City Hall Parking Lot Closed For Another Joliet Street Repair Project

JOLIET— If you were planning to attend Tuesday night's Joliet City Council meeting to air your concerns about city manager Beth Beatty's proposal of raising your property taxes and increasing your fuel taxes in the 2025 city budget, you better find somewhere else to park.

That's because the city of Joliet's latest downtown street repair project is now taking place on the backside of City Hall. The city of Joliet's free public parking lot, the one facing the retaining wall along the Des Plaines River canal, is off-limits to the public for who knows how long.

On Tuesday afternoon, Joliet Patch found two empty pieces of construction equipment owned by Austin Tyler Construction.

Austin Tyler is the same company that Joliet hired earlier this year for the $20 million water main and street improvement project taking place along North Chicago Street near the Rialto, a project that also includes the creation of a new downtown City Square.

In regard to the never-ending street repairs and road closed signs posted all across the city of Joliet, I published a column last month in the Joliet Patch headlined, Joliet Residents Must Remain Miserable: Ferak Column.

Now that misery has spread to the street between the Joliet police station and City Hall — as evidenced by more empty Austin Tyler Construction equipment.