The current CTA Red Line renovation addresses past racial disparities in city construction jobs. But groups are still on the lookout for front companies posing as minority contractors.
Some business owners are worried about a slow summer near the Cermak-Chinatown Red Line stop. But expanded water taxi service may pick up some of the slack.
Monday is the first weekday of the $425 million project to rebuild the line on the city's South Side and that means no trains are running along the 10.2-mile stretch between Cermak-Chinatown and 95th Street.
The Morning Shift gets down to brass tacks on TIFs that may be used for improvements a Navy Pier and McCormick Place. And as the south branch of the Red Line shuts down for the summer, CTA is on hand to answer questions.
If you are of a certain age--and, boy, I am--the early 1970s video of a Dan Ryan Line el train making a 95th Street-to-downtown run is a real trip...back in time.
