(Source: Associated Press, February 21, 2015)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Governor Bruce Rauner’s proposed state budget would cut $16 million from Illinois’ funding for Amtrak trains that serve downstate areas. Rauner’s proposal would roll the state’s current $42 million Amtrak subsidy back to 2013 levels and cause some reduction in the number of trains running between Chicago and St. Louis and Chicago and Carbondale.
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