Peoria Station

Everyone makes mistakes when writing books or magazine articles. Whether from typos, bad sources or confusion, history is recorded and repeated imperfectly. But books published by a well-regarded employee of a newspaper can compound mistakes.  The late-Jerry Klein was well-regarded. I have no reason to believe otherwise. He died August 21 at age 90 after a 49-year career with the Peoria Journal Star which began in 1953. When I began daily reading (er, skimming) the newspaper c. 1986, I well remember his movie critiques and generally concurred with those opinion articles he submitted after retirement.  But I wish he (or others who may have assisted him) had done more research on the Rock Island Railroad's Peoria-Chicago rail passenger service. His book, Peoria! , published in 1985, contains the following about this service on Page 162, Its final sad journey came on May 29, 1978. Actually, the last scheduled Rock Island passenger between Peoria and Chicago ran on De