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Illinois deploys Captain Tollway - if you don't go to the website, we'll have the kids nag you


Illinois Tollway has rolled out a goofy looking icon-figure they're dubbing Captain Tollway. Musclebound, in some kind of boxing attire plus cape in a Superman allusion, the Captain is supposed to help instruct motorists on profound stuff like planning your summer journey by checking on road conditions, the location of service plazas and the standing of your transponder account before setting off.
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Illinois Tollway has violations system now humming


After a longer than hoped for transition, the Illinois Tollway has its new violations processing system working. The first violations notices in almost a year went out August 21, concentrating on big offenders, a spokesman told us. To start with about a thousand a day violations notices were going out, many of them with long lists of violations.

Now about 5,000 a day are going out.
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Chutzpah piled on plagiarism at Chicago Tribune


The Chicago Tribune ran a front pager "Tollway has let cheats off the hook since fall" August 16 that reproduced item by item what we ran here in TOLLROADSnews six days earlier - August 10.

See our piece at

http://www.tollroadsnews.com/node/3071

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Tolls make sense


Tolls make sense

Originally published in issue 54 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Mar 2001.

Page:4

Subjects:editorial
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Illinois Gov Closer to Jail


Illinois Gov Closer to Jail

Originally published in issue 50 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Jul 2000.

Page:17

Subjects:corruption jail

Facilities:Illinois Tollway

Agencies:ISTHA

Locations:IL

Sources:Ryan

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ILLINOIS:Tolling, Detolling, or Just Venting?


ILLINOIS:Tolling, Detolling, or Just Venting?

Originally published in issue 46 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Feb 2000.

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Subjects:detolling anti-toll de-toll
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