Sen. Durbin claims local transportation in Chicago should be ‘national priority’
Monday, April 30, 2012 at 9:11AM 
Chicago Marina in simpler times. ((Photo: Carol M. Highsmith Archive, U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div.; LOC dates collection to 1946.)Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) crowed about shuttling $256 million in federal funds to Chicago for local transportation projects. Durbin’s remarks were included in an official statement from Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office about a $1 billion “Rehabilitation of the City’s Busiest Train Line.”
Durbin said, “The federal government is helping CTA make desperately needed improvements to the Red Line because time and again we've argued that mass transit in Chicago should be a national priority.”
The release from the Democrat mayor’s office praises the funding for “creating the opportunity for Chicagoans to move around the city and get to and from work with ease.”
