Businesses Want Rail Station Downtown

Grayslake Village won't change plans to build a Metra station a mile north of downtown but businesses fight to change the site.

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August 28, 2002, 9:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Grayslake Village Board says it is too l"te to alter its plans to build a new Metra station a mile north of downtown, business owners in the downtown area plan to continue fighting to keep the station downtown.""We are pretty committed to this," Connie Cominsky, owner of Village Vision downtown, said Wednesday. Cominsky helped gather 1,000 signatures on a petition calling for the commuter train station to be built downtown. "We're not giving up," she said." ... but either is the village board.

Thanks to Nate Parod

FULL STORY: Grayslake stands firm on Metra station site

Thursday, August 22, 2002 in The Chicago Tribune

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