By Dan Carden, Cherokee Tribune & Ledger News; April 29, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS — Gov. Eric Holcomb signed into law Indiana’s new, two-year state budget Monday that includes up to $205 million in additional state funding to improve the South Shore Line connecting Region residents to high-wage Chicago jobs.
That money is on top of the $12 million a year the state is providing to the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority for its share of the cost to extend the commuter rail line from Hammond to Dyer in west Lake County, and to double-track the existing South Shore Line between Gary and Michigan City.