The news was good back in June that C-U would soon have another economical, fast way to get to Chicago. And it got even better this week when the Guv announced that the new “Saluki” Amtrak train running from Chicago to Carbondale actually will take to the track — as promised — starting on October 30 (tickets are already on sale at amtrak.com).
I say “as promised” because there seems to be a lot of broken ones around here lately. Perhaps “promise” is too strong of a word. Maybe as “expected” is more accurate. It is me, or this community notorious for floating grandiose plans that rarely materialize? Case in point is the park-and-ride daycare mentioned in the previous post. And then there’s the infamous case of the nonexistent Banana Republic at Marketplace Mall. And we all know about the balagan (that’s a great Hebrew word for mess and also is fun to say) that is the Burnham redevelopment project.
What else am I missing?
6 responses so far ↓
gamera // September 27, 2006 at 11:01 pm
Trader Joe’s!
*sigh*
What’s happening with the plan for a hotel downtown? That *really* needs to happen.
lynsalyns // September 28, 2006 at 6:56 am
Good God, woman, are you crazy? Mentioning Banana Republic? Do you want to start a war?
I would also like to know why the mall foodcourt has no restaurant for kiddies. Like, I can’t get a grilled cheese or decent chicken nuggets at the mall? Oy vey! A BK or a Stake N’ Shake would do the trick. Is that so hard?
Sariel // September 28, 2006 at 11:44 am
The world balagan is not exactly Israeli, more of a balagan of its own. See here.
C. // September 28, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Regarding the potential downtown Champaign hotel, there really isn’t that much here, but this appeared very recently: http://www.m2onneil.com/
lbotp // October 4, 2006 at 2:16 pm
I’ll have a post about the downtown hotel later on this week. Guess it will happen.
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