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The annual report included for the first time an estimate of the additional carbon dioxide emissions attributed to traffic congestion. It could help further visualize a largely invisible pollution problem.

IDOT says traffic deaths over Thanksgiving weekend decreased 63 percent from last year.

Illinois officials will begin engineering studies for reconstructing the "Circle Interchange," located west of Chicago's Loop.The point at which the Kennedy, Dan Ryan and Eisenhower expressways and the Congress Parkway converge has been labeled the nation's top traffic bottleneck.Gov.

Chicago lead foots beware: Yesterday, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed off on a plan that would allow the use of speed cameras in school zones and parks.

West suburban Naperville is ending it's red-light camera program. A split vote on Tuesday resulted in the council nixing the red light camera program.

I've been to Rome, so I've seen the dark side: a traffic intersection where everybody decides to get where they're going at the same time, so no one gets anywhere. Cairo might be even worse.

Traffic has been snarled in the Loop this week thanks to the second phase of Revive Wacker Drive, a major reconstruction of the famous double-decker street.