Bill Text: IL HR0016 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Calls on the U.S. Congress to authorize a policy change to allow existing interstates built with federal funding to become state tollways, enabling Illinois to convert the Dan Ryan Expressway I-57 into a toll road for the safety of its citizens.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-29 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HR0016 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HR0016-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, According to a report by NBC 5 Chicago, as of | ||||||
3 | September 30, 2021, a total of 185 expressway shootings | ||||||
4 | happened in the Chicago region, more than double the 83 the | ||||||
5 | area had seen by the same date the previous year, which is a | ||||||
6 | 45% increase over the 128 shootings the region experienced in | ||||||
7 | all of 2020; and
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8 | WHEREAS, By September 30, 2021, at least 85 people have | ||||||
9 | been wounded in expressway shootings, and 16 have been killed; | ||||||
10 | and
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11 | WHEREAS, According to the Illinois State Police, a very | ||||||
12 | small percentage of expressway shootings in the Chicago area | ||||||
13 | are cases of road rage;
the shootings are opportunistic, where | ||||||
14 | somebody has a problem with somebody else and they cross paths | ||||||
15 | on the interstate; and
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16 | WHEREAS, One suggestion that has been put forth to deter | ||||||
17 | crime on the Chicago expressways is to convert expressways | ||||||
18 | into toll roads, but that idea may be illegal; the 1956 | ||||||
19 | Interstate Highway Act generally bans tolling on interstates; | ||||||
20 | and
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21 | WHEREAS, Throughout the years, Congress has authorized |
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1 | pilot programs under which states can start collecting tolls | ||||||
2 | on existing interstates to fund improvements on those roads, | ||||||
3 | but only for the purpose of road improvements; and
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4 | WHEREAS, The Dan Ryan Expressway I-57 is a high traffic | ||||||
5 | expressway where numerous shootings have occurred, and a state | ||||||
6 | tollway system could serve to reduce violence by making it | ||||||
7 | more difficult for these opportunistic shootings to take | ||||||
8 | place; therefore, be it
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9 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
10 | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
11 | we call on the U.S. Congress to authorize a policy change to | ||||||
12 | allow existing interstates built with federal funding to | ||||||
13 | become state tollways, enabling Illinois to convert the Dan | ||||||
14 | Ryan Expressway I-57 into a toll road for the safety of its | ||||||
15 | citizens; and be it further
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16 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
17 | delivered to the President of the United States, the U.S. | ||||||
18 | Senate Majority Leader, the U.S. Senate Minority Leader, the | ||||||
19 | U.S. Speaker of the House, the U.S. House of Representatives | ||||||
20 | Minority Leader, and all members of the Illinois Congressional | ||||||
21 | Delegation.
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