Rakow Road -- Enjoy New Roadway

The Rakow Road project is complete and we thank all of the residents, businesses and commuters along the corridor for the patience and understanding during construction.

Also, thanks to everyone who kept up with the news using this website, email blasts and/or Twitter feed! 

We started staging traffic on June 8th, 2011 and we opened all lanes to live traffic on November 16th, 2012. 

Over those 527 days, the contractors involved in the project:

• Moved over 243,700 cubic yards of soil and clay (imagine six Washington Monuments worth of dirt, plus a little bit extra for good measure!)
• Poured over 30,000 cubic yards of concrete (and it took over 3,750 concrete mixers to deliver that material to the site!)
• Placed over 34,500 tons of hot-mix asphalt on Rakow alone (which took over 1,700 tractor-trailers to deliver!)
• Installed well over 28,000 feet (5.45 miles!) of storm sewer pipe connecting over 490 catch basins, inlets and manholes
• Thank you to everyone involved for the hard work!

Please enjoy the new roadway; we hope it brings you to and from home and work and shopping and friends safely for many years to come!

If you have any questions about the project or the roadway, please feel free to contact the McHenry County Division of Transportation at 815-334-4960 or mcdot@co.mchenry.il.us.
THANK YOU!