WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
CHICAGO - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today attended a Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) board meeting, where he was presented with a proclamation in recognition of his decades of public service. Before Durbin received the proclamation, he participated in a brief moderated panel with CMAP leaders-Erin Aleman, Executive Director of CMAP; Gerald Bennett, Mayor of Palos Hills, Illinois; and Gia Biagi, Illinois Transportation Secretary and Metropolitan Planning Organization Policy Committee Chair. Durbin raised the success of the Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency (CREATE) Program, a public-private partnership to...