From Staff, The Pantagraph; August 6, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin during a Thursday U.S. Senate committee hearing said Normal Mayor Chris Koos “has a vision which I think Amtrak will benefit from.”
Koos, a Democrat, is being nominated to the board of Amtrak, a 10-member panel that sets policy for the National Passenger Rail Corp. The Washington, D.C.-based agency was founded in 1971 and has 18,600 employees and more than 500 destinations.