Staff Reportnews@thewoodstockindependent.comMetra will add two weekday departures from Woodstock and one arrival as part of a plan to deal with commuter service during the three-year rehabilitation project underway on the […]
Beginning Monday, Aug. 22, Woodstock’s train station will have the south entrance open to the public to accommodate Metra’s morning schedule.According to a news release from Kevin Newton, COO of […]
Metra’s service in Woodstock will return to normal this month – even better than before COVID-19.Whereas three weekday trains now leave the local depot for Chicago before 8 a.m., five […]
Over the past five years, the Woodstock train station has hopefully welcomed a series of tenants that sadly did not result in “happily ever after.”Coffee and sandwich shop Centerville Station, […]
Commission-level work is an important if largely ignored (by the public) function of city government in Woodstock.Volunteer members of more than a dozen advisory commissions do the dirty work in […]
Three months after the more than $200,000 restoration of the Metra station in Woodstock was dedicated during a ribbon-cutting ceremony, the city’s Historic Preservation Commission voted 5-0 to deny the […]
House infrastructure bill has Woodstock rail yardEngineering costs of $4 million to move the rail yard of Metra’s northwest line from Crystal Lake to Woodstock has made the first cut […]
Staff Reportnews@thewoodstockindependent.comEngineering 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 week after visiting […]
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 […]
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