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Town NewsDeteriorating Cicero Streets to Get $2.6 Million FaceliftAt their bi-weekly meeting on Tuesday, January 22, CiceroTown President Larry Dominick and the Town Boardunanimously approved the town’s 2008 Street RehabilitationProgram—a $2.6 million program funded by state motor fueltax (MFT) funds allocated to the Town of Cicero to remediatestreets throughout town that are in significant disrepair.The money will be used to rehabilitate and/or resurface thestreets listed below including: hot-mix asphalt surface removal;curb and gutter removal and replacement; storm sewer lateralreconstruction; frame and grate adjustments; hot-mix asphalt leveling; binder and surface coursepaving; pavement markings and parkway restoration.The 2008 program will rehabilitate the following streets:• 59th Court, from 16th-18th Sts.• 18th Street, from 59th Court to Central Ave.• 59th Court, from 23rd-24th Sts.• 58th Court, from 23-24th Sts.• 22nd Place, from 58th Ave. to Central Ave.• 23rd Place, from Laramie to 50th Ave.• 24th Street, from Austin Blvd. to 58th Ave.• 51st Avenue, from 29th-31st Sts.• 55th Court, from 34th-35th Sts.• 37th Street, from Austin Blvd. to Central Ave.• 57th Court, from 21st-19th Sts.Additionally, the project will fund the placement of speed humps around both Warren Park andSouth Clyde Park (Kolar Field) in order to enhance the safety for children and families who enjoysthose parks by getting motorists to slow down.Dominick noted that each year the town does what it can with the MFT monies it receives fromthe State of Illinois to improve the town’s infrastructure on a piecemeal basis.“I wish I could just snap my fingers and have the money and manpower to fund all of our neededinfrastructure improvements at one time,” said Dominick. “It doesn’t work that way, of course, butwe are methodically addressing the need to improve streets and infrastructure in Cicero. Thoseneighborhoods that we could not get to this year, we will get to in the future.”10