Repair dates and closing of 123rd Street are in limbo

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Sometime in the future, a part of 123^rd Street will have to be shut down in Palos Park for six months.

When?

That’s not yet known.

What is known is that on Jan. 27 the village council approved a proposal from Westchester-based Hancock Engineering for $30,180 to complete two water main allocations as a part of the Illinois Department of Transportation Mill Creek Culvert Project.

Where?

It will go from La Grange Road to possibly Elm Street.

Mayor Nicole Milovich-Walters said it’s an inconvenience but added to residents “If you live right there, you will be able to get in and out, for sure.”

Commissioner Dan Polk said he is sorry the information is “as nebulous as it is.”

“We know that 123^rd has to close,” Polk said. “It will be closed for six months, from what we are told. What we don’t know is when it’s going to happen.

“What we’re being told is that it is contingent on when the 131^st Street project is finished. What ‘finished’ means seems to be subject to some sort of debate.”

Polk said that date has not been finalized, either.
“The bottom line is the IDOT plan to have 123^rd and 131^st closed at the same time,” he said. “So, we’re waiting to hear when 131^st might be reopened or at least when it gets to the point where IDOT is considering moving on with their closure of 123^rd.”

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