Minooka pushes back on massive rail project it says will flood village with truck traffic

For the past year, the village of Minooka has pressed Canadian National Railway for one big change to the 900-acre intermodal and warehouse complex it’s planning on the edge of town.

Instead of sending 900,000 diesel trucks a year north through Minooka’s main commercial district to access Interstate 80, the village wants the railroad to send them to a freeway entrance 5½ miles to the southwest.

The state of Illinois built an I-80 entrance ramp there in 2012 in part to keep heavy...