Blacks shut out of Ryan rehab planning, complaint to feds says

State transportation officials are violating federal guidelines byshutting off African Americans from the planning of the $450 millionreconstruction of the Dan Ryan Expy., a group of South Side residentscharge in a complaint to the U.S. Justice Department.

The Committee to Save the Dan Ryan will file a formal complaintMonday accusing the Illinois Department of Transportation of doinglittle to seriously seek community input for the project, which willpermanently close 10 ramps in black neighborhoods between 43rd and59th streets.

Committee members have said the ramp closures will disrupt trafficpatterns in surrounding neighborhoods and choke the flow of …