May 19, 2021
Full Amtrak service in Illinois will be returning in July, including the four lines that stop in Galesburg.
Expanded service will begin the week of July 19 but passengers can start reserving tickets this week at Amtrak.com.
The station in Galesburg for example has 1-2 trains going to Chicago daily now, and by July there will be three every day.
Ridership declined about 95 percent in the early days of the pandemic, says Amtrak Public Relations Manager Marc Magliari.
He says that cut the Southwest Chief and California Zephyr back to three trips a week instead of 7, took the Illinois Zephyr from two daily trips to one, and eliminated the Carl Sandburg line entirely.