Amtrak

The DeKalb County Board on Wednesday will have a chance to support an initiative seeking to determine the feasibility of returning a passenger rail service, through Amtrak traveling between Chicago and East Dubuque, to DeKalb County.

City of DeKalb leaders decided to throw their support behind an effort to study the feasibility of reviving the Twin Cities Zephyr Amtrak route from Chicago to East Dubuque, which previously included a stop in DeKalb County.

The Illinois Department of Transportation unveiled a plan on Friday for spending nearly $41 billion in federal, state and local funds over the next six years to repair and upgrade roads, bridges, airports, rail lines and other infrastructure.

A trip from St. Louis to Chicago via Amtrak’s Lincoln Service will be about 15 minutes quicker starting this week due to track upgrades that allow for increased speeds.

After a two-month hiatus Amtrak morning eastbound train #380 and morning westbound train #381 returned to the Princeton schedule on Monday, Jan. 16.

An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck Monday in a remote area of Missouri, killing three people and injuring dozens more as seven rail cars tumbled off the tracks and landed on their sides, officials said.

The Carl Sandburg/Zephyr Amtrak line that stops in Plano to continue two daily roundtrips between Chicago and Quincy after reduced service during the pandemic.

Huntley Village Manager Dave Johnson said the village spent about $50,000 in consulting fees and engineering plans for a rail station that never came to fruition.

Joliet opened its new train station Wednesday to favorable reviews

It won’t be long now, relatively speaking, until the new train station is built in downtown Joliet.

Lisa Dorothy is methodically piecing together what might be one of the largest and most complicated jigsaw puzzles in the world.