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71st Street with Metra Electric Line in the foreground. Photo: Eric Allix Rogers

Frequent and affordable Metra service would improve quality of life on the South Side

By David Zegeye | Sep 23, 2019 | 7 Comments

Fighting between transit agencies will continue to hurt Black and low-income South Siders the most.

Journalists check out the future site of the Belmont Flyover with CTA staffer Chris Bushell, right. The flyover will pass by the white control tower, with the tops of northbound Brown Line trains a bit higher than the top of the tower. Photo: John Greenfield

The CTA is getting ready for RPM, the mother of all Chicago transit projects

By John Greenfield | Sep 10, 2019 | 21 Comments

The project will increase capacity and reliability, and reduce crowding, but it will also include three-year closures of the Lawrence and Berwyn stops.

Dorval Carter Jr., CDOT Commissioner Rebekah Scheinfeld, and Water Burnett with project workers at the station site. Photo: John Greenfield

The New Lake/Damen Green Line Stop Could Transform the Near West Side

By John Greenfield | Apr 25, 2018 | 27 Comments

City officials broke ground on the project today, starting with the reconstruction of a half-mile of Lake Street near the station site.

The clock tower of the Gerber Building has been restored to its Roaring Twenties-era glory. Photo: John Greenfield

Gerber, Baby! Restoration of the 1923 Gerber Building Marks the end of the Wilson Rehab

By John Greenfield | Feb 5, 2018 | 16 Comments

With the recent restoration of the building's clock tower, the city calls the $203 million Wilson station rzenovation a success.