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The Illinois tollway is entering one of the most consequential construction seasons of its 15-year, $14 billion road building program and it s doing so after losing an executive director and a chairman in the last five weeks. "We will be fine," the agency s new chairwoman says.
Daily Herald opinion: The departure of the Illinois Tollways executive director, on the heels of the replacement of the former tollway board chairman, gives the transportation agency a new chance to institute positive reforms.
The Illinois tollway s executive director has resigned, just weeks after the chairman left amid internal turbulance. The shakeup comes three years after Gov. J.B. Pritzker ushered in a cleanup team to fix the agency.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported in 2020 that Jose Alvarez and Will Evans got their jobs from Gov. JB Pritzker after being “strongly endorsed” by a group that included John Hooker, a former ComEd lobbyist who became embroiled in a bribery scandal involving the utility and now-indicted former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan.