Rebuild Illinois is paying off for our infrastructure, labor workforce

The $40 billion the state is spending on Illinois’ highway system has already improved more than 5,300 roads and another 500-plus structures, like bridges.

While new federal infrastructure investments are just coming online, we are more than four years into Rebuild Illinois — the historic, bipartisan $40 billion modernization effort signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in 2018.

According to the Illinois Department of Transportation, the first $12 billion invested by this effort into our state highway system has already improved more than 5,339 state road miles and another 533 structures (such as bridges), and made another 762 safety improvements.