Chicago to be the hub of nine-state, high speed network

heritagehomeschicago.wordpress… — Congress calls for doubling the federal funding provided to Amtrak to about 13.1 billion over five years. A portion of this huge amount (3.4 billion) will be spent toward creating high speed passenger rail corridors and provide rail capital-improvement grants to states. This project would span 3,000 miles across the Mid-west