The Illinois Tollway and Illinois State Police Troop 15 took advantage of the Memorial Day holiday travel weekend to share travel tips and remind parents to protect their children by checking safety seats to ensure they are correctly installed in their vehicles for the summer travel season.

This year, the Illinois Tollway saw nearly 8 million vehicles kick off the summer travel season and drive the Tollway system during the Memorial Day weekend from Friday, May 26, through Tuesday, May 30. The busiest day was Friday, when an estimated 1.8 million drivers used the Tollway system.

“Safety is our top priority and we are committed to doing everything we can to help parents protect their children while they’re traveling on our roads,” said Illinois Tollway Executive Director Cassaundra Rouse. “At our free Kids Identification and Safety Seat events, parents can have their children’s safety seats inspected or installed to ensure their children are traveling safely.”

The Illinois Tollway’s search for the most skilled, talented and qualified job candidates takes its talent acquisition staff to job fairs throughout Northern Illinois, from local hiring events to jobs fairs in the Rockford area, the South Side of Chicago and beyond.

Illinois Tollway Pipeline Partner Liaison Jyoti Rao recently participated in a panel of H.R. recruiters at the workNet DuPage Career Conversation & Hiring Event in Lisle. 

The Illinois Tollway has been recognized as having one of the nation’s best training programs for public safety telecommunications dispatchers.  

The Tollway is one of only six public safety agencies in Illinois to have its dispatch training program certified by the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials, which establishes industry standards for public safety professionals. 

Nationwide, fewer than 1 percent of the nearly 9,000 public safety answering points achieve this honor.

Illinois Tollway roadway electrician Jon Cveticanin spends a lot of his free time walking through suburban cemeteries searching for the graves of military veterans.

When he finds those graves, he doesn’t pay his respects to the fallen veterans with flowers, but with a weed whip and other lawn tools he uses to remove the overgrown grass and weeds that often obscure their headstones.