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Illinois Tollway details planned Ogden Avenue ramp closures, detours for I‑294 reconstruction
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Representatives from the Illinois Tollway on Tuesday told the Hinsdale Village Board that two ramps at the Ogden Avenue interchange on I‑294 will be closed and detoured this summer and fall as part of the agency’s 22‑mile Central Tri‑State reconstruction.
HINSDALE, Ill. — Representatives from the Illinois Tollway on Tuesday told the Hinsdale Village Board that two ramps at the Ogden Avenue interchange on I‑294 will be closed and detoured this summer and fall as part of the agency’s 22‑mile Central Tri‑State reconstruction.
The Tollway said the closures are needed to allow sequencing between mainline and ramp pavement while crews raise and reconfigure grades in the interchange. Officials said the detours are expected to begin in August and wrap up in late October, and that the agency is aiming to keep the closures to about 90 days.
“The reason we have to implement these detours is because of the complexity of the pavement down below the sequencing of activities that have to happen,” said Jeff Allen, deputy chief of engineering for the…
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