No more than 5 appointed members may be of the same political party as the governor. The remaining 9 members are named by the governor. The Governor of Illinois and the head of the Illinois Department of Transportation serve as ex officio members of the Tollway Board. The Tollway's board of directors has eleven members. It is the only road-related authority with rail construction powers in the United States. Legislation passed in 2013 gives the authority the power to build high-speed rail lines if there is funding made available, similar to the authority of other state high-speed rail authorities. The projects in Move Illinois include reconstructing and widening I-90 between Rockford and the Kennedy Expressway as well as I-294 between Balmoral Ave and 95th Street new projects include constructing the Elgin-O'Hare Western Access project as well as an interchange between I-294 and I-57 (previously, the Interstates crossed, but had no direct connection). The program is expected to create 120,000 jobs and add $21 billion to the economy. Approved by ISTHA in 2011, the $14 billion capital program will address the remaining needs of tollway system not addressed by the Congestion Relief Program, as well as construct several new projects.
The Congestion Relief Program was followed by another 15 year capital program named Move Illinois. These improvements were financed by long-term revenue bonds that require the system to remain as toll roads until the bonds are repaid in 2034. The project also includes adding an interchange between the Tri-State Tollway and I-57. I-355 was extended south of I-55 to connect to I-80 in New Lenox, a distance of 12.5 miles (20.1 km), in order to serve fast-growing areas of Will County. The plan also included rebuilding and widening many of the toll roads, including most of the original portion of I-88 and the northern and southern sections of I-294. The toll plazas were relocated to the side of the road to handle vehicles without transponders.
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Under the program, the main toll plazas were rebuilt to have open road tolling, so that drivers with transponders would drive at normal speeds under toll collecting equipment instead of stopping to pay tolls. It adopted a $6.3 billion Congestion Relief Program. In 2004, ISTHA made a strategic decision to expand and improve the tollway system instead of converting the roads to freeways. In 2009-2010, the website underwent a $4.4 million e-commerce overhaul. The website includes online ordering of I-Pass transponders and managing I-Pass accounts. The Illinois Tollway website officially launched on September 1, 1997. Construction of that I-355 extension began after years of delays and environmental litigation. Ultimately, the lawsuit was settled, and I-355 was opened in 1989 as a tollway between Army Trail Road and I-55 near Bollingbrook. They also promised to prevent the tollway authority from obtaining environmental approval from federal officials.
Officials at the Morton Arboretum, one of the nation's premier woodland research centers, promptly filed a federal lawsuit to block construction of the tollway. In June 1984, Republican minority leader of the Illinois House of Representatives, James "Pate" Philip, helped push through legislation authorizing the construction of the North–South Tollway, then referred to as simply the DuPage Tollway. In 2004, ISTHA voted to rename this route the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway. The route was later given the I-88 designation in order to obtain a higher speed limit. In the 1970s, the East–West Tollway was extended west from Sugar Grove to Dixon with a freeway continuing to the Quad Cities. Under this Act, promulgated April 1, 1968, ISTHA assumed the assets and obligations of the Illinois State Toll Highway Commission. The Toll Highway Act, in its present form, dates from 1967, but has been amended since. The first segment to open was the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway between Devon Avenue and Elgin on Augat 3 p.m. These first three toll highways are the present day Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90/I-39/US 51), the Tri-State Tollway (I-94/I-294) and the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway (I-88, between Hillside and Sugar Grove). The first three toll highways in the Chicago area were all planned, constructed, and finally opened in 1958 under the authority of this Commission. After construction of the first toll highways in Illinois was delayed by World War II, the Illinois State Toll Highway Commission was established in 1953. The original Toll Highway Authority was established in 1941.
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