Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com Engineering costs of $4 million to move the rail yard of Metra’s northwest line from Crystal Lake to Woodstock has made the first cut in Congress. A […]
Cost of engineering to move the rail yard of Metra’s northwest line to Woodstock is among the projects U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood has submitted for consideration by the House Committee […]
Metra officials have ‘long range’ plans for Woodstock development
Woodstock’s recently remodeled Metra depot will get a ribbon-cutting this week and, possibly, a new tenant in the near future – a butcher shop with a deli. The rehabilitation of […]
Expect to see activity pick up this week on about $200,000 in improvements to the Metra depot in Woodstock. A fence went up around the station several weeks ago, but […]
If you boarded a Metra train in Woodstock during the past six months without a ticket to ride, you were in the clear. Union Pacific conductors on the Northwest line […]
If you boarded a Metra train in Woodstock during the past six months without a ticket to ride, you were in the clear. Union Pacific conductors on the Northwest line […]
Woodstock City Council members did all the talking last week during a legally advertised public hearing on what could become a five-year, $50- million street improvement program. But they had […]
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