Full Text of SJR0032 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority | 3 | | expended time and resources on the Illinois Route 53/120 | 4 | | project, later known as the Tri-County Access project, and | 5 | | estimated in 2019 that it would take substantial funds to | 6 | | complete studies for that project; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, The authority for that project derived from | 8 | | Senate Joint Resolution 14 of the 88th General Assembly, | 9 | | adopted over a quarter-century ago on July 2, 1993, which | 10 | | authorized the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority to expand | 11 | | certain roads; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, In 2012, the 97th General Assembly declined to | 13 | | pass Senate Joint Resolution 77, which would have explicitly | 14 | | renewed authorization for the extension of I-53; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, In July of 2019, the Illinois State Toll Highway | 16 | | Authority requested that the Federal Highway Administration | 17 | | rescind its Letter of Intent for the Tri-County Environmental | 18 | | Impact Statement study, which included roads referenced in | 19 | | Senate Joint Resolution 14 of the 88th General Assembly; and | 20 | | WHEREAS, In August of 2019, the Illinois State Toll | 21 | | Highway Authority stated that the project lacked sufficient |
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| 1 | | local support it previously enjoyed, including the support of | 2 | | the Lake County Board; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, The Lake County Board has included the rescission | 4 | | of Route 53 Extension Authority as part of its legislative | 5 | | agenda for the 2021 session of the General Assembly; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, In August of 2019, the Illinois State Toll | 7 | | Highway Authority declared that it was not in the Tollway's | 8 | | interest to lead further development of the project and | 9 | | terminated the ongoing study and contracts related to the | 10 | | project; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, In October of 2019, the Circuit Court of the 18th | 12 | | Judicial Circuit found that the Illinois State Toll Highway | 13 | | Authority had terminated the Illinois Route 53/120 project; | 14 | | therefore, be it
| 15 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | 16 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF | 17 | | REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING HEREIN, that the section | 18 | | authorizing the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority to | 19 | | extend Illinois Route 53 from Lake-Cook Road to Illinois Route | 20 | | 120 then east to Interstate 94 and the section authorizing the | 21 | | Illinois State Toll Highway Authority to extend the | 22 | | North-South Tollway at Illinois Route 120 to the |
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| 1 | | Illinois-Wisconsin border near Richmond, Illinois is | 2 | | rescinded.
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