You still have time to tell the Illinois Tollway board to reject the increases.
The Illinois Tollway board next month could approve the biggest increase in passenger tolls in state history.
You can tell the board here to reject the hike.
The tollway proposes raising passenger tolls by about 45 cents each and commercial tolls by 30%, starting Jan. 1, and adding automatic increases every two years starting in 2029.
The Illinois Policy Institute conservatively estimates that the hikes will cost tollway users an additional $17 billion through 2042.
For a commuter who passes through two tolls a day for 50 weeks, the proposed passenger hike would cost an extra $225 in 2027.
The proposed toll hikes are tied to a capital plan that would fund road-widening, reconstruction, bridge work and congestion relief across interstates 355, 88, 294, 80, 94, 90 and the Route 390/I-490 projects in the area of O’Hare International Airport.
Many of those toll roads have recently seen extended periods of construction.
I-294 remains tied up in Central Tri-State work, I-90 was modernized during the previous capital plan and Route 390/I-490 work has been going on for years.
Tollway revenues are already at record highs, with $1.3 billion more in revenues in 2025 than operating and maintenance expenses. Since 1973 — the year the system was supposed to become free to drivers — the agency has collected more in tolls each year than it needed to operate and maintain the system.
You can tell the Tollway Board to reject the toll hike here.
Comments received by noon Aug. 3 online, at a Tollway customer service center or via U.S. mail will be part of the public record. The next regular board meeting at which the hikes could be approved is Aug. 19.
