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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, Section 14.1 of the Toll Highway Act provides that
3 prior to the issuance of bonds for or the commencement of
4 construction of any new toll highway, that particular toll
5 highway shall be authorized by joint resolution of the General
6 Assembly; and
 
7     WHEREAS, The General Assembly finds that it is in the best
8 interests of the People of the State of Illinois to expand the
9 Illinois toll highway system; therefore, be it
 
10     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
11 NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE
12 SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the Illinois State Toll Highway
13 Authority be authorized to expand the Illinois toll highway
14 system to include a Crosstown Expressway, with the Expressway
15 to be constructed generally along railroad right-of-way in the
16 Cicero Avenue corridor from near the Kennedy/Edens Expressway
17 junction south to approximately 75th Street, and then,
18 following railroad rights-of-way, east to the Dan Ryan
19 Expressway; and that every possible effort be made to use
20 railroad right-of-way and minimize the disruption of all
21 residential areas; and be it further
 
22     RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be delivered to

 

 

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1 the directors of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority.