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The McLean County coroner has identified the pedestrian who was struck and killed by a passenger train in Normal on Tuesday.
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Normal Police responded around 4:15 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a pedestrian hit by a train near the tracks at Towanda Avenue and Kays Drive. That's where an overpass takes Towanda over the tracks.
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How does society do hard things? In this first part of our new series "Hard Things," WGLT unpacks the generational project that brought faster passenger train service to Illinois.
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Mayor Chris Koos says the atmosphere in Washington, D.C., is unsettled, as the flurry of executive orders seeking to chop federal spending continues.
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A planned annual 2% increase in Town of Normal water rates in each of the next six years may not be enough to maintain adequate fund balances.
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The bids for the long-awaited underpass project beneath the railroad tracks in Uptown Normal have come back. The low bid is $35.16 million.
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The Uptown Station Amtrak stop in Normal is the second busiest in the state with 10 passenger trains a day coming through on the Chicago-to-St. Louis corridor.
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Amtrak trains through Bloomington-Normal are getting later and later. A report of on-time performance during the last budget year shows a four-year decline of trains arriving within a half hour of the scheduled time.
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The Normal Town Council hasn't yet decided how to address the loss of grocery tax revenue included in the new state budget, said Mayor Chris Koos.
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The U.S. Senate voted in January to confirm Normal Mayor Chris Koos' appointment to the Amtrak Board of Directors. Koos said he's already been to his first board meeting since then.