More than 200 show up for Town Hall meeting about new Great Lakes Basin railroad plan.
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KINGS – Lana Daily told the crowd at Kings Grade School Thursday night that without working together, stopping a proposed rail line through the area would be very hard to do.
“Without all of us standing up together, it makes it more difficult to fight this,” Daily, of Winnebago County, told a crowd of more than 100 people gathered at an informational meeting about the proposed Great Lakes Transportation company’s plan.
The line would run from Wisconsin, through northern Illinois and into Indiana.
The revised route is now proposed to go through Kings.
Ogle County Board member Tom Smith hosted the event. He said Ogle County is organizing efforts against the proposed rail line a little later than those in Winnebago County.
“We’ve come late to the party, but we can still dance,” he said.