When traveling the Illinois Tollway around the Chicago area, you are sure to notice the 75,000 acres of right-of-way covered with grass, trees, flowers and shrubs. This landscaping not only provides pleasing scenery for the tollway traveler, but also serves to prevent erosion along the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority's 274-mile stretch of roadways. ® For the Tollway Authority's widening project, the Authority specified American Excelsior's Curlex II Double-Sided Erosion Control Blanket. This product satisfied the need for a sturdy ground cover, which would protect the soil and germinating seeds on the Authority's landscape program on this project. Once construction was completed on a tollway span, phase one of the landscaping began. The slope was established, prepared and seed

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