Village: Lily Cache Construction Nearly Complete

Bolingbrook residents have become accustom to road construction on Lily Cache Lane. 

Later this month, that reality will be a thing of the past.

Director of Public Works Mike Drey said the fourth and final phase of the Lily Cache construction project should be completed in about three weeks—maybe less.

The project has been nearly seven years in the making and has already revamped Lily Cache Lane into a four-lane road from Route 53 to Creekside Drive.

Now, crews are putting the final touches on the landscaped median and installing pedestrian signals. All that's left to complete the project will be to surface and stripe the portion between Creekside and Veterans Parkway, Drey said. 

The fourth phase cost roughly $7 million, $4.8 million of which was picked up by the village while $2.2 million came from federal funds. The project, overall, cost $15.4 million, of which the village paid for $8.7 million.

The benefits of completing construction on Lily Cache are two-fold, Drey said. Not only will the completed road ease congestion for the 12,000 drivers who travel Lily Cache every day, but the revamped road also will ease congestion on Bolingbrook's busiest street—Boughton Road—Drey said.

And that will be essential later this year, as construction crews begin work on two of Bolingbrook's most trafficked roads.

The village announced this week that repairs to the Weber Road bridge over the East Branch of the DuPage River, which is about a half mile north of the Weber and Boughton intersection, will likely start in September.

Crews will work on the bridge a half at a time, meaning Weber will be reduced to one-lane traffic each way for several months. 

Bolingbrook Mayor Roger Claar said residents should expect delays until the project is complete.

Also in September, the Illinois Department of Transportation is expected to bid out the Boughton Road construction project contracts.

The village, in February, announced it would .

Drey said both of the projects should be completed by the end of the year.