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Search results for "Illinois Department of Transportation" ...
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"Minority Contractors in Illinois Get Few Stimulus Dollars"
WBEZ Radio "analyzed contract documents" from the Illinois Department of Transportation to investigate where the money awarded from the Recovery Act is actually going. The analysis revealed that minority- and female-owned businesses are not getting their fair share of the funds.
Tags: Recovery Act; Illinois Department of Transportation; Federal Transportation Secretary; Ray LaHood; American Reinvestment and Recovery Act; stimulus act
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Connected Company Cleans Up
Illinois state signed a contract with PWS Environmental for more than $500,000 to pressure-wash the exteriors of state-owned buildings. Most of the work was done for the Department of Transportation. Projects included office buildings, trucks and even cleaning and sealing a salt barn that had never held salt, and had already been cleaned and sealed a few months earlier. The owner of PWS was revealed to be the brother-in-law of the then-IDOT finance and administration officer.
Tags: Illinois Department of Transportation; PWS Environmental; corruption; conflict of interest
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Terminal illness
The "state-of-the-art" MidAmerica Airport, located in St. Clair County (Illinois), built in 1997, cost $300 million and was meant to be a "reliever" for St. Louis Lambert International Airport and also to feed off Scott Air Force base's needs. However different factors, including Lambert's expansion, made the investment almost useless, inasmuch it was not used by any commercial airlines. That fact was on its way to undermine a 1988 study by the Illinois Department of Transportation that predicted 2.8 million passengers would use MidAmerica Airport by 2005.
Tags: Scott Air Force Base; MidAmerica Airport; Lambert International Airport; Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); Floyd "Rick" Hargrove; St. Clair County; Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT); Military Airport Program (MAP); Leonard Griggs Regional Commerce and Growth Association (RCGA); John Baricevic; Leadership Council of Southwestern Illinois; Air Line Pilots Association