Illinois: With six-month extension, federal funding for Quad-Cities to Chicago rail service preserved

By Thomas Geyer, Quad-City Times; June 21, 2019

With the Illinois Department of Transportation and the Iowa Interstate Railroad continuing to negotiate over rail service from Moline to Chicago, $177 million in federal funding was preserved when the Federal Railroad Administration granted a six-month extension for an agreement to be finalized.

With $225 million in state funding set aside for the rail project in the Rebuild Illinois infrastructure bill, the money is ready to get the trains rolling.

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