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Illinois bicycle trails get grants

The Pontiac (Ill.) Daily Leader reports the north-central Illinois city of Chenoa has received a $300,000 federal grant for the Chenoa Route 66 Prairie Trail. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., recently made the announcement.

The grant was among $2 million provided to the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) for Illinois Trails under a federal transportation bill for fiscal year 2006. Other money was earmarked for transportation enhancement projects in Illinois, including the Springfield Interurban Trail, Urbana to Danville Trail, Galena River Trail, and Camp Sacajawea Trail (Adams County).

The League of Illinois Bicyclists is hoping to develop a Route 66 bicycle route from Chicago to the Chain of Rocks Bridge that links Illinois and Missouri at St. Louis. You can read more about that plan in an article I posted in September.

Roger 0 comments 1:25 AM