Published on July 10, 2025 11:23 am
Last Updated on July 10, 2025 11:23 am
Phase One of the Fayette Avenue reconstruction project is in the home stretch.
Phase Two is not getting out of the starting gate quite as quickly as far as construction, but work is going on behind the scenes.
Tim Hemmen from the Illinois Department of Transportation said that the work on Henrietta Street between Fayette and Jefferson Avenues will change this Saturday on the median work. South of Fayette, work is wrapping up between Fayette and Grove Avenues at the intersections.
Hemmen said striping will hopefully begin around the first of August. He is hopeful that Phase One will be completed by the end of August.
As far as Phase Two, Greg Jamerson of IDOT said that construction plans on the project should be completed on time. Jamerson said that land acquisition will be completed “hopefully this year.”
That means that taking down buildings and relocating utilities will take place in 2026.
Jamerson now feels the letting of the construction portion of the work will be in June or September of 2026.
Phase Two will now involve reconstruction of Fayette, east from the underpass, with two lanes of travel in each direction and a center turn lane, returning to three lanes at Cruiser’s. Jamerson said that Fayette will be resurfaced from Cruiser’s to Salt Creek to complete the project.
