Durbin to tour Rockford, Belvidere on Tuesday

February 18th, 2008 at 03:59pm Chuck Sweeny

U.S. Sen Dick Durbin, D-IL comes to Rockford and Belvidere Tuesday. He’ll stop at Aldeen Park where he’ll inspect the “Alpine dam,” then take a look at the flood-damage area in southeast Rockford. Durbin will also go to City e a signing ceremony for the Keith Creek-Alpine Dam Risk Management Feasibility Study.

That’s not all. The Senate Majority Whip (second in command in the Senate) will tour the Chrysler plant in Belvidere, meet with black leaders at Booker Washington Center, take questions from children at Martin Luther King School, then tour the University of Illinois School of Rural Medicine.

In between stops I hope to grab a few minutes of the senator’s time to talk about the presidential race (he’s a key supporter of Barack Obama) and about his tough talk to freight railroads UP and CN, about operating Amtrak trains on time.

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