Editing Springfield, Illinois (section)

==Infrastructure==
[[File:Springfield, IL Union Station (3827212437).jpg|thumb|[[Springfield Union Station (Illinois)|Springfield Union Station]]]]

===Health systems===
There are two Springfield hospitals, [[Memorial Medical Center (Springfield, Illinois)|Memorial Medical Center]] and [[St. John's Hospital (Springfield, Illinois)|St. John's Hospital]]. A third hospital, originally Springfield Community Hospital, and later renamed Doctor's Hospital operated on Springfield's south side until 2003.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/366706/doctors_hospitals_medical_equipment_sold_at_auction/ |title=Doctors Hospital's Medical Equipment Sold at Auction – Health News |publisher=redOrbit |date=January 23, 2006 |access-date=March 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701211745/http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/366706/doctors_hospitals_medical_equipment_sold_at_auction/ |archive-date=July 1, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Kindred Healthcare]] opened a long term [[acute care]] hospital in Springfield in 2010, however, the facility was purchased by Vibra Healthcare in 2013, and was operated by Vibra under the name Vibra Hospital of Springfield<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sj-r.com/x369948792/State-board-OKs-Vibra-s-purchase-of-Kindred-Hospital |title=State board OKs Vibra's purchase of Kindred Hospital |work=The State Journal-Register |location=Springfield, Illinois |date=August 15, 2013 |access-date=March 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215065202/http://www.sj-r.com/x369948792/State-board-OKs-Vibra-s-purchase-of-Kindred-Hospital |archive-date=December 15, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> until it closed in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sj-r.com/news/20190228/vibra-hospital-closure-came-amid-declining-revenues-fate-of-property-uncertain |title=Vibra Hospital closure came amid declining revenues; fate of property uncertain |access-date=July 5, 2020 |archive-date=July 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706151136/https://www.sj-r.com/news/20190228/vibra-hospital-closure-came-amid-declining-revenues-fate-of-property-uncertain |url-status=live }}</ref>

St. John's Hospital is home to the Prairie Heart Institute, which performs more cardiovascular procedures than any other hospital in Illinois.<ref name=over>[http://www.prairieheart.com/overview/ Overview] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010424161515/http://www.prairieheart.com/overview/ |date=April 24, 2001 }}, Prairie Heart Institute, St. John's Hospital. Retrieved August 7, 2011.</ref> The dominant health care providers in the area are SIU HealthCare and Springfield Clinic. The major medical education center in the area is the [[Southern Illinois University School of Medicine]]. The major regional cancer center is the SIU Simmons Cancer Institute.

===Public utilities===
The owner of Lake Springfield – [[City Water, Light & Power]] – supplies electric power generated from the Dallman Power Plants to the city of Springfield and eight surrounding communities. The company also provides these cities and towns with water from the lake. In 2005, ground was broken for a third municipally-owned power plant, which came online in 2009. [[Natural gas]] is provided via [[Ameren|Ameren Illinois]], formerly Central Illinois Light Company (CILCO).<ref name=profileplanning>[http://www.springfield.il.us/Oped/profile.htm Springfield profile] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070104125657/http://www.springfield.il.us/Oped/profile.htm |date=January 4, 2007 }}, Office of Planning & Economic Development, ''City of Springfield''. Retrieved April 6, 2007.</ref>

===Transportation===
[[Interstate 55]] runs from north to south past Springfield, while [[Interstate 72|I-72]], which is concurrent with [[U.S. Route 36 in Illinois|U.S. Route 36]] from the [[Missouri]] state line to [[Decatur, Illinois|Decatur]], runs from east to west.

[[Amtrak]] serves {{amtk|Springfield||Lincoln Service}} daily with its ''[[Lincoln Service]]'' and ''[[Texas Eagle]]'' routes. Service consists of four ''Lincoln Service'' round-trips between {{amtk|Chicago}} and {{amtk|St. Louis}}, and one ''Texas Eagle'' round-trip between {{amtk|San Antonio}} and Chicago. Three days a week, the ''Eagle'' continues on to {{amtk|Los Angeles}}.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/timetables/Illinois-Missouri-Services-Schedule-091317.pdf |title=Amtrak Lincoln Service and Missouri River Runner Timetable |date=September 13, 2017 |website=Amtrak |access-date=November 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325144643/https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/timetables/Illinois-Missouri-Services-Schedule-091317.pdf |archive-date=March 25, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Springfield is served by the following freight railroads: [[Canadian National]], [[Illinois and Midland Railroad]], [[Kansas City Southern Railway|Kansas City Southern]], [[Norfolk Southern]] and [[Union Pacific]]. Springfield is also served by [[Greyhound Lines|Greyhound]] buses at a station on North Dirksen Parkway.

Local mass transportation needs are met by a bus service. The [[Sangamon Mass Transit District]] (SMTD) operates Springfield's bus system.<ref name=SMTD>{{Cite web |url=http://www.smtd.org/ |title=Sangamon Mass Transit District |access-date=January 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106101834/http://www.smtd.org/ |archive-date=January 6, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> The city also lies along historic [[U.S. Route 66|Route 66]].

Border thoroughfare traffic is handled by Veterans Parkway and J. David Jones Parkway on the west side, [[Everett M. Dirksen]] Parkway on the east side, Sangamon Avenue on the north end, and Wabash Avenue, Stanford Avenue, and [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]] Drive on the south end. The far south corridor is served by Toronto and Woodside Roads. Thoroughfare traffic through the heart of the city is provided by a series of one-way streets. Fifth and Sixth Streets serve the bulk of the north–south traffic, with Fourth and Seventh Streets serving additional traffic between North Grand and South Grand Avenues. East–west traffic is handled by Jefferson Street, entering Springfield on the west side from [[Illinois Route 97|IL 97]], and then splitting into a pair of one-way streets at Amos Avenue (Madison eastbound and Jefferson westbound). The two converge again after Eleventh Street to become Clearlake Avenue, which in turn converges into I-72 eastbound just past Dirksen Parkway. Additional east–west one-way streets run through the downtown areas of Springfield, including Monroe, Adams, Washington, and Cook Streets, as well as a stretch of Lawrence Avenue.

[[Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport]] serves the capital city with scheduled passenger jet service to [[O'Hare International Airport|Chicago O'Hare]], [[Fort Myers]] (via the [[Punta Gorda Airport (Florida)|Punta Gorda Airport]]) and [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]].<ref name=Airports>{{cite web |url=http://www.flyspi.com/Flight-Information/Destinations.aspx |title=Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport (SPI) – Springfield, IL |access-date=April 23, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420020149/http://www.flyspi.com/Flight-Information/Destinations.aspx |archive-date=April 20, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Springfield and the surrounding metropolitan area has constructed bike trails and bike lanes on a number of streets. The bike lanes have been the subject of controversy due to the use of "shared bike/car lanes." Currently four main trails exist; two significant paved trails, the [[Interurban Trail (Sangamon County)|Interurban Trail]] and the [[Lost Bridge Trail]], serve Springfield and its suburbs of [[Chatham, Illinois]] and [[Rochester, Illinois]] respectively. The Lost Bridge Trail has been extended further into Springfield by the '''Bunn to Lost Bridge Trail''', which follows a stretch of Ash Street and Taylor Avenue. Plans are to extend it further still to Stanford Avenue.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.springfieldparks.org/parks/bikeTrails/Bunn.aspx |title=Springfield Park District – Bunn to Lost Bridge Trail |website=www.springfieldparks.org |access-date=July 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711040945/http://www.springfieldparks.org/parks/bikeTrails/Bunn.aspx |archive-date=July 11, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> A third trail, the [[Wabash Trail (Sangamon County)|Wabash Trail]], extends westward from the northern end of the [[Interurban Trail (Sangamon County)|Interurban Trail]] toward Parkway Pointe, a regional shopping destination.

The fourth trail is a section, opened in July 2011, of the [[Sangamon Valley Trail]] spanning north to south through the west central part of Sangamon County. The section open as of 2011 extends northward from Centennial Park to Stuart Park.<ref name="Young">{{cite web |url=http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x1431554709/Sangamon-Valley-Trail-officially-opens |title=Sangamon Valley Trail officially opens |access-date=July 29, 2011 |author=Chris Young |work=[[State Journal-Register]] |date=July 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328200714/http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x1431554709/Sangamon-Valley-Trail-officially-opens |archive-date=March 28, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> This trail, if completed in its entirety, will reuse the entire Sangamon County portion of the abandoned [[St. Louis, Peoria and North Western Railway]] railroad line as a trail that will extend from [[Girard, Illinois]], to [[Athens, Illinois]].