car in North America. I love that a ride older than most grandparents still runs on its own old line. That car is only one...
Interstate 80 through northern Illinois is one of the busiest freight corridors in the United States. From the Indiana border through Joliet and across to the Iowa state line, I-80 carries a constant stream of 80,000-pound commercial trucks running the supply chain that connects the coasts. Passenger cars and semi-trucks share this road at highway speeds, and the physics of that combination are unforgiving when something goes wrong.
The Illinois Department of Transportation will intermittently close lanes on Eastbound U.S. Route 24 and the westbound U.S. Route 150 ramp starting Monday to repair a damaged bridge beam.
