Route 120 Bypass Up For Discussion As IDOT Considers Options To Ease Traffic Congestion

LAKE COUNTY, IL — State and local officials have spent decades trying to decide how to best ease traffic congestion for a portion of Route 120 fraught with busy rail crossings and areas that shift between two and four lanes.

And now, as part of a Illinois Department of Transportation Route 120 Planning and Environmental Linkages study, discussions have again begun on whether a bypass is the best idea and worth the more than $2 billion that officials say it would take to finance it, according to media reports. Officials have been looking for solutions to traffic woes that plague many who travel the stretch of 120 from Almond Road near Grayslake to Route 60 in Volo.

“The idea of a Route 120 bypass has been studied for many years and consensus has remained out of reach,” Grayslake Mayor Elizabeth Davies told the Daily Herald. “That is largely because the impacts to neighborhoods, sensitive wetlands and existing development are significant, while the costs are extraordinarily high.”

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