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Main: Bundling Illinois’ bridges, building Illinois’ success
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Illinois farmers have lengthy benefited from our sturdy transportation community. This unique community of highways, railways and waterways exists nowhere else on this planet and permits Illinois merchandise a aggressive financial benefit within the world market.
Rural bridges are one of many foundations of this community. This crucial infrastructure permits farmers entry from the sphere to their vacation spot level for supply.
Nevertheless, usually a bridge’s basis is beneath stress due to deferred upkeep and poor situation. Latest estimates present that roughly 8.5% of Illinois bridges have parts which are rated poor or worse.
The Illinois restore backlog contains 2,273 bridges recognized as structurally poor and a further 1,191 bridges with posted restrictions on measurement and weight of autos that may use them.
The estimated value to restore these bridges is $4.8 billion. This value is regularly rising, and the necessity for repairs has turn out to be crucial.
| Danger to ag manufacturing from rural bridges | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Soybean Manufacturing | Structurally Out of date | Structurally Poor | |||
| McLean | 20,182,000 | 43 | 7% | 19 | 3% |
| Champaign | 19,515,000 | 26 | 4% | 45 | 6% |
| Livingston | 18,517,000 | 22 | 4% | 49 | 9% |
| Iroquois | 16,416,000 | 29 | 5% | 81 | 14% |
| Vermilion | 14,056,000 | 31 | 6% | 34 | 7% |
| LaSalle | 13,315,000 | 41 | 8% | 55 | 10% |
| Sangamon | 12,883,000 | 24 | 5% | 26 | 6% |
| Christian | 12,417,000 | 32 | 10% | 57 | 18% |
| Shelby | 11,843,000 | 44 | 13% | 32 | 9% |
| Henry | 11,508,000 | 27 | 8% | 21 | 6% |
| Edgar | 10,878,000 | 8 | 3% | 10 | 4% |
| Bureau | 10,830,000 | 42 | 11% | 63 | 17% |
| Hancock | 10,480,000 | 42 | 14% | 60 | 20% |
The poor situation of those rural bridges impacts Illinois farmers straight by elevated prices to take merchandise to market and a discount within the resiliency of our transportation community, each of which erode our world aggressive benefit.
One thing should be accomplished to proceed to permit Illinois farmers to excel. We now have the product; the best way of taking it to the top vacation spot is simply as very important.
Not too long ago, the state and federal funds have turn out to be accessible to deal with these transportation community resiliency points together with the REBUILD Illinois and federal infrastructure invoice.
There’s a confirmed alternative to streamline and speed up implementing the restore and rehabilitation of our rural bridges by bundling the initiatives and utilizing economies of scale by issuing a single contract for the substitute, rehabilitation, or restore of a number of bridges to scale back prices.
The Illinois Soybean Affiliation checkoff program has been engaged in a public outreach and training program directed at transportation stakeholders and native choice makers on the deserves of bridge bundling.
We now have convened a sequence of six academic webinars and a number of one-on-one interviews with neighboring transportation businesses and contractors which have applied profitable bridge bundling packages to know how a program in Illinois might work.
Momentum for this revolutionary resolution is constructing throughout Illinois as agricultural teams and native transportation officers actively talk about how the state might use bridge bundling to deal with issues with rural bridges.
Not too long ago, the Illinois Division of Transportation introduced that it’s growing a pilot program that can use bridge bundling for state initiatives with the primary contracts being put out for bid within the spring of 2022.
Chicago Metropolitan Space Planning introduced a program for northeast Illinois bridges, and native leaders in Boone and McHenry counties are growing a bridge bundling program for his or her counties.
The ISA checkoff program is constant our work. We analyzed the stock of bridges that wanted repairs and now perceive that 68% of all bridges and 95% of bridges which are rated as honest or poor in Illinois are owned or maintained on the municipal or county degree.
You’ll be able to comply with our efforts at www.ilsoy.org/bridge-bundling, and get in touch with us right this moment to tell us a few rural bridge in your space.
As a result of on the ISA we perceive that rising a superior product isn’t sufficient. We’ve additionally bought to ship it to the world effectively, safely and reliably.
Todd Essential is the Illinois Soybean Affiliation director of market growth.
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Pennsylvania, Minnesota Blue, California Blue, Illinois top men’s Greco-Roman pools at AFSW Junior National Duals
Air Force Special Warfare Junior National Duals | June 19-22, Tulsa, Okla.
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Men’s Greco-Roman Gold/Silver Bracket
Pool A
Pennsylvania
Iowa
Illinois
Oklahoma Blue
Pool B
Minnesota Blue
Idaho
California Blue
Colorado
Men’s Greco-Roman Results
Pool A
1st Place – Pennsylvania
2nd Place – Idaho
3rd Place – Texas Blue
4th Place – Nebraska
5th Place – Oklahoma Red
6th Place – California Red
7th Place – Louisiana Blue
8th Place – Arkansas Blue
1st Place Match – Pennsylvania defeated Idaho, 38-28
3rd Place Match – Texas Blue defeated Nebraska, 37-32
5th Place Match – Oklahoma Red defeated California Red, 36-32
7th Place Match – Louisiana Blue defeated Arkansas Blue, 34-29
Pool B
1st Place – Minnesota Blue
2nd Place – Iowa
3rd Place – Ohio Red
4th Place – Indiana
5th Place – Oregon
6th Place – North Dakota
7th Place – Alabama
8th Place – Georgia
1st Place Match – Minnesota Blue defeated Iowa, 39-25
3rd Place Match – Ohio Red defeated Indiana, 51-14
5th Place Match – Oregon defeated North Dakota, 46-24
7th Place Match – Alabama defeated Georgia, 56-12
Pool C
1st Place – California Blue
2nd Place – Oklahoma Blue
3rd Place – Michigan
4th Place – Kansas Blue
5th Place – Wisconsin
6th Place – Florida
7th Place – Louisiana Red
8th Place – Texas Red
1st Place Match – California Blue defeated Oklahoma Blue, 47-18
2nd Place Match – Oklahoma Blue defeated Michigan, 44-25
3rd Place Match – Michigan defeated Kansas Blue, 43-21
5th Place Match – Wisconsin defeated Florida, 49-20
7th Place Match – Louisiana Red defeated Texas Red, 38-25
Pool D
1st Place – Illinois
2nd Place – Colorado
3rd Place – Washington
4th Place – Minnesota Red
5th Place – Utah
6th Place – Virginia Blue
7th Place – Ohio Blue
8th Place – Tennessee
1st Place Match – Illinois defeated Colorado, 46-18
2nd Place Match – Colorado defeated Washington, 38-29
3rd Place Match – Washington defeated Minnesota Red, 41-24
5th Place Match – Utah defeated Virginia Blue, 36-32
7th Place Match – Ohio Blue defeated Tennessee, 43-21
CHICAGO, Ill. (WIFR) – In recent years, Illinois has witnessed an increase in college tuition pricing. The surge in expenses is placing an enormous financial burden on students, often deterring them from pursuing higher education.
In an attempt to combat this statistic, Generations College in Chicago is offering an Illinois residency grant for students who qualify.
Committing to making themselves more affordable, the grant would subsidize tuition balances up to $3,000 per semester.
The idea behind the grant is to help individuals who would otherwise not attend college, allowing them to complete their first two years and obtain their associate’s degree.
To see other scholarships available at Generations College, click here.
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‘The kids chose a great playground’: Geometric climbing structure coming to Rolling Meadows park
Quito, a 15-foot high play structure manufactured by Pennsylvania-based Playworld, will be installed in July at Countryside Park in Rolling Meadows.
Courtesy of Rolling Meadows Park District
A Rolling Meadows park is set to become the first in Illinois to feature a geometric net climber on its playground, officials said.
The unique play structure is called Quito, a 15-foot high playhouse that allows kids “to climb, balance, and teeter their way in, over, and through,” according to Playworld, the commercial playground equipment manufacturer.
The structure will be installed in July, along with friendship swings for families and tire swing-style equipment for multiple users, at Countryside Park, 4360 Euclid Ave.
Children selected the new playground out of three proposals brought by vendors to a community input meeting in February.
“The kids chose a great playground,” said Superintendent of Parks Brian McKenna. “Out of the choices, this would have been the one I would have picked.”
The park district is paying Westchester-based sales agency Imagine Nation $165,000 for the new playground equipment, but officials expect to save about $65,000 by doing the installation in-house, McKenna said.
Park districts commonly donate old playgrounds around the world, but officials said the old Countryside Park playground, at 20 years old, is too outdated to be reused or donated.
Quito is named after the capital city of Ecuador, not only the highest capital in the world, but the one closest to the equator. The webbed play structure has bells at the top and ground levels, triangle windows and a triangle roof.
McKenna said the structure promotes a creative play experience as children attempt various ways to climb through the web.
“Children can climb on it differently each time they use it,” McKenna said. “With the slide, you go up the steps, sit on the slide and slide down. That experience isn’t going to change much. When you have a large climbing structure like Quito, children are offered a range of options for navigating and traversing the framework from various angles.”
The first Quito climber was installed in 2022 at a park in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where Playworld is headquartered.
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