NIRPC committee gives thumbs up to Illiana Expressway

A key committee of the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission on Tuesday gave a green light to the Illiana Expressway, voting to recommend including the 47-mile expressway in regional transportation plans.

The vote was 18 in favor to 8 against, with one abstention at the morning meeting of the NIRPC Transportation Policy Committee at the Sycamore Room in Woodland Park in Portage…Please click here to read the rest of   Keith Benman’s story in the Times.