[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

But north and south of that section, I-294 will to go back down to four lanes, said Lois Mejdrich, who lives on Highland Road.

Actually, the Tollway is being widened to 10 lanes all the way from O'Hare down to 95th street. But 2 extra lanes will be added to the section being discussed on top of that.

[RedWing9]

They need to create a double deck freeway (6 lanes up top), the top one dumping out at I-80 in the South and I-94 in the north, with only three two-lane exits I-55, I-88, and O’Hare. Entrance ramps only twice as often. Emergency vehicles could use entrance ramps to exit.

We are after all essentially a earthquake free zone so the risk of collapse is minimal.