By Jerry Nowicki, Capitol News Illinois, The Telegraph; February 26, 2020
SPRINGFIELD — A state lawmaker on Tuesday advanced a bill that would lift a 110-year-old state prohibition of alcohol consumption on trains, saying the existing law is not enforced or obeyed.
“As most people probably don’t realize … this bill was passed in 1911, pre-Prohibition,” Rep. Terra Costa Howard, D-Glen Ellyn, said during a House transportation committee hearing. “And it prohibits the drinking of alcohol on any train, train station; it also requires our engineers to make arrests.”
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