Others wondered how the Farnsworth Avenue/I-88 tollway entrance and exit ramps will handle increased traffic. The union is opening an automotive-repair training center and expects to have several hundred students. Penn plans to add lanes to Farnsworth and Bilter, according to its website about the plans.Ī representative of a union hall north of the casino site on Farnsworth told one of the planners that it will be more difficult and dangerous for its students to turn in and out. In particular, she is asking the city and the developer to consult with the Rockford Diocese about the effect of increased traffic on Annunciation Catholic Church and School, located at a four-way stop at Church and Molitor. But Gardner told him that since an employee parking lot will be in the rear, she believes workers who live south and west of the casino would use Church to get in, rather than winding around to entrances on Farnsworth.

A traffic engineer said delivery trucks would use the Church entrance. The casino would front Farnsworth, but there would be an entrance in the rear off Church. The casino will be built on land bounded by Church, Bilter Road, and Farnsworth Avenue, north of Corporate Boulevard. 'Because we have a nice, quiet neighborhood.'Ĭhurch is two lanes from Indian Trail Road on the south to Bilter Road on the north. 'I don't want Church Road to turn into another Farnsworth,' said Cathy Gardner, another Country Squire Estates resident. 'Go ahead and build the thing (the casino),' said Tom Gruzauskas, who lives in the Country Squire Estates neighborhood off Church. Residents of a neighborhood off Church Road fear traffic will increase on that road, with people using it as a back way to access the casino. Susan about traffic were on the minds of people who attended an open house Thursday night about the proposed new location of the Hollywood Casino in Aurora. An artist's rendering of what the hotel at the proposed new Hollywood Casino in Aurora could look like was displayed at an open house Thursday night.

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