'Less Intrusive' Downtown Western Springs Project

WESTERN SPRINGS, IL – Western Springs plans another street project downtown, but this one will be "far less intrusive" than last year's, an official said this week.

According to a memo, the village plans to resurface four blocks of Burlington Avenue from Central Avenue to Wolf Road. Last year, improvements were made to half of that section.

"We are repaving the whole street, so there will be a couple of days when things will be busy," Jefferey Koza, the village engineer, told the Village Board on Monday.

But he said this wasn't like the last project, where the street was shut down for four or five weeks, he said.

"It will be far less intrusive than last fall," Koza said.

The village plans to follow last year's practice of starting early in the morning when downtown has fewer commuters and open businesses.

Koza said the village hasn't nailed down a schedule because the contractor, Schaumburg-based A Lamp Contractors, is still trying to obtain railroad right-of-entry permits.

Once the timing is set, the village plans to send notices to affected businesses, Koza said.