How much protection do Illinois municipalities have from liability for failing to maintain a dangerous bicycle path?

The most comprehensive laws in the country specifying when a driver may legally pass a bicyclist in a designated no-passing zone was just passed in Illinois.

CBS is reporting that a bicyclist was killed in Des Plaines last night by a hit-and-run driver.  Apparently, the driver was a United Airlines employee driving a company SUV.  At approximately 9:40pm the SUV, allegedly driven by United Airlines worker Daniel Wehr struck a bicyclist, 25 year old Jose Gomez of Des Plaines.  The collision […]