Bioenergy park is proposed

ROCHELLE - The Hub City has staked much of its future on the success of its past. The city where 9,500 residents celebrate a rich railroad history every summer over hobo stew at the Railroad Days festival, is building its own municipal rail line and switchyard designed primarily to shuttle agricultural freight around a planned 2,000-acre bioenergy industrial park. The park will sit on the twin intersections of Interstates 39 and 88 and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway and Union Pacific Railroad. Combine that transportation access with sizable investments in municipal utilities, and the picture emerges of a city with the will to grow. Jason Anderson, the city's economic development director, says the various tax incentives available