{"id":269203,"date":"2025-10-01T12:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269203\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:55:14","slug":"locals-lanes-to-reopen-on-outbound-kennedy-expressway-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269203\/","title":{"rendered":"Locals lanes to reopen on outbound Kennedy Expressway this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/keyart-chicago-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Chicago<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Department of Transportation has some good news for commuters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All local lanes on the outbound Kennedy Expressway will fully reopen by Sunday morning. As IDOT said, &#8220;The wait is almost over, Chicago&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lanes are expected to reopen overnight Saturday into Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The outbound section of the expressway between Diversey and Belmont avenues reopened Wednesday morning, according to IDOT.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The express lanes will remain closed for a few more weeks. The Division Street exit ramp will also remain closed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Great news coming from IDOT about the Kennedy project. By 10 am Sunday, all OB local lanes will be open &amp; only the Division exit ramp will be closed! The express remain locked OB, w\/no mid-ramp access for a few more weeks. Follow the progress at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vhbRxCdj7J\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/vhbRxCdj7J<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VmXgfiV3kv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/VmXgfiV3kv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kris Habermehl (@KrisHabermehl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KrisHabermehl\/status\/1973330967281672425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The $1.2 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/phase-3-kennedy-expressway-work-drivers-frustrated\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Kennedy Expressway project<\/a> originally was expected to be finished in September, but IDOT said the work was accelerated to minimize traffic impacts during the ongoing repairs to the northwest-bound lanes of the Kennedy Expressway itself. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/elyssa-kaufman\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elyssa  Kaufman<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Elyssa is a digital news producer for CBS Chicago. She covers breaking news and manages the station&#8217;s social media presence.<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Chicago Live The Illinois Department of Transportation has some good news for commuters.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":269204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,43189,314],"class_list":{"0":"post-269203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-kennedy-expressway","12":"tag-traffic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}