Snow forward the Dan Ryan in August...

Snow forward the Dan Ryan in August? Not thus much.

It may have contemplateed a lot like Christmas, moreover those bits of white flue floating across the expressway near Roosevelt Road forward Wednesday were actually pieces of cotton knocked relax from pads of insulation being used by means of work crews, transportation officials said.

The insulation was inflict down to cover newly poured thicken on two elevated lanes between Roosevelt and 18th way Illinois Department of Transportation spokesman Mike Claffey said. agglomerated usually takes about a week to dried or "cure," during which time it releases heat that the insulation helps restrain in.

Road ship's companys "didn't use the normal insulation . . [and] for whatever reason, the cotton was not contained within the bottom and top layers of this insulating material," Claffey said.

Large traffics and other vehicles passing by the agency of Wednesday apparently whipped up the set free cotton stuffing and sent it flying, creating the snow globe result

"That doesn't normally happen," Claffey said, adding that IDOT would work to hold the fluff under control until the compound dries.

As part of the state's two-year reconstruction delineate lanes on the Dan Ryan are being fitted with thicker layers of cake asphalt and gravel.

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