Accidents involving trains passing work crews, particularly two that caused worker fatalities in 2007, have led to further slowdowns. “It tends to be a one-way ratchet,” Byford said. Each tragedy lowered the speed limit, not always rationally. If safety were an absolute value in transportation policy, the national highway speed limit would be fifteen miles an hour.

The phone number is disconnected, as are the numbers to the now-closed Angelo’s Fresh Markets in Flossmoor and Tinley Park.

Fresh to Order — a Georgia-based chain that specializes in "fresh, fine food, made to order, fast" — has opened its first Northwest Indiana location in a new strip mall in Merrillville.

They broke ground that same year, brandishing novelty guitar-shaped shovels in front of a giant sand sculpture called “Mount Rockmore,” featuring busts of Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Bob Marley, and Jimi Hendrix. Binkowski’s wacky idea had come to life.

The only Toys "R" Us left in the Region is at 2020 E. Lincoln Highway in the Merrillville Plaza across from the Southlake Mall.

Robin and Edward Hed pose with part of the still at their new distillery at 1046 S. Main St. in Pocatello. They plan to open soon and offer hand-crafted gin, rum, whiskey and coffee liqueur.

According to the Regency Centers website, it will occupy 2,338 square feet and replace Meatheads, which closed in January after a four-year run.

The Holden EH wagon belonged to the GM’s Australian arm – GM-Holden. In Australia, they called all their station wagons models as Station Sedans. This wagon’s exquisite long roof can easily fit in a surfboard in the back. Its current owner won this 1964 model on eBay. He first decided to fit in a fresh engine and spick and span the wagon inside out. It was armed with an all-new stoked and injected Holden V8 powerhouse capable of pumping out 390 horsepower and 435 ft-lb of torque. Apart from adding other a host of premium components it also featured a great wide-ranging audio system in the cockpit, killing the space for surfboards.

ACTRESS: It’s art, ultimately, and commerciality still transcends everything. I saw this really famous writer really take it down, “What is this trash? What is this rubbish? I can’t believe people are passing this off as art!” One of her followers responded and said, “Yeah, that’s exactly the same thing they said when photography became big.” Then, you have people inverting this, like Banksy, who took one of his pictures used a computer, essentially, to destroy it. There all of these rotating conversations surrounding computers and art — computers creating art, computers destroying art, computers playing an integral hand in creating art. Young Paint touches all these conversations. I’m also interested in art forensics, as well — working out if something’s fake or not, copyright law in a way. I’ve caught myself in a situation where a big artist has sampled some of my work, but because of how they sampled it, there was no way that I could get them for it.

Goodwin, who would go on to become the park’s CEO, helped Binkowski expand plans for a park, named Fantasy Harbour in recognition of the complex the Ice Castle had belonged to. Thinking that a generic theme would be cheaper than licensing an existing brand, they proposed framing the park around the four seasons. Investors thought this was too plain, so Binkowski countered with plans for a park themed around various Hollywood movies, in partnership with MGM Studios; this, he told me, turned out to be prohibitively expensive.

Big Lots relocated its Merrillville store to 3201 E. Lincoln Highway in Hobart and reopened with a new format, "which is part of a broader initiative to reposition the brand as a community retailer offering trustworthy value and friendly service," the Columbus, Ohio-based retailer said in a press release.

Partly because the ProPaver was so successful, Bomag acquired it and Gilcrest in 2003. Hood left and took a job selling milling machines for Marini America, part of the Fayat Group. The Fayat Group soon bought BOMAG and Hood found himself in 2004 working for BOMAG, where though he worked in a number of positions, he was basically responsible for selling pavers and milling machines.