{"id":701268,"date":"2010-03-25T16:06:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01310fde213b970c"},"modified":"2010-03-25T16:06:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:06:16","slug":"quinn-aide-named-as-new-tollway-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/701268","title":{"rendered":"Quinn aide named as new tollway chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Breaking News Center<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"asset-body\">\n<p>After more than a year<br \/>\nwithout an official executive director, the Illinois Tollway&#8217;s board today named a key aide to Gov. Pat Quinn as the agency&#8217;s top<br \/>\nadministrator.<\/p>\n<p>Kristi Lafleur, Quinn&#8217;s deputy chief of staff for economic<br \/>\ndevelopment, was named to the $189,000-a-year post.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The top job at the tollway has been filled on an acting basis since<br \/>\nsoon after former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested by federal officials<br \/>\n in December 2008.<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><br \/>\n                  Lafleur is also Quinn&#8217;s point person for development of high-speed<br \/>\nrail. Her selection came from a group of five finalists by a search<br \/>\ncommittee of tollway directors. Her appointment becomes official after a<br \/>\n vote at the April tollway board meeting. <\/p>\n<p>The other candidates included Richard Kwasneski, Pace&#8217;s chairman and<br \/>\ndirector of the Joliet Arsenal Development Authority; Leanne Redden, deputy executive director<br \/>\n for the Regional Transportation Authority and former planner for the<br \/>\ntollway; and Jerry Hurckes, a grant manager for Metra, and former aide<br \/>\nto U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Ill.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Amorello was the only nonlocal candidate. He is former<br \/>\nchairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, but was ousted amid<br \/>\ncontroversy over Boston&#8217;s &quot;Big Dig&quot; program.<\/p>\n<p>For more, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingnews.com\/2010\/03\/quinn-aide-named-as-new-tollway-chief.html\">click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Breaking News Center: After more than a year without an official executive director, the Illinois Tollway&#8217;s board today named a key aide to Gov. Pat Quinn as the agency&#8217;s top administrator. Kristi Lafleur, Quinn&#8217;s deputy chief of staff for economic development, was named to the $189,000-a-year post. The top job at the tollway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2515,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WqM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}