The Times, Ottawa, IL 5/13:
Residents across Illinois organize for railroad battle
Kankakee County residents will do what they can to cause the derailment of the proposed Great Lakes Basin Railroad.
Both La Salle and Grundy counties’ boards have passed resolutions opposing the project.
The goal, of at least many of those living or farming in the path of the proposed rail line, is to knock the $8 billion project off the tracks before one rail spike is ever pounded into the ground.
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