The Southern Illinoisan (newspaper) Editors met with the Governor (or maybe his Staffers?) while he came to Carterville and Marion on his Statewide “Victory” tour after signing the bills...Nothing printed about Road projects in Southern IL nor in their weekly Radio show where they talked about Regional impacts (the biggest being the Walkers Bluff casino in Carterville authorization in the Gaming expansion bill; next being Capital Bill money for some projects on SIU-Carbondale’s campus).
Funding for studies to develop a Port @ Cairo were mentioned in the overall budget, separate from the Capital bill
Nothing on the Shawnee Expressway/Parkway, Murphysboro-Columbia Expressway (roughly IL 127 upgrade), heck not even I-57 widening from Johnston City north to Mt Vernon, tho I believe it is currently being expanded to 6 lanes from Johnston City to about West Frankfort or so.
Selfishly I was hoping for funding to “finish” 6 laning IL 13 between Carbondale and Marion - probably the hardest/most expensive part is left - wider bridges where the roadway crosses Crab Orchard Lake. The section leaving Carbondale to the east, approaching the Williamson County Line and Crab Orchard Lake is under construction now for 6 lane upgrade
I would assume IDOT would be releasing a Project List, eventually. Is the Bill available to read on the Legislature’s website?
Peoria event has 24 being made 4 lanes between Banner and Kingston mines. Basically Peoria to Canton. No mention of 336 or 29. Those are stale EISs and I assume gone.
If 336 between Macomb and Peoria is not built, it should be Decommissioned, since the current signed route is a 100% duplexed with IL 110. Of course, there is the unsigned part of IL 336 - its exit off of I-474 that is signed as a long exit ramp for IL 116
And if US 24 is getting a 4 lane upgrade, Peoria to Banner, I don’t see much IL 336 activity coming. To get 4 lanes to Canton, would need to upgrade IL 9 from Banner to Canton, too