Illinois Fast Track Initiative

A Series of Building Blocks
- A Statewide Plan
- First Things First
- New, High-Performance Trainsets
- Safer Grade Crossings
- Partnerships with Freight Railroads

The Corridors
- Blackhawk
- BNSF
- Hiawatha
- Illinois Central
- Lincoln Heritage
- Rock Island

Core Projects

Financing

How you can help



The Corridors: Illinois Central

Leaders along the Illinois Central railroad corridor (paralleling I-57) are proposing new train service linking their communities with Chicago.

Several overlapping projects are being promoted independently.

The Midwest High Speed Rail Association recommends increasing Amtrak service to six trains a day between Champaign and Chicago as the next step.


 


 
Detailed Analysis

ilCentral.pdf



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