Mundelein officials have agreed to participate in a study for a proposed suburb-to-suburb commuter rail line that would loop more than 100 miles around the Chicago area from Waukegan through Elgin and to the Indiana border.
The Outer Circumferential Commuter Rail Task Force proposes to study where stations could be built. An earlier phase of the study looked at the feasibility of a commuter line along the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway tracks, which is used by freight trains.
A new commuter railroad has been in discussion for several years, said Assistant Village Administrator Michael Flynn.
Flynn said potential sites in the village are near Butterfield Road where the North Central Line and the EJ&E tracks intersect, or behind a Cub Foods store near U.S. Highway 45.
Mundelein officials decided this week to contribute $2,000 toward the study.
