Even in a time of belt-tightening and dreams deferred, a long-sought CTA project is in the works, offering the promise of improved transportation and economic rebirth for poorly servedChicago communities.
In the late 1960s, when the CTA Red Line was extended south along the middle of the Dan Ryan Expressway to 95th Street, the plan never was to stop there. Just as the north branch of the Red Line touches Evanston at Howard Street, the goal was to build out the CTA’s longest route to Chicago’s southern border.