The Illinois Department of Transportation is hosting a series of statewide public meetings on its new five-year, $8.4 billion highway improvement plan. The first meeting is this (Mon) afternoon at the River Valley Metro Mass Transit Center in Bourbonnais.

The meeting is from 4 to 6 pm.

Other sessions are scheduled for Champaign, Decatur, Peoria and 12 other locations through October. The department's first statewide public transportation plan also will be discussed at several of the sessions.
Written comments on the highway plan can be submitted at the meetings as well at the department's district offices and online through November 16.

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