In the private sector, when a big project goes more than 50% over budget and takes twice as long as promised, heads roll. For Illinois Democrats, however, it’s a cause for celebration.
And so it was earlier this month, when the notoriously delay-prone Jane Byrne Interchange was declared done at a ribbon-cutting led by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
This spaghetti-like highway project near downtown Chicago forms the junction between the Dan Ryan, Kennedy and Eisenhower expressways, plus Ida B. Wells Drive. It was previously known as the Circle Interchange, and its (more or less) completion comes at a pivotal time for traffic in the metropolitan area.
