T4America Blog

Our series on local successes continues: Normal, Illinois

In cities, towns and suburbs across the country, local leaders are responding to new economic challenges with innovative plans for their transportation networks, including taxing themselves to make their visions a reality. But they can’t do it alone and need strong federal and state partners to make it work.

This inspiring story from Normal, Illinois that goes live today is one that we’ve been following here for quite some time.

Normal’s story is the third in our ongoing series of stories that illustrate how local communities across the country are casting a vision for transportation investments and often putting their own skin in the game first with local funding while hoping for a strong federal partner to make those plans a reality.

And that’s just what Normal found through the federal TIGER program.

(Don’t miss the short video we produced on Normal’s story, viewable on the full profile page linked below. -Ed.)