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Yahoo
18-04-2025
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CityLink honors former employee on Passenger Appreciation Day
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — CityLink in Peoria offered free rides on Thursday for Passenger Appreciation Day. The free rides honor former CityLink General Manager, Jerome Lilly, who died unexpectedly 18 years ago. This annual day always lands around this time of year, near Lilly's birthday. You can find a plaque dedicated to Lilly inside the bus station. Dr. ShamRA Robinson said it's all about showing their appreciation for riders and honoring the legacy of their own. 'They even see the flyer today for the passenger appreciation day. And then when they see his face there, they're like, wow, he was really loved by everybody. He meant so much to our community, and just the different things that he would do. Just taking the time to talk to people, even people that he didn't even know, he would just take that time. And he touched the hearts of a lot of people in Peoria,' said Robinson. The lobby at CityLink Station is named after Lilly. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
16-04-2025
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CityLink to offer free rides for annual Passenger Appreciation Day
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — CityLink announced it will provide free rides for its 16th annual Passenger Appreciation Day on Thursday. The free rides will be provided on CityLink fixed-route buses, CityLift paratransit vehicles, and CountyLink rural transportation vehicles, , a CityLink news release stated. The free rides are to honor the former City Link General Manager Jerome Lilly, who died unexpectedly in 2007. The CityLink Transit Center in Downtown Peoria was dedicated to Lilly in 2009. 'We are pleased to continue our tradition of Jerome Lilly Passenger Appreciation Day on April 17,' CityLink General Interim Manager Kofi Kisseh said. 'We want to take this opportunity to thank our passengers for their dedicated support of the public transit services we provide.' CityLink to offer free rides on Veterans Day There will also be a free giveaway for passengers who visit the Transit Center between 8:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on Thursday. The giveaway will be available while supplies last. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
