Transit & Rail
Metra services these six counties
Cook, DuPage, Will, Lake, Kane and McHenry
These are the busiest state maintained expressway routes in the entire state of Illinois
Kennedy and Dan Ryan
This is the year Gannett Fleming was founded.
This is an enclosure used to block electromagnetic field and is formed by a continuous covering of conductive material.
Faraday Cage or Shield
The "Chicago Plan" engineered in 1909 was designed by?
Daniel Burnham
The CTA's headquarters was located in this building since the agency's inception in 1947 before moving it in 2004 to 555 West Lake Street.
Merchandise Mart
As part of a $45 billion capital plan Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law June 28, the state’s tax on gasoline doubled from to this.
38 cents per gallon – doubling from the 19-cents-per-gallon state tax Illinois drivers have paid to fuel up since 1990
2020 Near Miss Safety Challenge Goal is this.
2500
Many utility lines run underneath the Chicago - water, gas, electric and telephone lines. However, only this system is controlled entirely by the city government.
Water: The Chicago Department of Water Management is responsible for supply and maintenance of freshwater systems and Chicago sewers. Chicago's tap water is mostly sourced from Lake Michigan and is the least expensive of all of the city utilities.
The Willis Tower was known for decades as the tallest building in the world. How many floors are below ground level in this famous skyscraper?
Chicago Union Station is the third-busiest rail terminal in the United States, and Amtrak's overall fourth busiest station. The Station's footprint is this many city blocks.
10 city blocks - Including approach and storage tracks, it covers about nine and a half city blocks (mostly underground, buried beneath streets and skyscrapers)
The famous US highway Route 66 begins in front of this Chicago building
Art Institute of Chicago
The Forces of Change magazine was recently released with many articles. Name one article or client mentioned.
1. Intelligent Notifiction - Cal Water
2. Readying Critical Water Infrastructure - PADEP Pike Creek Dam
3. Imagine 2045 - Miami Dade
4. Rail Stations Reimagined - MTA
5. Ready to Roll - NC DOT & Triangle Tyre
6. Transforming A Garden State Gateway - New Jersey Turnpike
7. Good News - GF
8. It's Good to Be King - King of Prussia Mall
In 2017, the LDP group completed an update for the country’s tallest man-made national monument.
The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri
This was one of the few buildings that did not burn down in the Chicago Fire.
Water Tower
This first elevated rail -- the South Side “L” -- constructed its route through city-owned alleys to avoid the necessary permissions from citizens thereby earning itself the nickname “Alley L” and the ability to provide a straight line of service.
South Side Green Line
This Chicago street is the longest, continuous street running 23.5 miles long.
Western Avenue is famously known as Chicago’s longest street.
These groups in the Diversity & Inclusion Committee helps give a voice to all employees across the firm, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels empowered to share their ideas.
These groups include Connected Women at Gannett Fleming™, Future Generations of Gannett Fleming, and Military Veterans at Gannett Fleming.
This great Chicago engineering achievement recognized as being the largest public earth-moving project ever completed and the only one of it's kind.
Reversal of the Chicago River. A reversal technique was introduced for sanitation reasons to divert the sewage away from Lake Michigan’s water supply.
Chicago had seven mayors between 1955 and 2004, During how many of those 49 years was the mayor's name Daley?
36 years - Richard J. Daley (fondly known as "Da Mare") reigned from 1955 until his death in 1976. His son Richard M. (fondly known as "Richie") was elected in 1989 and remained in office through 2004.
Chicago is known as the United States’ railroad capital, with more major railroads serving the city than any other place in America. Illinois is the only state in which all seven of these Class I railroads operate.
BNSF Railway Co., CSX Transportation, Grand Trunk Corporation (Canadian National’s operations), Kansas City Southern Railway, Norfolk Southern, Soo Line Corporation (Canadian Pacific’s operations), and Union Pacific Railroad
I-Pass debuted in this year on this highway?
1993: I-PASS electronic toll collection debuted in November on the North-South Tollway (I-355).
Year over year, Engineering News-Record recognizes Gannett Fleming among the top 10% of U.S. design firms. Name at least one of our ENR rankings
GF are on the two winning teams at ORD for O'Hare 21 to help CDA surpass these other 5 airports on the busiest airports by passenger traffic.
1.Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport
2. Beijing Capital International
3.Los Angeles International Airport
4. Tokyo Haneda Airport
5.Dubai International Airport
6.O'Hare International Airport
These are the years the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.
1907, 1908, 2016