Despite impassioned pleas from Crete Township residents and the Will County board members who represent them, the board agreed to seek grant funds for a grade separation on Crete-Monee Road at the site of a proposed intermodal terminal.
Those residing in unincorporated residential neighborhoods adjacent to the proposed terminal viewed the county’s action as “a symbolic vote of Will County wanting the intermodal,” said Tim Piepenbrink, who lives 70 feet from CSX’s property line…Please click here to read Susan DeMar Lafferty’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown.