Interstate 74

Uh, not really that far apart.

Royals are on the south side of Indianapolis, and, uh, once you get on I-74, it's only about an hour.

So, uh, should be a great game here tonight, Rob.

Looking forward to it.

Other than splitting traffic flow into two separate spans and adding a pedestrian path, the new bridge is expected to look largely similar to the current bridge.

There's no superstructure basket handle design like the I-74 bridge.

That's because the navigation opening is shorter than the I-74 bridge, Keen said, allowing them to use what's called a plate girder design.

Each span will have two through lanes of traffic, um, that carry motorists beyond the bridge, plus an additional lane for motorists taking exits or on-ramps to or from US 67 in Iowa or Illinois Route 84 on the other side of the river.

The plans also call for redoing the I-80 and I-80 interchange to expand the cloverleaf footprint and replace the southwest leaf, which had a high number of crashes, with an outer direct ramp.

And, uh, we're gonna have a rapidly, uh, clearing sky as we get through the afternoon on Friday as all begins to, uh, clear out, and that's gonna lead to our first real chill of the, uh, fall season as, uh, wind chills will be in the middle 30s for far northern Illinois during the game time of our Friday night lights and in the, uh, low to maybe middle 40s over southern Illinois during the games, uh, as they go into, uh, play on Friday night.

It looks as though our first chance for frost will also come into play all because of the system, and we're looking for areas along I-74 and to the north to experience that frost on Saturday morning.

Areas to the north of I-80 also on Saturday morning, but, uh, that would be a, uh, short freeze on the order of about, uh, three hours and definitely not in the hard freeze category going below 29.

This has been freeze notice, meteorologist Paul Otto from the RFD Radio Network.

And with the lack of a southerly movement to the frontal system as we go through the day today, it's gonna cause a boundary to form later today, which will then be the running board for strong to, uh, isolated severe weather this evening from Carthage to Macomb to Peoria by about bedtime, and that will then continue its path across central Illinois into the late night hours with a half to three-quarters inch of rain from this first of two main events that, uh, look to be coming this way for this week.

And what this initial front will leave behind as it does sink somewhat to the south and east as we go through Wednesday will be a lighter variety of rain, but more importantly, a solid deck of clouds that'll then bridge the deck between, uh, tonight's storm event and then Thursday morning's main event, uh, as, uh, that one will produce between three-quarters and one inch of rain, finding western Illinois between I-80 and I-74, and then traveling again through central Illinois into the western suburbs of Chicago.

And all of this activity will then pass all the way through the state as we get through the rest of Thursday and bring temperatures not only back down to normal, but below normal as a true cold front is then allowed to bring, uh, cold Canadian air in Thursday night and into Friday, and it's gonna be a little bit of a wind fest at that point.

Uh, even by Friday night lights, our wind chills for games in northern parts of the state will be in the middle 30s, while low to middle 40s for wind chills over southern Illinois by the end of the game.

... as a live feed.

Um, this isn't an INDOT camera that's on Interstate 74 that you can look at traffic or that's shown on the news.

And those are out there.

Yeah.