GENEVA – Kane County’s government has taken another step toward making Mill Creek and LaFox quieter places to live.

Friday, the Kane County Board’s Transportation Committee recommended approval of a contract with an engineering company to perform final design work on plans to install so-called wayside horns at two railroad crossings in LaFox, near Mill Creek.

The $63,000 contract would be awarded to Hanson Professional Services, of Oak Brook, to oversee the final phases of engineering work for the project. The cost would be paid from a state grant, said Tom Rickert, deputy director at the Kane County Division of Transportation.