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8 Section 2 Chicago Tribune, Thursday, December 22, 19S3 0 Citysuhurhs West Chicago plans old-time rail station Complex sought for test farm -A i- i By Patricia M. Szymczak The City of West Chicago expects to break ground this spring on a $260,000 19th Century-style commuter railroad station that Mayor Eugene Rennels hopes will kick off the rehabbing of the city's central business district. The station, to be opened next fall south of City Hall and near the new Wilson Avenue Bridge, is part of a $1.71 million project that includes a 200-car commuter parking lot. "It's a Christmas gift to the community," Rennels said after the City Council voted unanimously Monday to make a contribution out of the city's capital projects fund in the next fiscal year to start the project. Metra, which operates and manages commuter rail service in northeast Illinois, has budgeted $1.69 million for the station, new selected.

"The exercise at West Chicago is exactly how we like to see it done," Knapton said. "We have a fiscal responsibility to get the best bang for the buck." Metra has a policy that offers funding for a "standard issue" commuter station and asks communities to pay for any "addons." In West Chicago's case, Metra's no-frills station would have cost $235,000, but West Chicago's wish list boosted the price to $330,000. A compromise was struck at $260,000. "What it does is esthetically and architecturally sets the tone for what we want to see in our downtown redevelopment," Rennels said. "It capitalizes on our heritage, which is railroading." West Chicago dates back to 1849, when the tracks for the lighting, track drainage and parking for 200 cars, with West Chicago's additional $25,000 going to alter the architectural style of the depot from modern to vintage 19th Century.

Metra spokesman Chris Knap-ton said he expects the agency to award a construction contract within a month. The current commuter station, a waiting room leased by the Chicago North Western Railway at the West Chicago Community Center, will be shuttered, Knapton said. Plans for the new station went on hold in November when the West Chicago City Council voted against paying an extra $95,000 for a design more elaborate than what was ultimately decided upon, Rennels said. Rennels renegotiated with Metra and a simpler, yet architecturally similar design that shaved $70,000 off the costs was Galena Chicago Union Railroad were laid through downtown. The town was called Junction then.

Opening of the new computer parking lot will free up parking for downtown shoppers and spur more interest among commuters in riding the rails, officials said. "You increase ridership on the railroad when you give commuters a place to leave a car," Knapton said. Average daily ridership at the West Chicago station is just short of the nearly 500 that boarded there in 1979 after having fallen off to nearly nothing in the mid-1980s as more people drove, Knapton said. "We know from tickets being sold in that zone that we have finally re-attained our 1979 levels," Knapton said. Ridership throughout Metra's six-county system has been growing at a rate of 6 to 8 percent a A new train station is "a Christmas gift" for West Chicago, Mayor Eugene Rennels says.

year, he said. Metra budgeted $6.3 million for parking lots in 1988 and has earmarked another $6.4 million in its 1989 budget, Knapton said. Centers For- Cardiac ControP -LBig TALb men By Ann Piccininni Plans for a 306-acre Burr Ridge tract now used as a test farm for agricultural equipment include houses, offices, a business park and retail space, according to a Chicago developer. The site is owned by Case IH, a manufacturer of agricultural and construction equipment For many years, it was a testing ground for International Harvester. "We're going to plan a mixed-use project Right now it's zoned for residential and some assembly.

We feel we can get more value out of the property than what it's already zoned for," Timothy McEnery, project manager for Walsh, Higgins and said Wednesday. When the company's plans were disclosed two weeks ago, McEnery said, the reaction from Burr Ridge officials was "pretty favorable. They had some questions, and there are some things we'll have to work out." "It's been on our comprehensive plan and zoning plan as research zoning," said Burr Ridge Village Manager James Connors. Connors said the development plans were well-received by members of the Village Board and Plan Commission. "There was a general response that some of the uses were acceptable.

There are a lot of questions," Connors said. The company's next step is a hearing with the Plan Commission, he said. McEnery said the development company expects to complete the real estate deal within several weeks. Tentative plans call for building single-family housing on 100 acres, retail operations on IS acres and a business park on 90 acres, he said. No plans have been made for the remaining 100 acres, he said.

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