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Homewood train station renovation project now fully funded

by Eric Crump on October 29, 2019

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This rendering shows how the renovated Homewood
Metra station may look. (Provided photo)

When Metra and Amtrak unveiled plans in 2017 for a complete renovation of the Homewood train station, Amtrak’s portion of the project was fully funded. Metra’s was not.

This rendering shows how the
renovated Homewood Metra
station may look.
(Provided photo)

So the future of the project was uncertain. On Oct. 10, the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for…