Center Street, Peterson Road lead list of county road projects

Resurfacing of Center Street in Grayslake and the second stage of Peterson Road reconstruction are slated to move forward in the next construction season after the Lake County Board approved funding for the projects last week.

Center Street, a 1.4-mile stretch between Routes 45 and 83, part of which runs past the former Lake County Fairgrounds, will be resurfaced with paved shoulders in areas without curb and gutter. With the $2.23 million appropriation, approved by the board at its Nov. 11 meeting, the project is now cleared to head out for bids.

Grayslake is also eyeing Center Street for improvements east of the villages business district, with a resurfacing project from Route 83 to the Canadian National Railway tracks now in the design phase.

The board also approved a total of $22.8 million in appropriations including $16.2 million from the countys quarter-percent sales tax for transportation improvements for the ongoing widening of Peterson Road near Libertyville and Grayslake.

Work began earlier this year on a widening of Peterson from Route 45 to a point just west of Route 83, a project that includes intersection improvements at not only Route 83 but Midlothian Road. The funds approved last week are projected to cover the reconstruction and widening of Peterson from Route 83 to Allegheny Road.

The scope of that second phase also includes installation of a bike path on the north side of Peterson and resurfacing of nearly the entire length of Allegheny a 2.2 mile stretch from Peterson north to Hojem Lane, near Belvidere Road. As with the Center Street project, the Peterson project is now set to take bids.

In other transportation business at its Nov. 11 meeting, the board approved the following measures:

Appropriation of $1.8 million for the reconstruction and widening of Petite Lake Road from Fairfield Road to Route 59 near Lake Villa.

Appropriation of $295,000 in county transportation sales-tax funds to improve Metras Grayslake North Central station platform in preparation for the Washington Street underpass project just to the south. That overall $35 million project, which includes widening of Washington to four lanes west of Lake Street, is scheduled to start next spring and continue for two full construction seasons.

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Center Street, Peterson Road lead list of county road projects