CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn praised a major infrastructure project on Chicago's southeast side as the solution to the train and vehicle congestion that's plagued the area.
Quinn announced the project Tuesday at a Ford Motor Co. assembly plant.
The $146 million project will create an underpass to undo the intersection of train tracks and roads near the plant. Quinn's office says the bottleneck causes 200 hours of delay for the 32,000 vehicles that pass through daily.
Construction is expected to be complete by 2015. Quinn says that will put construction workers on the job for four years.
The program is funded with nearly $65 million from Illinois' capital program along with money from the federal government, Ford, the Norfolk Southern Railroad and others.