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After the Illinois Toll Highway Authority spent $480,000 to erect signs touting former Gov. Rod Blagojevich — and still smarting from the controversy — tollway directors on Thursday made sure it won’t happen again.
The directors banned signs with the names or images of public officials or candidates for public office. A sign mentioning anyone else would require approval from the tollway board.Tollway crews covered up the ex-governor’s name on overhead signs at toll plazas last month after the Senate voted to remove Blagojevich from office.
The 32 blue Blagojevich signs were erected in 2004 at a cost of $15,000 each.
Shortly before Pat Quinn took over as governor, he said considered the signs to be symbols of “pompous government.”
–Staff report
