Losers in the massive $1.5 billion package enacted to avoid the so-called “financial cliff” for mass transit are motorists, mainly those in the suburbs surrounding Chicago.
Through two world wars, the Great Depression and several recessions, the bright white cinder-block building built in 1910 by Gurnee pioneer Rowley McClure has stood the test of time.
Buffalo Grove, Gurnee and Highland Park are not known as sites of seething pools of hateful Americans, as some national Republican leaders tagged the turnouts.
Those same Chicken Littles complaining of the transit sky falling and an uncertain future for public transportation now say their projected deficit has been reduced to about $200 million.
Are agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, who have been scouring the county for undocumented residents these past weeks, here indefinitely?
Since its opening, Naval Station Great Lakes has gone on to become the Navy’s largest training installation and the home of the service’s only “boot camp”.