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Slovenian Women's Union of America

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Slovenian Women's Union (49571798232)
Slovenian Women's Union (49571798232)

Slovenian Union of America (SUA) is an ethnic fraternal benefit and social organization for Slovene immigrants and their descendants in the United States. Founded in 1926 as Slovenska ženska zveza Amerike (Slovenian Women's Union of America), its original purpose was to advocate for the rights of Slovenian women in the United States. Currently the society preserves the traditions, language, and culture of their ancestors. The society is headquartered in Joliet, Illinois, and publishes a magazine called Zarja (The Dawn in English). The society is known as the Slovenian Union of America since 2011, when it became a nonprofit.

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Slovenian Women's Union of America
Clay Street, Joliet

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Slovenian Women's Union and Heritage Museum

Clay Street
60432 Joliet
Illinois, United States
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Joliet Transportation Center
Joliet Transportation Center

The Joliet Transportation Center is a multimodal mass transit center linking passenger bus routes, two Metra commuter lines, and Amtrak passenger trains in the city of Joliet, Illinois. It has replaced Joliet Union Station as the commuter and passenger train station serving Joliet. Union Station ceased to provide train service in September 2014, and groundbreaking for the new station took place late in 2016, with construction beginning shortly afterward. After several delays, the station officially opened to Amtrak and Metra traffic on April 11, 2018. Joliet is 37.2 miles (59.9 km) from Chicago Union Station, the northern terminus of the Heritage Corridor and Amtrak services; and 40.0 miles (64.4 km) from LaSalle Street, the northern terminus of the Rock Island District. It is the only Metra station outside of its Chicago stations where two lines terminate. In Metra's zone-based fare system, Joliet is in zone H on both lines. As of 2018, Joliet is the 51st busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 996 weekday boardings.As of 2022, Joliet is served by 42 Rock Island District trains (21 in each direction) on weekdays, by 21 trains (10 inbound, 11 outbound) on Saturdays, and by 16 trains (eight in each direction) on Sundays and holidays. On weekdays, the station is also served by three inbound Heritage Corridor trains in the morning and three outbound trains in the evening. As of 2022, Amtrak hopes, in the future, to reroute its trains serving Joliet from the CN trackage currently used by both Amtrak and Heritage Corridor trains to travel from here to Chicago Union Station to instead travel via the Rock Island District as part of a number of large-budget projects to improve its operations in the Chicago-area. If this occurs, Amtrak intends to construct a new platform at the Joliet Transportation Center designed to serve Amtrak trains traveling into and out of Chicago on Rock Island District trackage.