About 500 opponents of a privatized toll road that would run between Indiana and Illinois packed a meeting in Valparaiso, IN, on Tuesday, Feb. 20.

According to the Northwest Indiana Times, most of the residents who spoke own property that could be in the path of the proposed highway.

According to one of the event organizers, the project would allow "a private, for-profit company (to) evict thousands of Indiana residents from their homes and farms," the Times reported.

The project - proposed by Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels - is being called the "Illiana Expressway" and would connect Interstate 94 near Valparaiso, IN, with Interstate 57 south of Chicago.

In recent days, the Indiana state Senate voted to fast-track the expressway's construction.