Illinois Tollway Closing Des Plaines Oasis Next Year
By Chuck Sudo in News on Sep 26, 2013 10:00PM
Say goodbye to the Des Plaines Oasis. The Illinois Tollway announced Thursday the 54-year-old stopping point along the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway will be razed sometime next year in order to widen the toll road.
The Daily Herald reports the Tollway will pay leaseholder SFI $9.3 million to demolish the pavilion spanning the tollway and add a fourth lane to be built in each direction. The Daily Herald reported in 2010 the oasis was in the way of a proposed connector bridge linking I-90 with the western bypass segment of the Elgin O'Hare Expressway.
Gas stations and 7-Eleven stores located adjacent to the oasis would remain. The demolition is expected to begin in April and would leave the Belvidere oasis as the only one remaining on the Jane Addams Tollway. That's a long way to travel to get an Auntie Anne's fix on the way to Rockford.