Decades after a former Chicago mayor pledged to extend transit to the city’s far South Side, the federal government is committing to the massive project just before President Joe Biden leaves office.
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Adella Bass, health equity director with the People for Community Recovery environmental organization, stands outside the branch of the Chicago Public Library on the far South Side in the Altgeld Gardens community where she lives and works, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, in Chicago, where the Chicago Transit Authority plans to expand the Red Line train route.
Buildings across from an empty lot where the Chicago Transit Authority plans to expand the Red Line train route sit along South Michigan Avenue, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024, in the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago. Yonah Freemark, a researcher at the Urban Institute, said Trump unsuccessfully encouraged Congress in his first term to pass budgets eliminating funding for some new transit projects that hadn't secured their grant agreements. But it has been practically unheard of for administrations to claw back projects after they won final approval.
“Roseland needs a makeover,” Hicks said. “We lack a pet store. We used to have a theater. Take some of these abandoned buildings and turn them into job opportunities.” Rogers Jones, who for 30 years has run the Youth Peace Center next to the future train station, said he can't wait for the transformation.
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