Warren and Fountain Counties are waiting on making a time zone decision according to the Danville (IL) Commercial News. Just an aside, but I think the fact that I had to go to an Illinois paper to figure out what Fountain and Warren counties were doing speaks volume about where their center of gravity is, time wise. Neither county is expected to make a decision before Friday.
They are correct that the Sept. 16 deadline is not solid, in that time zone petitions on a county-by-county basis are always accepted by the USDOT. But I think if there is a serious desire to be on central time, now is the time for those counties to act. I have no real evidence on this, but I tend to believe that the USDOT will be more permissive about moving the time zone now than it will be in the future.
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