The work is part of the mayor’s initiative to repave at least 300 miles of Chicago roads on an annual basis. NBC Chicago’s Regina Waldroup reports.
More than 60 miles of Chicago roadways have been identified as the first to be repaved this year, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Department of Transportation announced Monday.
When spring weather permits, work will begin on the following streets:
115th Street, from Vincennes Avenue to State Street (2.3 miles)
Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, from Cermak Road to 37th Street (2 miles)
Wentworth Avenue, from Pershing Road to the Stevenson Expressway (1.6 miles)
Cicero Avenue, from Division Street to the Eisenhower Expressway (2.1 miles)
Irving Park Road, from Cumberland Avenue to Forest Preserve Avenue (1.3 miles)
Douglas Boulevard, from Independence Boulevard to Sacramento Drive (1 mile)
Lake Shore Drive, from North to Grand Avenues (1.5 miles)
The work is part of the mayor's initiative to repave at least 300 miles of Chicago roads on an annual basis. More than 1,000 miles of streets have been repaved since 2011, the mayor's office said.
"We are repaving more roads throughout Chicago than ever before, investing in every neighborhood block by block, street by street, and community by community," Emanuel said in a statement.
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In this Tuesday, June 10, 2014, photo, mosaic artist Jim Bachor scrapes cement off a finished art piece on a street in Chicago. At the time Bachor had filled seven potholes around the city, marking each one with a mosaic piece.
In this Tuesday, June 10, 2014, photo, mosaic artist Jim Bachor scrapes away cement to show a finished art piece in a filled pothole on a street in Chicago.
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Mosaic artist Jim Bachor scrapes cement off a finished art piece while Antonina Mally watches on a street in Chcaigo.
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Jim Bachor, applies a mosaic art piece onto a newly filled pothole.
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In this Tuesday, June 10, 2014, photo, mosaic artist Jim Bachor, poses next to his finished public art project on a street near downtown Chicago.
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In this Monday, June 9, 2014, photo, mosaic artist Jim Bachor carefully removes cheese cloth from a finished art piece that he installed to cover a pothole on a street in Chicago.
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In this Tuesday June 10, 2014, photo, mosaic artist Jim Bachor looks at his latest finished art project on a street near downtown Chicago.
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In this Monday, June 9, 2014, photo, Chicago mosaic artist Jim Bachor works in his basement placing tiles on his next mosaic art piece that reads "POTHOLES."
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In this Monday, June 9, 2014, photo, Chicago mosaic artist Jim Bachor works in his basement placing tiles on his next mosaic art piece that reads "POTHOLES."
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In this Monday, June 9, 2014, photo, Chicago mosaic artist Jim Bachor, looks over a checklist in his basement to make sure he has all the material he needs to complete a pothole art project.
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In this Monday, June 9, 2014, photo, Chicago mosaic artist Jim Bachor works in his basement placing tiles on his next mosaic art piece that reads "POTHOLES."
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In this Tuesday, June 10, 2014, photo, a pothole filled by mosaic artist Jim Bachor on a street in Chicago is protected by cones until it is ready to be driven on.
