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All road maintenance, including snow plowing and street lights, in both unincorporated Homer Township and within the Village of Homer Glen, is provided by the Homer Township Highway Department.  The Village of Homer Glen contracts with Homer Township Highway Department for road services.

Certain streets (i.e. 143rd Street, Bell Road, 159th Street) are under the jurisdiction of the Will County Department of Highways or the Illinois Department of Transportation.

Highway Department

Homer Township Highway Department

14400 W. 151st St.
Homer Glen, IL  60491

Phone (708) 301-0246
Fax (708) 301-0436

Transportation Plan

On December 18, 2007, the Village Board adopted a Transportation Plan. For more information, please contact Village Hall.

Transportation Plan (PDF 4 MB)  Please note that Chapter 8 has been changed.  A revised Chapter 8 will be included on this page soon.

How Does Homer Glen’s Transportation Plan Affect You?

Are you concerned about speeding vehicles in your neighborhood? Have you ever been stuck in a traffic jam?  Are you worried about the congestion on our roadways or the amount of truck traffic in your neighborhood?  Do you enjoy biking, walking, or horse back riding and wish there were more trails in our community?  Are you concerned about air pollution? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then Homer Glens’s Transportation Plan is of importance to you.

With the help of the Village’s new Transportation Plan, Homer Glen will be able to provide a coordinated sustainable system of roadways, pedestrian facilities, recreational pathways, and public transportation service over the next ten years.  The Transportation Plan will assist in the safe and efficient movement of vehicles and pedestrians while ensuring we remain a ‘community and nature…in harmony’.

The Transportation Plan’s objectives demonstrate how Homer Glen will address the communities’ transportation concerns.  Listed below are a few examples:

• Safety
  The Plan evaluates the need for guardrails, street lighting, roadway profiles, and traffic calming measures that will improve safety on our streets.
• Congestion
  The Plan identifies an integrated transportation and land use plan that minimizes congestion and investigates connectivity issues within residential neighborhoods.
• Countryside Character
  The Plan promotes the Core values of Homer Glen’s ‘Green Vision’ by requiring wide, naturally landscaped corridors for major roadways.
• Trail System
  The Plan develops a comprehensive network of multi-use trails and greenways to link residential subdivisions with schools, parks, shopping areas, public facilities, open spaces, forest preserves and other multi-use trails in the area.

2008 Summer Road Re-Surfacing

The following roads within the listed subdivisions have been identified for resurfacing this summer:

Will County Transportation Plan

For information regarding the development of Will County's long-term comprehensive transportation plan click on the link below:

Will County 2030 Transportation Plan

Caton Farm - Bruce Road Study: Proposed Action for New Bridge and Highway

From the Will County website:

"The purpose of the Proposed Action is to provide a transportation system improvement that will address capacity, operational, and safety deficiencies; and satisfy projected 2030 travel demands within a regional corridor extending between Caton Farm Road at U.S. Route 30 and IL Route 7 (159th Street) at Cedar Road. Specifically, the proposed system improvements should accommodate population and employment growth, provide improved system linkage by providing a new bridge over the DesPlaines River, accommodate projected transportation demand, optimize modal interrelationships and increase travel safety in the study area."

"The project corridor is located on the urban fringes between the Chicago and Joliet metropolitan areas. The project corridor has undergone rapid growth including development within existing municipalities, municipal expansion through annexation and infill development.  The project corridor extends a length of approximately 10 miles and encompasses an area of 125 square miles. It is located approximately 30 miles southwest of the City of Chicago and just three miles north of Joliet within northern Will County."