text: I guess there is no way to really make Amtrak improve by making a onestar review but I think it is awful how expensive it now is to go to Chicago given the quality of the service I live in Stockholm now and was entertaining notions of going back to Champaign to do another degree but reallyit is an isolated place if you do not have a car It should not be a big deal to go to Chicago It should not use up all my money or my patience I have had hour delays on Amtrak Chicago is a major travel hub and the closest major city The fact that it is so difficult to get to hurts the University nnSweden benefits enormously from having fast relatively cheap and hasslefree railway I do not have to sit on a cramped bus next to a McDonalds eating elementary school kid or endure six hour delays on a crappy train to get to places like Oslo and Copenhagen I am bragging now but UIUC needs Amtrak to shape up