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Grace Barbic
Capitol News Illinois
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker announced Wednesday the release of a six-year, $20.7 billion construction plan to improve roads and bridges throughout the state, an annual process which the Illinois Department of Transportation oversees to target infrastructure spending.
The Highway Improvement Program, funded through the Rebuild Illinois capital infrastructure plan passed in 2019, will reconstruct nearly 2,779 miles more miles of roads and 7.9 million square feet of bridge deck between fiscal year 2022 and 2027, according to the governor’s office.
The projects in the plan will create and support thousands of jobs, “bolstering our pandemic recovery in one more way,” Pritzker said at a news conference Wednesday in Springfield.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks outside of the Illinois Department of Transportation building in Springfield Wednesday, announcing the state s multi-year road and bridge plan. PETER HANCOCK, CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
SPRINGFIELD â Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Wednesday the release of a six-year, $20.7 billion construction plan to improve roads and bridges throughout the state, an annual process which the Illinois Department of Transportation oversees to target infrastructure spending.
The Highway Improvement Program, funded through the Rebuild Illinois capital infrastructure plan passed in 2019, will reconstruct nearly 2,779 miles more miles of roads and 7.9 million square feet of bridge deck between fiscal year 2022 and 2027, according to the governorâs office.
Andrew Sullender/Chicago Sun-Times
SPRINGIELD In his first entirely maskless news conference since last year, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a $20.7 billion infrastructure plan Wednesday to improve Illinois roads and bridges over the next six years.
Under the governor’s plan, 2,779 miles of Illinois roads and 7.9 million square feet of the state’s bridges will be redone or created anew. This adds to the 290 bridges and 2,700 miles of road that have been worked on since Pritzker’s Rebuild Illinois plan was passed in 2019.
“The projects in this multi-year plan will continue to create and support hundreds of thousands of jobs for hardworking Illinoisans across our state bolstering our pandemic recovery in yet one more way,” Pritzker said.