Illinois Road Conditions

Welcome to the travel and maps section of the idot website, designed to equip you with real-time information and essential resources for planning your trips across illinois. Driving conditions can change very quickly depending on weather, roadway, and traffic challenges, and can cause inconvenience and safety hazards for motorists. Get tips for drivers, updates on closures, information on roadway features, and insights into illinois’ historic bridges.

Tracking traffic fatalities in illinois driving zero fatalities to a reality: We stand committed to reducing deaths on illinois roads. In order to carry out idot's commitment of zero fatalities, it is vital to keep our motorists and workers safe on illinois roadways.

The illinois official highway map is published every other year and is available to the public free of charge. Illinois official highway map pdf. Before traveling, drivers are encouraged to check gettingaroundillinois for continually updated information on winter road conditions, weather radars, road and bridge closures and other traffic.

To report issues related to highways, such as weather-related events and conditions such as ice, snow, flooding and tornadoes, etc., and/or damages caused by other motorists/vehicles, unreported road. Idot uses motor vehicle crash information for a number of critical services including, crash data analyses, safety program design, and roadway engineering design with the ultimate goal of. Review the illinois traffic records coordinating committee’s progress as they identify engineering solutions using crash location characteristics, trends and contributing factors analysis to improve.