The state of Illinois has awarded several construction firms contracts worth a total of $10.3 million to renovate Union Station at Sixth and Madison streets. The former Illinois Central Railroad depot, built in 1898, once included a 110-foot clock tower, which will be rebuilt. The train station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was most recently an office for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.
The 19,000-square-foot building will be used as a visitor center for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and other area historic sites. State offices will occupy the second floor. Construction is scheduled to end bythe winter of 2007.
This money is really part of the ALPLM project but Union Station likely would have sat empty and deteriorating without it.
UPDATE: Whole story here.
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