Aurora Beacon-News - 12/29/02 - Top Ten Local Stories of 2002
September
Daily Herald - 9/20/02 - Landowners file lawsuit to wipe
expressway proposal from their deeds
Chicago Tribune - 9/20/02 - Beltway
critics sue over corridor plan
Aurora Beacon-News - 9/20/02 - Outer-belt foes sue state
Aurora Beacon-News - 9/18/02 - Hastert closes on new property
Aurora Beacon-News - 9/11/02 - Study says Eldamain extension is viable
Chicago Tribune - 9/6/02 - Beltway foes jeer Hastert's farm bid
Aurora Beacon-News - 9/5/02 - Hastert looks to buy house northwest of
Plano
Kane County Chronicle - 9/3/02 - Editorial: County officials should
steer clear of lawsuit
Chicago Tribune - 9/1/02 - Beltway
opponents prepare to sue state
Elburn Herald - 8/29/02 - Politicians
speak up at outerbelt rally
Elburn Herald - 8/29/02 - Marvel Davis nurtures history in Big
Rock
Aurora Beacon-News - 8/29/02 - Hastert urges cooperation among local,
federal leaders
Aurora Beacon-News - 8/27/02 - Kendall chairman plans letter to IDOT
Aurora Beacon-News - 8/26/02 - Outer Belt gets bashed
Aurora Beacon-News - 8/21/02 - Outer-belt landowners ponder suit
Aurora Beacon-News - 8/21/02 - Prairie Parkway adds new twist to
Eldamain plan
Aurora Beacon-News - 8/19/02 - Outer-belt rally to show opposition
Elburn Herald - 8/15/02 - IDOT: No more Parkway public hearings
Elburn Herald - 8/15/02 - St. Charles attorney plans to
challenge IDOT
Aurora Beacon-News - 8/14/02 - Letter to Editor: Hastert's Disaster
Joliet Herald-News - 8/12/02 - Highway causes dissension
Aurora Beacon-News - 8/10/02 - Outer-belt opponents want more hearings
Aurora Beacon-News - 8/9/02 - Letter: Hastert no friend to farms
Chicago Tribune - 8/9/02 - Ex-prosecutor leads fight over outer
belt
Kane County Chronicle - 8/8/02 - McCoy, Klinkhamer butt heads over
beltway
Naperville Sun - 8/7/02 - Editorial: State shouldn't limit
land rights
Aurora Beacon-News - 8/7/02 - Hastert opponent hits road hard
Crain's Chicago Business - 8/5/02 - Hampshire
defies Kane County growth plan
Sun Newspapers - 8/4/02 - Prairie Parkway plan could rest with
state's next governor
Chicago Tribune - 8/2/02 - Beltway link to I-90 not out of the
question
Aurora Beacon-News - 8/2/02 - Next governor holds real Prairie
Parkway key
Aurora Beacon-News - 8/2/02 - Towns hold to stands on outer-belt
plans
Elburn Herald - 8/1/02 - IDOT approves Parkway corridor
Aurora Beacon-News - 8/1/02 - Little
change in outer-belt route
Aurora Beacon-News - 8/1/02 - Outer belt route greeted by threats of
lawsuits
Chicago Tribune - 8/1/02 - IDOT picks final route for highway
Daily Herald - 8/1/02 - State picks own route for expressway
Kane County Chroncle - 8/1/02 - Beltway route takes shape
Aurora Beacon-News - 7/31/02 - IDOT doesn't
have easy highway decision
Chicago Tribune - 7/30/02 - State set to select outer-belt corridor
Aurora Beacon-News - 7/30/02 - Outer belt decision coming Wednesday
Daily Herald - 7/30/02 - State set to announce route of
controversial outerbelt
Aurora Beacon-News - 7/19/02 - CATS meetings start future transit
planning
Aurora Beacon-News - 7/16/02 - Public meetings to
shape region's transportation
Chicago Tribune - 7/11/02 - Road to outer-belt plan will be a long
one
Elburn Herald - 6/20/02 - Area Democrat prepares to challenge Hastert
Aurora Beacon-News - 5/24/02 - Metro
planning leader criticizes outer belt
Chicago Tribune - 5/24/02 - DOT urged to hit brakes on outer
beltway plans
Eburn Herald - 5/16/02 - IDOT's beltway statement due in June
Aurora Beacon-News - 5/16/02 - NIU outer-belt study won't address
details
Aurora Beacon-News - 5/3/02 - Kendall push on to save farms
Elburn Herald - 5/2/02 - Parkway
feedback sought from community leaders
Aurora Beacon-News - 4/30/02 - NIU
outer-belt study starts with May meetings
Aurora Beacon-News - 4/23/02 - Highway program includes millions for
outer belt
Aurora Beacon-News - 4/8/02 - Farmland protection group devotes
manpower to Kendall
Aurora Beacon-News - 4/6/02 - IDOT finishes review of highway comments
Aurora Beacon-News - 3/25/02 - Hastert has
climbed to top rung
Aurora Beacon-News - 3/23/02 - Letter: "Kendall County Needs a New
Board"
Chicago Tribune - 3/22/02 - Farms and prison on endangered list
Aurora Beacon-News - 3/22/02 - Big Rock farms get historic designation
Chicago Tribune - 3/21/02 - Potholes aside, Chicago roads aren't
among nation's worst
Aurora Beacon-News - 3/20/02 - Kendall wants IDOT to listen to
residents
Aurora Beacon-News - 3/20/02 - Historic Big Rock farms enter Prairie
Parkway fight
Dekalb Chronicle - 3/17/02 - Prairie Parkway spurs debate
Aurora Beacon-News - 3/17/02- Builders weigh in on beltway
Daily Herald - 3/15/02 - Editorial:
Eastern beltway route problematic
Elburn Herald - 3/14/02 - Front and Center: Rep. Hastert on
"Prairie Parkway"
Daily Herald - 3/13/02 - Alternate outer-belt plan gets go-ahead
Aurora Beacon-News - 3/13/02 - McCoy's highway proposal gets OK
Chicago Tribune - 3/13/02 - Kane board adopts alternative plan for
outer beltway
Aurora Beacon-News - 3/12/02 - Village rejects outer belt plan
Chicago Tribune - 3/7/02 - Kane board member opposes McCoy's
outer-belt proposal
Aurora Beacon-News - 3/7/02 - Wyatt strays from board's support for
McCoy road plan
Aurora Beacon-News - 3/7/02 - Sugar Grove blasts McCoy plan
Daily Herald - 3/7/02 - County leaders back new outer-belt plan
Daily Herald - 3/7/02 - Outer belt substitute falling out of
favor too
Kane County Chronicle - 3/6/02 - Hastert, McCoy: There is no feud
Kane County Chronicle - 3/6/02 - Beltway compromise draws mixed
reviews
Chicago Tribune - 3/6/02 - McCoy seeks middle of road
Daily Herald - 3/6/02 - McCoy proposes different outer-belt
route
Aurora Beacon-News - 3/6/02 - Kendall Board 'on the fence' on outer
belt
Aurora Beacon-News - 3/6/02 - McCoy: 'Give a little' on highway route
Kane County Chronicle - 3/5/02 - McCoy to offer compromise on beltway
Aurora Beacon-News - 3/4/02 - Commentary: Choose eastern corridor for
outer belt
Chicago Tribune - 2/28/02 - Plan to
shift outer belt to east Kane falls flat
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/28/02 - McCoy to present own easterly route
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/28/02 - Towns disagree with Kane outerbelt route
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/26/02 - Opinion: Beltway is the right way:
forward-thinking and much-needed
Northwest Herald - 2/26/02 - Hastert calls for economic recovery,
roads
Daily Herald - 2/26/02 - House speaker downplays feud
Daily Herald - 2/26/02 - Kane County, state candidates face off
at forum
Northwest Herald - 2/25/02 - Road critics are driving in circles
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/25/02 - Letter: Thank you, Sen. Chris Lauzen!
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/23/02 - Letter: Just imagine The Fox...
Elgin Courier-News - 2/23/02 - Elgin to IDOT: Improve U.S. 20 (and
move beltway east)
Daily Herald - 2/23/02 - State warns Kane against moving
expressway route
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/22/02 - Hastert calls for common-sense corridor
Elgin Courier-News - 2/22/02 - Hastert: Outer belt ought to go to I-90
Chicago Tribune - 2/22/02 - Hastert emphasizes outer-belt support
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/21/02 - "Most people really don't want an outer
belt"
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/21/02 - Hastert set to comment on outer belt
Aurora Beacon News - 2/20/02 - County calls joint outer belt meeting
Aurora Beacon News - 2/20/02 - Kendall might eschew outer belt stand
Kane County Chronicle - 02/19/02 - Hastert: Establish beltway
centerline
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/15/02 - Common
Sense: "How much can we afford to lose?"
Daily Herald - 2/15/02 - Letter: A belief that most oppose outer
belt
Elburn Herald - 2/14/02 - Front and Center: Farmland Preservation
in Kane and neighboring counties
Chicago Tribune - 2/14/02 - Old hands seek new Kane posts
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/14/02 - Yorkville OKs study on future road
needs
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/14/02 - Eldamain Road study results weeks away
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/14/02 - Sandwich votes support for Prairie
Parkway plan
Daily Herald - 2/14/02 - Letter: McCoy puts needs of few before
the majority
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/12/02 - Outer-belt comments stacked up for IDOT
Kane County Chronicle - 2/11/02 - Farmers fear beltway will split land
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/10/02 - Editorial: Outer belt: Slow down, and
site it properly
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/9/02 - Plano mayor, AEDC endorse Prairie
Parkway
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/9/02 - Letter: Please stand against the outer
beltway!
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/8/02 - Kane Farm Bureau opposes outer belt
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/8/02 - Letter: Sen. Lauzen is the only
representative we have heard from
Elgin Courier-News - 2/8/02 - Kane farm group opposes IDOT's process
on belt
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/7/02 - Pair of candidates offer support for
outer-belt freeway
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/7/02 - Beltway plan can benefit affected
Chicago Tribune - 2/7/02 - 2 towns support outer-belt highway
Daily Herald - 2/7/02 - Letter: McCoy should keep asking road
questions
Daily Herald - 2/7/02 - Rt. 53 might be the odd project out
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/6/02 - Sugar Grove, Yorkville both favor
outer belt
Kane County Chronicle - 2/6/02 - Panel: Beltway will cause sprawl
Daily Herald - 2/5/02 - Elgin Chamber of Commerce puts support
behind highway
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/5/02 - Valley industry group supports outer
belt
Must Reading - Crain's Chicago Business - 2/4/02 - New roads or
no, sprawl takes root in Kendall farmland
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/4/02 - Freeway plan shares stage at Yorkville
Town Meeting
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/3/02 - Hastert's disappearing act
Aurora Beacon-News - 2/3/02 - Western Kane residents know how to
protest, win
Daily Herald - 2/1/02 - Letter: Kane 'sprawlway' will
accelerate the damage
Chicago Tribune - 2/1/02 - Outer-belt poll shows support
Aurora Beacon-News - 1/31/2002 - Snow
doesn't keep highway foes home
Aurora Beacon-News - 1/31/2002 - Chamber poll finds outer-belt support
Daily Herald - 1/31/2002 - Residents worry expressway would ruin
Kaneville's small-town feel
Kane County Chronicle - 1/31/2002 - Public
says no to road
Chicago Tribune - 1/29/02 - Outer belt impact studies sought
Aurora Beacon-News - 1/28/02 - IDOT will hear from outer-belt
landowners
Chicago Tribune - 1/28/02 - Road debate may unify region
Daily Herald - 1/28/02 - McCoy's populist stand may cost him,
county
Chicago Sun-Times - 1/27/02 - Rural dream could fall to highway plan
Aurora Beacon-News - 1/26/02 - Kane to study outerbelt impact
Kane County Chroncle - 1/26/02 - County to fund its own beltway study
Chicago Tribune - 1/25/02 - NIU to look at outer-belt growth issues
Kane County Chronicle - 1/25/02 - State OKs NIU study
Aurora Beacon-News - 1/25/02 - Village eyes access for commerce on
Route 47
Aurora Beacon-News - 1/25/02 - NIU commissioned to study need for
outer belt
Elburn Herald - 1/24/02 - Funding for Parkway surprises residents
Chicago Tribune - 1/22/02 - Cronin pushes roadwork curbs
Aurora Beacon-News - 1/22/02 - Lauzen latest to oppose freeway
Aurora Beacon-News - 1/22/02 - Kendall talks draw crowd: Two
gubernatorial hopefuls talk about outer belt
Chicago Tribune - 1/20/02 - Outer-belt plan raises rural fears
Aurora Beacon-News - 1/20/02 - Church leaders oppose outer belt
Kane County Chronicle - 1/20/02 - State uses law to keep road
corridors available
Kane County Chronicle - 1/18/02 - A $15 million green light for outer
beltway
Aurora Beacon-News - 1/18/02 - Town meeting will shape Yorkville
position on outer belt
Aurora Beacon-News - 1/18/02 - Outer-belt funds shock foes
Kane County Chronicle - 1/17/02 - IDOT memo irks county
Daily Herald - 1/17/02 - McCoy slams IDOT position on outerbelt
Daily Herald - 1/17/02 - McCoy says
Kane controlling growth
Aurora Beacon-News - 1/17/02 - Letters to the Editor
Aurora Beacon-News - 1/17/02 - Opinion: Parkway takes away property
rights
Aurora Beacon News - 1/17/02 - County chairmen look to future
Aurora Beacon News - 1/16/02 - Kendall approves Eldamain study
Aurora Beacon News - 1/16/02 - Landowners along outer-belt route look
into easements to save farms
Aurora Beacon News - 1/16/02 - Kane board: Move outer belt east
Aurora Beacon News - 1/12/02 - Kendall
farmers oppose Prairie Parkway
Aurora Beacon News - 1/12/02 - Plano economic leaders, Somonauk back
outer belt
Chicago Tribune - 1/11/02 - Beltway plan still long road, state
says
Aurora Beacon News - 1/11/02 - Outer belt rerouting proposed
Aurora Beacon News - 1/10/02 - Sugar Grove wants resident input on
outer belt
Elburn Herald - 1/10/02 - County says 'no thanks' to Prairie
Parkway
Daily Herald - 1/10/02 - Kaneville might be the fork in the
beltway
Elburn Herald - 1/10/02 - Front and Center Column
Aurora Beacon News - 1/9/02 - Kane board opposes outer belt
Aurora Beacon News - 1/9/02 - Kane marks spot for outer belt
Aurora Beacon News - 1/9/02 - Outer-belt forum aims to curtail
confusion
Daily Herald - 1/9/02 - Outer belt vote coming next month
Chicago Tribune - 1/9/02 - Kane board opposes beltway
Kane County Chronicle - 1/9/02 - County throws roadblock on beltway
Daily Herald - 1/5/02 - Kane leaders, IDOT to meet on expressway plan
Kane County Chronicle - 1/5/02 - Flags mark beltway path
Aurora Beacon News - 1/4/02 - Highway foes challenge IDOT
Aurora Beacon News - 1/4/02 - Hastert says outer-belt freeway idea is
not new
Elburn Herald - 1/3/02 - Big Rock residents speak against
Prairie Parkway
Daily Herald - 1/3/02 - McCoy seeking vote against expressway
Chicago Tribune - 1/3/02 - Kane board at odds on outer belt
Kane County Chronicle - 1/3/02 - County wants more beltway input
Aurora Beacon-News - 1/3/02 - Letter to Editor: Price of Hastert's
"Legacy"
Aurora Beacon-News - 1/3/02 - Kane County outer-belt resolution
debate goes on
Chicago Tribune - 12/29/01 - Township
opposes highway
Chicago Tribune - 12/29/01 - Voice of the People (Letter): County
Growth
Kane County Chronicle - 12/29/01 - Beltway divides politicians
Kane County Chronicle - 12/28/01 - Opposition builds against outer
beltway
Daily Herald - 12/28/01 - Expressway meets opposition
Aurora Beacon-News - 12/28/2001 - More time to talk on outer belt
Aurora Beacon-News - 12/28/2001 - Big Rock crowd wants to raise stop
sign to outer belt
Chicago Tribune - December 27, 2001 - Outer-belt
study gets more time
Daily Herald - December 27, 2001 - Public comment deadline for new
freeway expanded
Aurora Beacon-News - December 26, 2001 - Deputy faces
challenge as first Big Rock president
Chicago Tribune - December 25, 2001 - Highway
foes form coalition
Aurora Beacon-News - December 22, 2001 - Yorkville leans toward backing outer
belt
Aurora Beacon-News - December 21, 2001 - Citizens
form group to fight parkway
Elburn Herald - December 20, 2001 - Debate on
I-80, 88 link 'too short'
Elburn Herald - December 20, 2001 - Beltway
offers three different routes
Chicago Tribune - December 19, 2001 - Outer-belt
plan comment period likely to grow
Aurora Beacon-News - December 19, 2001 - Kane looking
to 2030 in revising 2020 plan
Aurora Beacon-News - December 16, 2001 - Yorkville
economic leaders back outer belt
Aurora Beacon-News - December 15, 2001
- Northern
outer belt leg cut off
Chicago Tribune - December 14, 2001 - Commentary:
Hastert Highway: Favorite son settles a classic dispute
Aurora Beacon-News - December 13, 2001 - State
likely to make only minor changes in outer-belt proposal
Aurora Beacon-News - December 13, 2001 - Church: Too
many links to outer belt
Aurora Beacon-News - December 13, 2001 - Kaneland
concerned about north-south highway plan
Aurora Beacon-News - Decmeber 13, 2001 - Outer belt
may cause Eldamain reconsideration
Elburn Herald - December 13, 2001 - Proposed
highway aggravates residents
Chicago Tribune - December 13, 2001 - Kane's
outer-belt fears ease a bit
Aurora Beacon-News - December 12, 2001 - Highway
hearing draws hundreds
DeKalb Chronicle - December 12, 2001 - Hearing on
Prairie Parkway draws hundreds of curious residents
Daily Herald - December 12, 2001 - Western expressway still in flux
Daily Herald - December 12, 2001 - Letter: Just Say 'No' to Kane Version
of Beltway
Chicago Tribune - December 12, 2001 - Kane dodges
outer-belt issue
Kane County Chronicle - December 12, 2001 - Critics
want to put brakes on outer beltway
Aurora Beacon-News - December 10, 2001 - Single
hearing to gather views about freeway
Aurora Beacon-News - December 9, 2001 - Editorial:
Consider entire outerbelt, not its two parts
Chicago Tribune - December 9, 2001 - Kane
encounters renewed pressure over `outer belt'
Daily Herald - December 9, 2001 - Editorial: Kane beltway opposition
ill-conceived
Aurora Beacon-News - December 8, 2001 - Aurora
chamber supports Outer Belt
Daily Herald - December 6, 2001 - McCoy wants to stop outer expressway
Chicago Tribune - December 6, 2001 - Kane panel
opposes linking Interstates
Aurora Beacon-News - December 6, 2001 - Kane County
to oppose Outer Belt Freeway
Chicago Tribune - November 29, 2001 - Forest
leader hits west highway
Chicago Tribune - November 28, 2001 - State
narrows path for west road as Kane officials fret
Dekalb Daily Chronicle - November 25, 2001 - Hearing Set for
Prairie Parkway
Aurora Beacon-News - November 21, 2001 - State to ask
for input on beltway route
Aurora Beacon-News - August 28, 2001 - Hastert
pushes for north-south highway
Joliet Herald-News - July 25, 2001 - Hastert
pressing for highway to connect I-80, I-90
Chicago Tribune - 1/21/03 - Foes of Illinois 53
plan reload
Aurora Beacon-News - 3/25/02 - With election over, race is on to boost tolls
Chicago Tribune - 2/26/02 - Extension
of I-355 is backed by U.S.