{"id":2570,"date":"2026-02-12T11:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/2570\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T11:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:48:32","slug":"natural-gas-leak-shuts-down-geneva-state-street-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/2570\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural gas leak shuts down Geneva State Street \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">All lanes of State Street-Illinois Route 38 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/geneva\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/geneva\/\">Geneva<\/a> were closed Monday following a contractor inadvertently striking a natural gas line near Kane Street, officials announced in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Contractors have been working along East State Street since last summer to relocate underground utilities for the upcoming highway reconstruction project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">The road closure was expected to remain for several hours until the gas line could be repaired. The gas leak was reported at 10:40 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">The Geneva Police Department is rerouting eastbound State Street motorists to Route 25, and westbound drivers are being diverted onto East Side Drive. People should avoid the area, which is expected to have traffic congestion, the release stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">The city will provide updates when more information is available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All lanes of State Street-Illinois Route 38 in Geneva were closed Monday following a contractor inadvertently striking a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1979,65,898,1980,899],"class_list":{"0":"post-2570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-geneva","10":"tag-kane-county","11":"tag-kane-county-front-headlines","12":"tag-local-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}