"I'm going tell you about an audacious idea that sounds almost impossible, one that is rooted in dreams about symbolic and literal unity of our nation. It is both a distraction from and answer to our country's problems in 2025, and it relies on an unshakeable faith in humanity and community. It reaches into the future while looking into the past, and stepping foot on it can change a person's life."
"I was in high school in Missouri in the early 2000s when I first learned about high speed rail because there was this vision for a train that could connect my city of St. Louis with Chicago in something like an hour and a half. It would be so fast, people could almost commute between the cities; Cubs/Cardinals games would be wild."
An audacious idea proposes a symbolic and literal unifying public space that both distracts from and addresses national problems in 2025, relying on unshakeable faith in humanity and community. The concept blends future-oriented ambition with historical reflection and promises transformative personal experiences for visitors. Memories of a high school vision for high-speed rail between St. Louis and Chicago underscore a national loss of large-scale public ambition; the envisioned train remains five hours long despite minor improvements. A renewed high-speed project led by Illinois exists in early planning stages, but long-cherished dreams of rapid intercity connections remain unfulfilled.
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