Attention Chicago drivers: After months of closures, heavy traffic and major congestion, your Kennedy Expressway commuter headache may start to ease up this weekend as all four outbound lanes on the busy highway are expected to reopen.

According to the Illinois Department of Transportation, the $169 million rehabilitation on Interstate 90/94 -- which has clogged up lanes from Ontario to the Edens Junction -- is ahead of schedule and "moving into the final stretch," with all mainline lanes back up-and-running by Sunday.

The project was expected to last until at least Thanksgiving, IDOT said. The reopening will beat that deadline.

The lanes will reopen in stages, IDOT says, with lane shifts and closures overnight Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday as the work zone is removed. Earl

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