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Supplement for Design Engineering McDonough Associates - 143rd Street, Southwest Highway to Wolf Road
History
Over the past several years, McDonough Associates Inc. (MAI) of Chicago, Illinois, has been performing Phase I Engineering for the 143rd Street corridor, generally from LaGrange Road west to Will Cook Road as conditions have allowed them to continue. 143rd Street is an IDOT road, with the Village taking the lead on advance engineering and ultimately reconstruction. Federal funding has been secured for the engineering and construction with the local match set at thirty percent (30%).
The 143rd Street corridor project was split into two smaller projects (LaGrange Road to Wolf Road (Segment 1) and Wolf Road to Will Cook Road (Segment 2) when challenges with right-of-way acquisition along the Cook County Forest Preserve District (FPDCC) property arose. The scope of their work for both projects is to develop a Phase I report and preliminary plans, etc., for the proposed reconstruction and expansion of the corridor from 2 lanes to 4 lanes with a shared median turn lane or raised median, depending upon location.
Since the original work has been undertaken, the easternmost limits for Segment 1 have been reduced from the LaGrange Road terminus to Southwest Highway due to advance work on 143rd Street from generally LaGrange to Beacon related to the Village’s Triangle Development.
As noted, the Segment 1 project was suspended for a number of years due to the uncertainty of construction options. Right-of-way acquisition issues arose during Phase I development regarding the roadway’s proposed relocated proximity to residential properties within this section, and the potential need to obtain right-of way from the FPDCC. Since the early 2011 acquisition of the needed right of way from FPDCC, work on this project is able to be fully resumed.
During late 2010, the Village asked McDonough to provide a Feasibility Report regarding an opportunity to re...
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