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Can’t the company find some mayor more interested in the warehouse? Why does it have to be Elwood? - Andersonville Right Winger - Wednesday, Feb 3, 21 @ 10:08 am: Hopefully State Rep. Larry Walsh Jr., who is from Elwood, has enough clout with the Governor’s office to stop this awful project What Will co doesn’t need is 1000s more trucks jamming up the roads. Build three or four lane bridges over the Illinois river on I-55 and on I-80 over the Canal in Joliet before adding more truck traffic. Hope fully this project development gets placed on the backs of the developers. These warehouses typically hire temporary workers who don’t live in the communities they are located in. They drain local tax money better spent on schools, police and fire pensions, and local infrastructure not related to self serving development. My dad was a die hard old school Republican and he would be spinning in his grave at the thought of businesses demanding, extorting, or begg ....
A rendering of the bridge connecting the Compass business park to two Will County intermodal centers. U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush calls it the bridge to the future. To many Will County officials and residents, it s a bridge too far. But the opinion that really matters now belongs to Gov. J.B. Pritzker. The fate of a massive industrial park planned in Joliet that could employ as many as 10,000 people rests largely in the hands of the governor, who has the final say over a proposed bridge spanning Route 53 that s essential to the development. It may be just a bridge, but it represents the hopes of pro-growth government officials and the fears of local residents fed up with heavy truck traffic originating from a pair of gigantic rail yards nearby. And the outcome of the standoff could be a turning point for a region that s become one of the nation s largest logistics hubs and, as a consequence, a key pillar of Illinois economy. ....