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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
CST Editorial Board

Making Dan Ryan, I-57 into tollways won’t stop expressway shootings

State police investigate a shooting on I-57 near 119th Street. Turning the expressway and the adjoining Dan Ryan into toll roads won’t solve the problem. (Justin Jackson/Sun-Times)

The state has tried a number to ways to curb expressway shootings, such as the one that killed one person and seriously wounded another Tuesday on the Eisenhower near Cicero Avenue.

But state Rep. Thaddeus Jones, D-South Holland, wants to fight the problem in a way this editorial board finds quite odd: By turning the Dan Ryan Expressway and adjoining I-57 into toll roads.

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