Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com Metra 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 Kennedy Expressway in Chicago. Train service times for Woodstock have been adjusted, effective April 3, as part of Metra’s plan to add 12 […]
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 depot owner MBI, both the east and westside doors will be unlocked between 5:15 a.m. and 9:45 a.m. Monday through Friday. MBI has a […]
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 will head inbound before 8 effective with the new schedule Monday, April 25. That’s one better than the four early inbound trains that Metra […]
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, operated by D.C. Cobb’s owner Dan Hart, closed in early 2016 after a short run with UP’s strict limitations on alcohol sales and denial […]
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 the trenches, which includes vetting petitions and applications for compliance with city ordinances and standards while challenging petitioners and applicants to fully explain their […]
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 project a certificate of appropriateness. Although the five commission members realized the practical futility of their action, they wanted to go on record about how […]
House infrastructure bill has Woodstock rail yard 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 week after visiting Woodstock to talk about the project with city and county officials, U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood announced last week […]
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 week after visiting Woodstock to talk about the project with city and county officials, U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood announced Monday the funds had been included […]
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 on Transportation and Infrastructure. The $4 million request to begin the move of the rail yard from Crystal Lake to Woodstock was among a number […]
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