U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was on hand with local officials for a ribbon-cutting at a new Joliet transit center that links, Metra, Pace and Amtrak.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he could “feel the alignment” of city, county, state and federal leaders at the new Joliet Gateway Center, a stop on his Wednesday visit to the Chicago area to discuss President Joe Biden’s bipartisan federal infrastructure bill.
Joined by Gov. J.B. Pritzker and U.S. Rep. Bill Foster, Buttigieg helped officially open the Joliet Gateway Center after a 10-year, $9.7 million face-lift. The transit hub was built around the city’s old Union Station, which was decommissioned in 2014.It is one of the many investments funded in part through Pritzker’s “Rebuild Illinois” plan, an ongoing six-year, $45 billion effort to improve state roads, bridges, rails and public buildings.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg testifies at a Senate subcommittee hearing on the 2023 budget in Washington on April 28, 2022. Foster, a Naperville Democrat who represents a district that includes Joliet and Will County, said increasing mobility, especially “out here in the far suburbs,” will not only ease people’s travels to work, appointments, shopping and restaurants, but also will stimulate the economy.
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