Category: Infrastructure

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Lake Michigan water next: WaterLink

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Water will, in fact, link the communities of Montgomery, Oswego, and Yorkville. For more than a year, elected officials and staff members from each municipality have researched and reviewed future alternate water source options individually and collectively as a regional team aptly named WaterLink. After months of meetings, presentations, conservation...

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Time for reflection, planning for Illinois’ future

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By John T. Shaw Those in government rarely have time to extract themselves from the relentless rush of daily drama and urgent deadlines to think about the future. Former North Carolina governor Terry Sanford once observed there is no one in the governor’s office looking out the window, pondering the...

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Naperville Electric Utility earns first SEP designation

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The City of Naperville Electric Utility has earned its first Smart Energy Provider (SEP) designation from the American Public Power Association (APPA). This two-year award recognizes the Utility for demonstrating commitment and proficiency in energy efficiency, distributed generation and environmental initiatives, all of which support the goal of providing safe,...

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Infrastructure

Primary Aurora Arterial to Close for Five Days

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Liberty Street between Eola Road and Commerce Street will be completely closed to traffic from 9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 18 to 6 p.m. Friday, October 22. During the five-day period, Canadian National Railway will be conducting a complete renewal. Detour signs are in place for commuters....

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Railway improvement will speed up freight deliveries

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By Peter Hancock A railway improvement project intended to greatly improve traffic congestion between St. Louis and Chicago reached a milestone Tuesday, Oct. 12 as work began on a multimodal transportation hub in the capital city. Governor JB Pritzker was joined at a groundbreaking ceremony by U.S. senators Dick Durbin...

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Slow and steady results: Kane cross country course

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Slow and steady wins the race and the recent opening of Kane County’s newest cross country course, which will attract the Nation’s finest collegiate athletes, is an example of why great things take time. The Northwestern Medicine Cross Country Course, at the Settler’s Hill site in Geneva, was more than...

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Aurora Seeks Input on Illinois Prairie Path Crossing at Farnsworth Avenue

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The City of Aurora will be host to a Public Information Meeting & Open House to seek public input on the preliminary engineering study for future pedestrian and bicycle crossing improvements across Farnsworth Avenue at Marshall Boulevard and the Illinois Prairie Path. The meeting will be held from 5 p.m....

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Aurora City Council focus: Hispanic Heritage Month 2021

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By Jason Crane At the Aurora city government City Council meeting Tuesday, mayor of Aurora, Richard C. Irvin presented a proclamation of Hispanic Heritage Month 2021 in Aurora September 15 through October 15. There are many activities planned in Aurora to celebrate the Latinx community. Click here for article. •...

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State passes bill: One million electric vehicles by 2030

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By Jerry Nowicki The Illinois Senate put the final legislative stamp on an energy regulation overhaul bill Monday to send it to governor JB Pritzker, who said he will sign it. It’s the culmination of years of negotiation, and it marks a policy win on one of Pritzker’s biggest outstanding...

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Elusive energy regulation in State House near deadline

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By Jerry Nowicki The Illinois House was scheduled to return to Springfield Thursday, Sept. 9 to try again at passing an elusive energy regulation overhaul, days after the governor’s office announced support for a new proposal. It’s the latest push for a legislative accomplishment that has eluded governor JB Pritzker...

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Feature Infrastructure

East Side, West Side, all around Aurora street oddities

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In previous essays, I highlighted some of the streets of Aurora because of their historic value. Herewith, I will concentrate on the oddities of some of the City’s streets. Get out your map of Aurora, dear reader, and follow along. (What? You don’t have a map? Shame!) First up: Some...

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Pedestrian and bicycle bridge in Aurora

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The ribbon-cutting ceremony is the signal for the opening of the Aurora downtown pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the Fox River which joins the West Side and East Side adjacent to the RiverEdge Park on Broadway.

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Across the country: Old buildings become affordable housing

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Last of two parts First part is at thevoice.us/conversion-projects-in-new-york-solve-two-major-problems That the COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on housing and homelessness, is an article by Pramod Sukumaran in Salud America! “If you were to just apply a conversion rate of 10% we think you could get something like 14,000...

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Environment Infrastructure

Kane County electricity through Eligo

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Kane County has entered into an agreement with Eligo Energy for electricity supply for residents and small commercial businesses in unincorporated portions of the County beginning at meter read dates in August 2021. Chicago-based Eligo Energy offered the most favorable terms in a competitive bid process. Eligo Energy will provide...

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Solar energy system installed in Naperville facility

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The City of Naperville government, along with the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency (IMEA), was host to a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday, June 4 to formally unveil its new solar energy system at the Springbrook Water Treatment Facility, 3712 Plainfield-Naperville Road. Its more than 3,000-panel solar energy system, a testament to...

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Guatemala gains Auroran Chrissy Wright’s helping hands

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An Aurora woman is spending a voluntourism week in Guatemala to help build a rural school from recycled plastic water bottles. Christina “Chrissy” Wright is help build a school in Xeatzán Bajo, Guatemala, in Central America, June 10-16 in a Bottle School Building program sponsored by Hug It Forward, Inc.,...

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PFC Andrew Meari Highway on its way

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A resolution introduced by State representative Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) was adopted in the Illinois House, Wednesday, May 5. HJR11, a joint resolution to honor Private First Class (PFC) Andrew Meari, was adopted with 116 Yes votes, 0 No votes, and 0 Present votes. This joint resolution would rename a portion...

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State can receive boost with Biden infrastructure

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The stars are aligned for Illinois to become a hotspot in the revival of manufacturing across our great American heartland. For example, I propose a really big, transformative, federal-state-private-sector partnership that would create a cutting-edge, computer chip manufacturing and research facility on Arsenal Island, which straddles the Illinois-Iowa Quad Cities....

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