Eminent Domain Blog
KY 9 Reconstruction Project
The KY 9 Reconstruction Project will relocate 1.5 miles of KY 9 starting at Lowell Street and ending at the ...
Route 53 Extension Finds Glimmer of Hope
Full story here. For anyone uninitiated in its history, Lake County’s mythical Route 53 Extension always seems mired in ...
Route 53/120 Council to Create Finance Committee
Story originally published here. More than a year after recommending that the Illinois Tollway pursue construction of a roadway ...
EDITORIAL: Plan for East Side Highway in Bloomington Needed
Should local governments support a plan that identifies a preferred route for a possible-but-not-real-popular link between Interstates 55 and ...
Business in Rockford Given Hours to Move by IDOT
Sever Walker Padgitt Note: This is an example of a horror story for a landowner subject to eminent domain. ...
Preferred Route Determined for Highway on Eastside of Bloomington
Full story published here. BLOOMINGTON — The “preferred option” for the east-side highway is a route that would follow ...
Mundelein Again Throws its Support Behind IL 53 Extension
Story originally published in the Daily Herald. A little more than a decade ago, some Mundelein officials were among ...